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"The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination."

--Dr. Maria Montessori



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Workshop Wednesday

Okay. I admit it. I am crazy about apples. But I could not pass up this small group idea.

Class Apple Trees
Tear off four sheets of white bulletin board paper and draw tree trunks and branches on them.  Let groups of children work on the trees.  One group paints the trunks, another paints the branches, one group sponges the blossoms, leaves, and apples.  Put them up and label them spring, summer, fall, and winter. Or you could assign a group to each season. Group 1 could paint the trunk, branches, leaves and blossoms for the spring tree, group 2 the summer tree, and so on. This becomes a great display and illustrates not only the seasons of an apple tree but the cooperative spirit of young children.



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