Kindergarden - Plants

Plants: Supplemental Guide 5A | Deciduous Trees 125

Presenting the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

Deciduous Trees

 Show image 8A-1: Winter forest

Do you see any plants in this picture?

What kind of plants do you see?

[Call on two volunteers to answer.]

Most plants that you see around you are either deciduous or

evergreen.

 Show image 8A-2: Apple tree in winter

Can you guess what time of year it is in this picture?

[Call on a student to answer.]

This is a picture of an apple tree in the winter. An apple tree sheds, or

loses, its leaves every year.^ An apple tree is a deciduous tree. During

the wintertime, deciduous trees have bare branches. That means the

branches have no leaves on them.

Deciduous is a tricky word to say because it has four parts. Let’s say

the word together.

[Clap out the four syllables of dih-SIJ-oo-uhs as you say them. Have students

clap as they say the word with you.]

The four parts of the word deciduous can actually help you

remember that deciduous trees change every four seasons: winter,

spring, summer, and fall.

[Clap out the four syllables of dih-SIJ-oo-uhs as you say them. Have students

clap as they say the word with you. Then say each season with a clap: winter,

spring, summer, fall.]

Seasons happen in a cycle, they happen in the same order, over and

over again: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Now that we’ve seen what

an apple tree looks like in the winter, let’s see what it looks like in the

spring.