Trees and Forests - A Preschool Unit of Study

Our latest preschool unit of study has been completed. 

We began with a field trip to the Apple Orchard. 

This was a wonderful 'bridge' between the farm and tree units.

Next, to further help transition from the Farm Unit to the Tree and Forest Unit, we read:

McCrephy's Field, by Christopher A. Myers and Lynne Born Myers

This book relates the story of Joe McCrephy's farm when it is abandoned. 

After 50 years, Joe returns to his previously cultivated farm and finds it is now a forest.

For our Tree and Forest Unit, we read an assortment of picture books including:

Math

Counting on the Woods, by George Ella Lyon

Science

A Tree is a Plant, by Clyde Robert Bulla

A Log's Life, by Wendy Pfeffer

Be a Friend to Trees, by Patricia Lauber

A Forest is Reborn, by James R. Newton

Where Are the Night Animals? by Mary Ann Fraser

Owls, by Gail Gibbons

Robins, by Melvin and Gilda Berger

Spinning Spiders, by Melvin Berger

Literature

The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein

Possum's Harvest Moon, by Anne Hunter

A Tree is Nice, by Janice May Udry

Moon Tree, by Laurie Brown

The Biggest Bear, by Lynd Ward

The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

History

My First Little House Books: Winter Days in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

My First Little House Books: Dance at Grandpa's, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Walden Then and Now: An Alphabetical Tour of Henry Thoreau's Pond, by Michael McCurdy
...If You Lived with the Cherokee, by Peter and Connie Roop (selected portions of this book like homes, travel, tools, and hunting)


built a few log cabins...

added some poems...

Poetry

Trees, by Joyce Kilmer

Trees, by Sara Coleridge

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost

and completed a few art projects...

Autumn Tree Craft

Yarn Spider

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This post has been linked to Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations.