Adventures In Aspen - A Peek At Our Week - 09/02/24 - 09/06/24 - Seasons and Months- The Reason For Seasons

Hello Aspen families!!! We have completed our third week of school and the Aspen classroom has been filled with excitement, learning, and getting to know each other. The Aspen children have begun to settle into their daily/weekly routines and as a result the classroom is a busy and bustling place! The Aspen teachers have had great fun giving lesson presentations while getting to know our newest Aspen students. Returning students have been most helpful modeling classroom expectations, respectful behaviors, and helping their newer classmates while receiving new presentations themselves. The Aspen classroom is becoming a thriving community while exploring the social aspects of the classroom environment and learning new concepts/skills.

This week Aspen learned all about the Seasons and the Months! The Aspen students discovered that there are four seasons that have unique characteristics. Therefore, as a group we learned the names of each season and discussed how we identifying each season! Aspen then discussed that there are twelve months in a year and learned their names as well! At the same time, we also learned the “Reason for Seasons” with our Seasons Experiment! We used our Painted Globe to demonstrate the spinning and rotation of our planet Earth to visually experience why the seasons occur! We learned that during the summer our part of the Earth receives lots of direct sunlight which warms our part of the world so much that it is hot! Then something truly special occurs! As our Earth spins and rotates it will tilt on its axis giving us less direct sunlight! This change in the amount of sunlight in our part if the world causes the temperature to drop slightly giving us the cool temperatures of Fall! Then…our Earth continues to spin and rotate tilting more giving us even less sunlight leading to the super cold and freezing temperatures we experience during the winter. Did you know not every part of our planet experiences four seasons like Ohio? Did you know some places on Earth have only two? A rainy season and a dry season. Did you know that while we are experiencing Summer the southern hemisphere has Winter? The Aspen children learned all of this and more during their exploration of Seasons and Months this week! Ask your child what they discovered!!!

Next week we will be learning about Plants (Trees)! We will take a look at how they grow, learn the parts of a tree, engage in tree classification activities, and explore the trees around us on the playground! See you Monday!