Our amazing preschool teacher, Jennifer, is back home in Michigan this week with her daughter, Chloe, visiting family and enjoying a few much-needed weeks off work. Before she left, she prepped us a few great activities to enjoy with the class in her absence, like this tree project.
In addition to being a fun craft project, which all of our preschoolers love, it was also a lesson in seriation. Seriation is the process of putting objects together in a series, from largest to smallest in this case. Seriation builds on the child's awareness of different attributes. Practice in this area develops math skills.
First, the preschoolers concentrated on gluing the rectangular shapes in order, from shortest to longest to make a Christmas tree. They spread glue on thier Popsicle sticks using a brush. After arranging their rectangle shapes, they used more glue to add decorations.
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