The Shape of Things

1. Take a quick glance through activity 1 in your guide, pages 19-25.

2. Make yourself a pair of binoculars so that you can look more closely at things inside and outside. Try them out!

The Shape of Things

1. Take a quick glance through activity 1 in your guide, pages 19-25.

2. Make yourself a shape necklace as described on page 20.

3. Play “I Spy” as described on page 20.

The Shape of Things

1. Take a quick glance through activity 1 in your guide, pages 19-25.

2. Experiment with tangrams as described on page 24.

Tangram Zoo Animals

Sounds Around 1. Take a quick glance through activity 2 in your guide, pages 26-32. 2. Try the activity “Discovery Table; Matching the Sounds” found on page 30. 3. Can you match the eggs that have the same sound? 4. Can you guess what is inside each egg? Hint: The items are dried flowers, rocks, cotton, bean seeds, cones, and maple seeds.

Get in Touch with Trees

1. Take a quick glance through activity 3 in your guide pages 33-39. 2. Try “Going on a Bear Hunt” on page 35 with your group. 3. Try sorting seeds described in “ Math and Manipulatives” page 37.

Get in Touch with Trees

1. Take a quick glance through activity 3 in your guide pages 33-39.

2. Try “Family and Friends” on page 39 by using your sense of touch in the secret socks.

We All Need Trees

1. Take a quick glance through activity 4 in your guide, pages 40-46. 2. Try “Discovery Table “ on page 45 to chart your reaction to smells.

We All Need Trees Recording Sheet

Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

An Overview of the Seasons

1. Take a quick glance through activity

5 in your guide, pages 49-74.

2. Read Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert as described on page 52. Try making something out of the

3. leaves in this station.

An Overview of the Seasons

1. Take a quick glance through activity

5 in your guide, pages 49-74.

2. Try sorting the conifer branches into prickly and tickly, as described on page 59. What

3. else could you do with the

4. branches?

An Overview of the Seasons

1. Take a quick glance through activity

5 in your guide, pages 49-74.

2. Play a memory game with leaves as described on page 73. First try simply

3. matching, then try matching

4. the leaf with its name.

Music & Literature

Enjoy the music and literature of Early Childhood.

Going Further

1. Read In a Nutshell. 2. Examine the acorns with the magnifying glasses. 3. Using the acorns as math manipulatives, place them on the squirrels thinking about possibilities for mathematics extension. Examples:

• One to one correspondence • Counting • Be creative!