Using the Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy video!
Using the Going Green Song (MP3), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy song!
This tree cut outs activity is a tree-shaped book for kindergarten to 2nd grade. Children color the cover, draw a tree, write about it, and cut out the pages on the bold line.
Using Characters, Settings, and Big Events Worksheet, students draw pictures and write a sentence for each to tell about the story elements in a book.
This happy holidays national holidays activity has 1st-3rd grade students match picture clue cards to ten U.S. holidays and their dates. Answer key included for easy checking.
Using The Giving Tree Worksheet, students compare two characters from a story to determine how they are alike and different.
Hug a tree, plant a tree
First graders learn that Arbor Day is a spring holiday all about planting and caring for trees. In the United States it is celebrated on the last Friday in April. Kids learn what trees give us, like shade, homes for animals, fruit and clean air, and that people can help by planting new ones. The click moment is when they realize one small seed can grow into a tree bigger than their whole school!
Arbor Day is a perfect mix of science, kindness and reading. These moves make it fun and memorable.
Start the day with a catchy song about caring for the earth. Kids pick up the big idea in the chorus, and you will hear them singing it at recess.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withGoing Green Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Read The Giving Tree together and stop to ask, "What did the tree give? What did the boy give back?" Then talk about how we can give back to trees too.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withThe Giving Tree WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →After the read-aloud, kids draw and describe the characters. Thinking about how the tree feels builds both comprehension and a little empathy.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withCharacters The Giving Tree WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Get outside, get crafty and keep the singing going.
ActivitiesKids cut out and decorate their own trees, then write one way trees help us on the trunk.
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SongsSend the song home so families can sing along and talk about going green.
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ActivitiesLearn where Arbor Day fits with the other national holidays across the year.
Open Happy Holidays National Holidays Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), Going Green Song (MP3) and Tree Cut Outs.
Arbor Day is a holiday for planting and taking care of trees. Kids learn why trees matter and often plant a seed or sapling to celebrate.
National Arbor Day in the United States is the last Friday in April. Some states celebrate on a different date that fits their best planting season.
J. Sterling Morton started it in Nebraska in 1872. On that very first Arbor Day, people planted about a million trees!
Plant seeds in a cup, go on a leaf hunt, do bark rubbings with crayons or read The Giving Tree. Each one takes less than 30 minutes.
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