Winter has arrived....

This oak tree in our school is over 50 years old. Taylor told us that oak trees don't grow acorns until they are over 50 years old, so that is an interesting fact that we have learnt today! We can easily see the seasonal change as the leaves slowly change colour and then drop gently to the ground. This tree is deciduous - this means that it loses its leaves in Winter and the leaves change colour during the Autumn season. Trees that do not lose their leaves are called evergreen.
The oak tree looks very bare at the moment. It's like a skeleton with only the bones left for us to see.
We will observe how the tree changes once Winter is over and Spring begins....I wonder when the buds will start to grow?
As you can see from this photo, the trunk is very thick and the branches get narrower, the higher they get. It reminds us of the arteries and veins in our own body which we learnt about during Life Education.