Outdoor Nature Hour...Oak Trees

We began the study of oak trees by taking at the close look at the pin oak tree we planted for Bo when he was a baby.  This tree has been growing for six years now.  Here is a look at the tree when we planted it...

Here is the tree today...

We gathered leaves from the tree and made a bark rub...

Next, we studied the large oak tree by the road.  I'm not sure what kind it is, the leaves look a lot like the pin oak leaves.  Here is Boo making a rubbing of the bark.  We also gathered leaves.

We brought the leaves inside and made leaf rubbings for our nature notebooks.  The boys also picked up several acorns and sketched them as well.

We gathered leaves from a water oak in the edge of our woods.  The boys noticed that the water oaks leave were much smaller than the other varieties.  They thought the pin oak bark seemed much smoother than the bark of the oak that is next to the road.



After we finished our nature journal entries...

Bo sketched his oak tree.  I thought it looked great...