Monthly+Activities

**October:** - Take a class picture with a tree near your school. What kind of tree is it? Students: Draw a picture of the tree - include lots of details! Add sentences to tell about your tree. Can you use words that describe your tree? Teachers: Send class photo, name of school, and 2 or 3 scanned drawings from the class. Feel free to share anything else about your class or school.

**November:** Take another class picture near your tree (we'll look for changes!) Writing Activity - Do a whole class shared writing activity about your tree or the season. As a class you could write a poem, a letter to students using the voice of the tree, or a non-fiction descriptive writing. Have fun - we can't wait to see what each class does! Teachers: Send photo(s) and shared writing. Writing can be sent as a word document, scanned image or PDF.

**December:** Take another class picture near your tree. Students: Look around the TREE Project wiki and learn about other classes! What questions do you have for students at the other schools? Choose at least one class to correspond with and make a list of questions for them. You could ask about the tree, the school, the class or the community. Optional: Make a video message and ask your questions via video. Teachers: Send photo, questions and/or video link. If you created a video, upload the video to youtube or teachertube and send the link.

**January:** Take another class picture near your tree. Students: Read the questions sent from other schools and/or watch their videos. Write the answers to their questions and/or create a video message back to answer the questions. Teachers: Send photo, questions and/or video link. If you created a video, upload the video to youtube or teachertube and send the link.

**February:** Take another class picture near your tree. Students: Make comparisons of your tree in the first photo to the tree this month. What changes do you see in the tree? What changes do you see in the students? What things are the same? Write about what you notice - add illustrations. You could make a Venn Diagram showing the information comparing "Then" and "Now". Teachers: Send photo(s) and scanned student work from 2 or 3 students.

**March:** TBD

**April:** TBD

**May:** TBD