Once upon a time there were some teachers who wanted to share their love of trees with the children.

“Trees are a gift,” Ms. Thomas said.

One teacher showed the children their new “sit spots”.  “Do you remember when Ryan came with his loud chainsaw and cut the log into these for us? “

      

”The logs were from a tree that was leaning too much and needed to come down so that it was safe.  These are a gift from Ryan and that tree.”

The children looked closely and what did they see?

”Saw dust! Circles!”  the children exclaimed and they learned to make rubbings of the tree’s growth rings.  We counted the rings and learned that the tree had lived in the city for 31 years.  The same age as Ms. Orologio! 😉

    

Ms. Jenny brought helicopter seeds, another gift from a tree and we walked across the street to visit some maple trees.

What gifts do you see?

 

How can we give back?  Help the seeds to fly?  How can we do that?  “Like this,” one child said and showed us how she throws it up into the air.  We ran to try it for ourselves!  But, wait!  Look!  What does he see?

   

A worm, and it’s hurt!  What can we do?

And the tree became a blanket (those help us feel better).

Trees are a gift.

Hych’ka, Trees!

And Hych’ka to David and Ryan at Dynamic Tree for sharing trees with us!

Ms. Jenny