Eat it 2: Electric Boogaloo

Walking down the street with Gertrude while waiting for Grandma to come, she noticed there were little nutty things all over the sidewalk.

“Wazzat?”

“Acorns,” I said. “They are the seeds from that tree.”

“Tree?”

“Yes. The tree grows the acorns on its branches until the acorn gets very fat and falls off. The tree hopes that the acorn will get pushed into the dirt so another tree will grow. Then there will be a baby tree.”

“Baby!”

“Exactly. But what’s really neat is that there are more seeds here than the tree needs. So not only does the tree try to make babies, it also is feeding squirrels and birds.”

On the way back to the house, she saw some cracked and crushed acorns. She was very sad. But, she recovered quickly and started picking up as many acorns as possible.

A bird flew over and Gertrude got excited. She ran up to the tree where the bird landed and held up all the acorns.

“Here birdie,” she yelled. “Here birdie, eat it! Eat it!”

Discuss