Autumn Tree Study

Last year we did a tree study on the huge Sycamore Tree that stands at the bottom of our road. This year, we swapped that tree for a horse chestnut tree at the top of the estate. 

At the start of autumn, we went for a walk up to the tree to check out what it looks like, noticing the autumnal signs that we already knew, including brown leaves and falling conkers.

We took a bag to collect conkers, which Nannie and Pops helped with, picked some leaves to do some rubbings with back at home and played in the leaves.

Then when we went to do our pond study a few weeks later, we went to check out the huge conker tree in the park there and did a little more investigation. We did more rubbings, found loads more conkers and did a drawing of an autumn tree.

It took us far too long to get around to putting our journal page together with all the excitement of The Cub's birthday and then Halloween, but we got around to it eventually. 

We did the actual study right back at the beginning of Autumn, and the page just now at the beginning of November, so it was a nice recap what we found out back then.

Bear did some of the writing himself, and always chooses his pictures and placement etc. We used the leaf rubbing of the horse chestnut leaves and we also cut out his drawing of the autumn tree with its bare branches on the other page.

He is already excited to go back for the winter study which we will do in January after all the Christmas hype has died down. I did Winter twice last year, as I really wanted Bear to see the tree in the snow, but also to understand that it being Winter doesn't always mean that it will be snowy or frosty. So I will probably aim for similar this time around too.

Do you do a tree study? If so, what type of tree are you looking at?

Mama Bear x