The Seasons

 

Description: For this activity, we began by learning about the four seasons and defining characteristics of each. Then, we were given a piece of white construction paper and folded it in half to create a crease that separated the paper into two sides. We were next instructed to draw a tree on each half that looked similar to each other, and pick two seasons that we wanted to focus on. I chose spring and fall. Then we began drawing our seasons we chose in pencil, having one side be spring and one side be fall. We were expected to include least two different characteristics for each season, which we then colored in using two different mediums (I used marker and crayon). After this we used a ruler and marked the paper for each inch, and labeled the marks using skip counting. One side was labeled 1, 3, 5...etc. and the other side was labeled 2, 4, 6...etc. We then took another piece of white construction paper and marked it for each inch, but we did not label this one. Instead, we folded it to look similar to an accordion. When we finished folding that paper, we began to cut the paper we drew our seasons on into strips where we marked it. We then took each strip and glued it to the folded paper going in numerical order, 1, 2, 3...etc. until all the pieces had been glued. This created the effect of begin able to see one season when looking at it from the right, and the other season when looking at it from the left. Finally, we glued our project to a piece of colored construction paper for a background/border and wrote our names on them. 

Extension Activity: For an extension activity to go with this project, students could write a short paragraph describing their project. They could be asked to write about which two characteristics they chose for each season and why those characteristics are unique to that season. Another possible extension activity would be to read a grade-appropriate book about the seasons and have a classroom discussion about each different season before beginning the project. 

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