My Tree Grows
Cold days
cold days
cold days more.
Fall bud dormant,
hard, holding fast
until
cold days
cold days
cold days no more.
Sunshine warms
sunshine warms
sunshine warms spring.
Fall bud bursts
green, growing sprouts
as
Sunshine warms
sunshine warms
sunshine warms spring.
Prompt:
Take time to observe a tree or plant in your area. Write about it. Draw it. Describe it. Paint it. Enjoy it. Watch it all year and repeat your process in a journal about your plant or tree. Here’s an activity that includes writing a poem: Project Learning Tree Poet-Tree
Resources for Learning about Spring Tress
- The Forest Academy: Trees in Spring— what happens in spring to our tree? [downloads of information available]
- phys.org What Makes Leaves Sprout in Spring
This is an interesting article about trees in 2009-2010. However, this site is a “news aggregator,” which means it simply pulls news from elsewhere. That means that you, the reader, must verify its relevance and quality by reviewing the information source and other sources. I did find the professor interviewed here, here, and here. The last link is a link to his academic papers on plants, so it seems the interview is accurate.
- Department of Forestry, Virginia: Download a simple, yet informative PDF of How A Tree Grows
- Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture: How Trees Grow
- United States Forestry Service page on Trees — it includes a pdf of how to plant trees and other pages, including a KIDS page. I also found a Become a Junior Forest Ranger page!
- Project Learning Tree: Some free resources; a great curriculum for science integration; see these family activities on Teaching With I-Trees, In Your Own Backyard, and an How Plants Grow activity. I’ve always loved the Poet -Tree activity
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