Kindergarten Tree Planting at Pingree Park

Field Studies are so much fun for our kindergarten crew.  This year we spent term 3 and 4 studying trees.  Once we became experts we planted our own tree at Pingree Park.

Throughout the months of February, March, April, May, and June students did two expeditions about trees.  We started with Trees are Alive where we explored big ideas that all living things have needs in order to survive and grow.  Through our close look at trees and how living things depend on them, students took on the roles of researcher and scientists to make observations about the natural world.  Our crews researched a tree and shared an informational writing piece at our Celebration of Learning. 

In our final expedition we learned about “Enjoying and Appreciating Trees”.  Students studied the importance of trees to people and their communities. Students learned how different people, both real and imaginary, enjoy and appreciate trees, and they considered how real people and characters have used trees to fill a need in their community.

To close out our research we teamed up with Greening of Detroit for tree planting at Pingree Park.  Each crew planted their own tree and actually used cooperation to bury the tree into the ground!  Now our crew can see their tree whenever they want at their neighborhood park in their community!