Great book to kick off a study of the Spring season: Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale by Sibylle von Olfers
This book explores the seasons and delicately touches upon the circle of life. Beautiful book.
Bookmaking: Use the wonderful book, Our Class is Going Green, created by the Kindergarten students at Oak Park Elementary School in Bartlesville, OK as a guide for creating a class BIG BOOK on "going green."
Patterns from Nature: Use items gathered on a nature walk to make patterns at your Math center. After using the natural materials, have children return the items to the outside where you found them.
Beanstalks in a Paper Bag: Line a decorated paper bag with aluminum foil. Add potting soil and beans seeds. Grow a beanstalk right there in a paper bag! Watch, measure and record the growth cycle of the plants.
Earth Day Pledge: After students watercolor a representation of planet Earth have them trace their hand and paste the handprint on top of their "planet." After reading about Earth Day and discussing all the ways we can take care of Planet Earth, have students write a "pledge" of something that they personally can do to leave our world better than when we found it.
Earth Day Busy Box: Make a memory game with symbols and pictures that represent Earth Day. Great independent game for small groups or pairs of students.
Recycled Junk: Building & Sculpture - Recruit parents to . . . send in their junk! Gather smallish items such as old keys, nuts and bolts, material scraps, old art supplies, brushes, combs without all their teeth, old toothbrushes, etc. Try sending a lunch-sized paper bag home for each student to fill. You'll also need some lids from shoe boxes, old copy paper boxes, egg cartons or flat cardboard. When you have assembled all the supplies, have students glue "junk" onto the cardboard. Spray paint the entire project and . . . junk to ART!
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