Leaf Rubbings

Kindergartners went on a leaf collecting adventure outside of the school at the beginning of class.  Each equipped with a paper sack and criteria for leaves.  They had to be fresh, not crunchy, dry, clean and a full leaf.  Once we got back to the classroom we talked about texture and how to execute texture rubbings.  We discussed how by creating rubbings of these leaves we were documenting nature.  We also reviewed the word overlapping and how we wanted our leaves to do so.

Textured Fantasy Animals

First graders read the book “The Mixed Up Chameleon” by Eric Carle.  We learned the vocabulary word texture and experimented with texture rubbings.  They had to use their texture rubbings to create different animal features and glue them together to make a fantasy animal.