Or, what happens after a children’s librarian visits the rainforest?
I first explored a trees theme in Wonderworks in the Spring of 2013:
https://cultivatewonder.wordpress.com/category/trees/
Yesterday we revisited the theme with a different twist. On a trip to Costa Rica the previous week, I saw a kapok (ceiba) tree. Of course I’m familiar with Lynne Cherry’s The Great Kapok Tree (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990).
But after seeing a 400 year old kapok tree in person, it took on new meaning. To say it was impressive is an understatement. It was simply an amazing, awe inspiring, wondrous thing.
Here are some pictures that I shared with the children:
I left these pictures BIG because the tree is just so big and majestic itself.
I also read Debbie Miller’s Are Trees Alive? (Walker, 2003) as an introduction to trees and used the songs mentioned in the earlier post about trees.