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Tag Archives: trees
It’s so boring around here!
Jungle Gym
Larch Love
Ann ♥’s the larch tree
It was love at first site when I saw this tree in my sister’s neighborhood on a post-Thanksgiving dinner walk last year. It is deciduous and a conifer. It has cones and it loses its needles in the fall which makes for quite a striking sight in the cold months. Continue reading
Happy Trees
I’ve noticed the trees are busy budding all around.
Things seem simple for trees. They need food which they amazingly make for themselves through photosynthesis. So first they make leaves.
We need food too. And like trees we must plan ahead. But we are not capable of making our own food by soaking up the sun. If we are thirsty we can’t stand there with our mouths open waiting for it to rain. Continue reading
Family Photo Fun & Unusual Trees
We ALL got new cameras. The kids were happy with their hand-me-down upgrades! So we thought it would be fun to go for a walk yesterday after school and take some pictures.
It ended up being a short excursion for various reasons but it was interesting to see what caught our individual eyes. My daughter was inspired by the bushes in the neighborhood and I guess not surprisingly my son, cars. Me, I was fascinated by these trees… Continue reading
Teaching fractals
Fractal Heart Tree
With printable activity
Reading my children the book Swirl by Swirl: Spiral in Nature yesterday sparked my interest in fractals. I watched the PBS program Nova: Hunting the Hidden Dimension last night and honestly, fractals might be the hardest concept I have tried to understand! The video does a great job of explaining in layman’s terms. Even so, throughout the program, I vacillated between glimpses of understanding and wonder and confusion bordering on terror! If you are interested in learning about fractals, I highly recommend you watch this program. I found it to be a very fascinating way to spend an hour and a great introduction to fractals! Continue reading
