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Themes: Trees, Habitats, Nature, Animals, Wood Products, Counting.

Teaching Points: You could have students re-create pieces of this book with their own illustrations and words, just using the patterns of the text. Different groups work on different pieces to create a class book.

The notions of this book alone is fascinating. Children love trees they admire how tall they are and how their leaves change with the season. However, we rarely think about all the different ways trees deliver life into other living creatures including us.

This clever book uses an ecosystem to teach counting and a sense of environmental stewardship.

This is a great book about counting. It uses all of the creatures of the ecosystem of an oak tree as the things to count. In addtion to counting this book could lead into a much larger discussion about the lives tree sustain. ( )