Introducing Alyssa... Our Class Tree

~ As part of our kindergarten science unit on trees and how they change with the seasons, each class adopted a class tree on or around our playground.  Our class took great pride in our tree and wanted to name her, and so that we did.  After brainstorming a few names, our class voted on "Alyssa".  Her full name is "Alyssa Buddette Maple Tree"! Little did we know when we chose her as our tree what a gift she would be to us; not to mention the whole community!  Take a look at the photos which demonstrate just how much she changed from when we first adopted her until now...  a real beauty with so much to teach us all!  Enjoy...

                                     

The kids had so much fun watching Alyssa go through her autumn changes!  We would go outside periodically and record her changes in our science journals...