Kindergarden - Plants

130 Plants: Supplemental Guide 5B | Deciduous Trees

 Show image 8A-3: Apple tree in spring

1. What do you see in this picture? (a tree)
   
   
   • I see a tree.
   
   
   
   


2. What kind of tree is it? (apple)
   
   
   • I see an apple tree.
   
   
   
   


3. What is on the tree? (blossoms)
   
   
   • I see an apple tree with blossoms.
   
   
   • The apple tree has blossoms.
   
   
   
   


4. What color are the blossoms? (white)
   
   
   • I see an apple tree with white blossoms.
   
   
   • The apple tree has white blossoms.
   
   
   
   


5. In which season do apple trees have white blossoms? (spring)
   
   
   • The apple tree has white blossoms in the spring.
     Extending the Activity
     Choose another image from this lesson and ask questions to prompt the
     class to produce and expand a simple sentence.
   
   
   
   

 Vocabulary Instructional Activity

Word Work: Bare

1. In the read-aloud you heard, “During the wintertime, deciduous trees
   have bare branches.”


2. Say the word bare with me three times.


3. When something is bare, it is not covered. When something is bare, it
   is empty, nothing is in it.


4. A desk that is bare has nothing in it or on it.
   If you are not wearing socks and shoes, your feet are bare.
   A bear without any fur is a bare bear.


5. Tell your partner what you think of when you hear the word bare.
   [Ask two or three students. If necessary, guide and/or rephrase the
   students’ responses: “When I hear the word bare I think of... ”]


6. What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
   Use a Making Choices activity for follow-up. Directions: I am going to
   read some sentences. If I say something that is bare, say, “ is
   bare.” If I say something that is not bare, say, “ is not bare.”
   Remember to answer in complete sentences.