Choose a Tree

Jenny Leeper-Miller Author

06/07/2020 Added

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Help me choose a tree that we can call “our special tree.” We can visit it often, observe it carefully, and enjoy it together. Special times outdoors creates important emotional connections in my brain. Length: 4:26; 2 and older

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[00:00:00.091](lively music)
[00:00:10.840]It's easy for children to connect to nature
[00:00:13.360]and to find those special spaces
[00:00:15.870]that they love to visit over and over again.
[00:00:18.700]Help your child find that special space.
[00:00:22.191]I see tree! Hi, tree.
[00:00:26.643]I love tree. Yeah.
[00:00:30.224]Hi, leaves. Hi, leaves.
[00:00:34.573](child grunts)
[00:00:36.980]You're putting a leaf on the tree.
[00:00:38.662]Whoa! Whoa!
[00:00:40.920]Wooo.
[00:00:42.357]Wooo.
[00:00:46.973]Wooo.
[00:00:48.180]You're going around the tree.
[00:00:50.431]Around the tree.
[00:00:53.445]Around the tree.
[00:00:55.242]Around tree.
[00:00:56.380]Yeah, Hug! Hi, tree!
[00:00:59.157]Oh, good job.
[00:01:07.162](child mumbles) I won, mommy.
[00:01:08.445]You found it.
[00:01:11.079](child grunts) I push, mommy.
[00:01:13.939]Is it strong?
[00:01:16.117](child grunts) I strong.
[00:01:18.474]So strong.
[00:01:19.906]I got it. I got it.
[00:01:23.205]You got it.
[00:01:25.988]Where's Willa?
[00:01:27.474]Peek a boo!
[00:01:32.104]Can you go on the other side of your tree?
[00:01:35.023]Ugh! I strong, mommy.
[00:01:37.640]Where's Willa?
[00:01:40.890](Willa babbling)
[00:01:41.760]Peek a boo!
[00:01:44.278]Tree.
[00:01:45.111]♪ Ring around the tree ♪
[00:01:51.229]Peek a boo!
[00:01:52.866]I found me!
[00:01:54.270]I found you!
[00:01:56.128]Yay, mommy!
[00:01:57.575]Yay!
[00:01:58.759]Tree, I found it.
[00:02:01.222]Mmm hmm.
[00:02:02.347]Tree. Tree.
[00:02:04.242]I can, mommy!
[00:02:05.630]I know, it doesn't move.
[00:02:07.160]Does it?
[00:02:09.070]It's strong.
[00:02:11.970]Can you find a big tree?
[00:02:14.020]Where's our big tree?
[00:02:16.418]Doo.
[00:02:17.550]Can you go touch the big tree?
[00:02:20.973](Willa laughs) I find tree.
[00:02:23.234]I find it!
[00:02:25.019]You found it!
[00:02:27.175]I found tree.
[00:02:28.720]You found the tree.
[00:02:30.674](Willa mumbles)
[00:02:31.890]Oh, so tall!
[00:02:35.591]I get tree.
[00:02:36.433]There's the little tree.
[00:02:39.042](Willa mumbles)
[00:02:42.093](jazz music)
[00:02:48.243]Little tree.
[00:02:52.330]Dexter.
[00:02:55.250]Oh my goodness, look at that big tree.
[00:02:56.580]Do your arms fit around it?
[00:02:58.050]No. No.
[00:03:01.260]How did that tree grow so big?
[00:03:05.510]What did it need to grow?
[00:03:07.910]Water? Yeah.
[00:03:09.682]And the sunlight.
[00:03:10.845]Sunlight, you're right.
[00:03:13.787]Ooo, how come this is your favorite tree?
[00:03:19.239](bird chirping)
[00:03:20.242]Because,
[00:03:22.727]it's big.
[00:03:25.607]And there's squirrels on it.
[00:03:29.520]And there's irises by it.
[00:03:35.564]Gotta be in the sunlight.
[00:03:37.080]How old do you think this tree is?
[00:03:39.130]Old. Old.
[00:03:41.270]How many years?
[00:03:43.270]I think two thousand hundred.
[00:03:46.605]That's a big number.
[00:03:51.700]This is your invitation to get outside
[00:03:55.550]and hug a tree.
[00:03:57.210]Children will find a special plant or a special tree
[00:04:01.620]and make that connection to the plant.
[00:04:05.280]They might even talk to it.
[00:04:07.710]They will feel so excited to watch the adults
[00:04:11.600]do similar actions of what they find
[00:04:14.370]so exciting to do.
[00:04:16.300]So head on outside and hug
[00:04:18.810]give a tree a hug.
[00:04:21.270](jazz music)

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