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Comparing different types of trees and tree parts provides opportunities for supporting your child's emerging number skills and math vocabulary. Draw your child's attention to trees in and around the neighborhood. Make a collection of fallen leaves, flowers, cones or nuts from several different trees and compare them. How many different leaf shapes can you find? What's the biggest leaf? What's the smallest? Investigate any cones, pods, fruit, and nuts you've found. What do you think is inside? How could you find out? Can you figure out which tree the fallen items came from? Gently remind your child not to pull or break any parts from the tree.

Content Area:
Plants

Location:
Neighborhood

Story:
An Inconvenient Tooth, Part 2

Recommended Books:
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter

The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan K. Mitchell

Explore with Chirp to find different kinds of shapes all around you in the game Chirp Shapes Up.