How Trees Help Us Writing Craft

Talk first about what trees give us, such as shade, food, homes for birds and clean air. Children write one idea on each cluster, color and cut, then glue the clusters on the branches for a spring display.

Three pages after the cover. The first page has four leaf clusters with write-on lines, one for each way trees help us. The second page is a bare tree with How Trees Help Us on the trunk, and the third is the same tree with a blank trunk and the words My title, so children can write their own.

Yes. We made it for 1st Grade to 2nd Grade holiday activities, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

4 printable resources, all free to preview. There are 20 Arbor Day resources in all, from Preschool to 5th Grade, gathered on our Arbor Day activities page. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 1st Grade to 2nd Grade students, roughly ages 6-8. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Nothing here assumes a classroom of 25, so they work the same one-to-one at the kitchen table as they do in a 1st Grade to 2nd Grade classroom, a learning center, or a tutoring session.