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The
day of the tree
-The joined hand tree-
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Collaboration
- Caring
- Defence
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The teacher will say to the children:
Today
we are going to build a tree, which will be formed with all our hands.
The leaves symbolise our hands; hands that are joined and that work
together to protect the environment.
These are the steps to follow:
- Pick
up some dried branches or ask the children to bring them from home.
- Prepare
cardboard cylinders for the children to colour them.
- Once
the cylinders are coloured, put them one beside each other, forming
a block. If they have different diameters, place them from the one
that has the widest diameter to the one with the shortest one.
- Make
holes in the cylinders and introduce the dried branches or some sticks
trough them, as if they were the branches of a tree.
- Give
to each child the silhouettes of the leaves (click
here to open in a new window).
- Put
the tree in a cardboard box as if it was a flowerpot.
- Write
the name of the child who has made the leaf on it.
The children are split up into small groups. Each group
will colour the cylinders in brown (they will form the trunk of the
tree). They will also colour the leaves (they can print them with their
hands, using watercolours) and cut them up. Finally, they will glue
the leaves on the tree branches, folding them by the central part.
Each child will colour a section of the flowerpot in
a different colour to decorate it.
When all the process is finished, everybody will form
a circle around the tree, hold their hands and sing a song to celebrate
the creation of the day: the day of the joined hands tree.
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