Talking Trees

What if Redwood trees could talk?  Here are some of the things they might say.

Redwood Poetry 2014

Redwoods

A little seed rising to be a full grown Redwood

slowly blooming to the beautiful sky

by water, air, and sun

in the foggy woods

it leaves by decomposing slowly.

By Alicia

Redwoods
A seed softly falls on the ground growing.
The seed sprouts on there ground.
            it   blooms from the sun beautiful
It is in the dark foggy forest
the wind blows it away and lands some where.

By Amira

THE REDWOODS

A seed falls in the ground
It rises for the sun
It grows taller every time
It is in the beautiful forests of Santa Cruz

It decomposes slowly slowly slowly slowly

By Gabriel

My "Big Day" Poem

REDWOODS OCEAN TRIP

THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT IT

 WAS AWESOME

IT WAS AWESOME BECAUSE IT WAS

 BEAUTFUL SIGHT

By Kyle

My "Big Day" Poem

that day was very big

we went to the great 

Redwoods

love that day forever

by Sarah

REDWOODS

first it is small then the tree gets bigger then BIGGER 

it grows and grows

grows from the sun

redwoods

it falls.

By Dayanara

Redwood Art Video

Here is a video of our redwood art

Redwoods
A tiny seed falls softly to the forest floor
It rises to the sky slowly reaching for the sun
passing time
in the misty foggy forest on the California coast
slowly decomposing taking its time.

Redwoods at Empire Elementary

Today our class measured the redwoods that were planted in 2007.  We measured them using tape measures.  We found out that the temperature in the trees is different from on the grass, it was 20 degrees cooler.  We used our fists to measure the height.  We found out how tall they were.  Our shortest tree measured 17 feet.  Our tallest tree was 28 feet.  Two trees measured  22 feet 10 inches, one tree was 23 feet, finally the last tree was 20 feet 9 inches.

The trees in 2008 when we planted them.

Here is what they look like today.