City of San Bruno San Bruno Library Livestreamed Storytimes, 3 Dec 2020

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From YouTube: San Bruno Library Livestreaming Storytime December 3. 2020

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Welcome to San Bruno Public Library Storytime on Thursday December 3, 2020 with Miss Barbara! Our next storytime will be Tuesday December 8, 2020 right here on the City of San Bruno YouTube Channel. If you subscribe, you will be notified when we go live, or you can always find the link to our next storytime at storytime.sanbrunolibrary.org, and many eResources for kids at kids.sanbrunolibrary.org! This storytime is intended for the private use of this audience only and is not for commercial distribution.

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Good morning, everyone so.

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Nice to see you um I'm miss barbara and I'm here for live streaming story time at the san bruno public library on this day december 3rd. um It's really good to see you this morning, we're going to have some.

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Great stories about trees and um think about the beauty, that's around us, and I also want to invite you to check out the winter reading website at winter.sanbrunolibrary.org.

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There's a reading log there and a whole lot of programs happening this month. We have an art program from the young museum for adults this afternoon at four, and you can sign up for that at appointment.sanbrunolibrary.org.

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Well, let's get started with story time.

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We're glad you're here today we're glad you're here today, hi ho the mario we're glad you're here today. We're glad you're here today we're glad you're here today, hi ho the mario we're glad you're here today. Yay all.

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Right, let's start out with this book, a leaf can be by laura purdy salas illustrations by violetta and it's published by millbrook press in minneapolis. A leaf is a leaf.

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It bursts out each spring when sunny days linger and orioles sing.

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What can a leaf be? A leaf can be a soft cradle, a water ladle, a sun taker.

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Topper, a rain stopper.

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A skin welter, oh itchy, leaves leaves of three, let it be bat, shelter.

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Shade spiller mouth filler.

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Air, cleaner and earth.

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Greener, a leaf is a leaf a bit of a tree, but when cool days come chasing, it can also be a wind rider.

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A pile grower and a hill blower do you have trees that have changed their leaves in your neighborhood, maybe they've lost their leaves already or they've changed. Color a frost catcher, a moth matcher.

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There's the moth hiding in the leaves.

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A fine healer, some people make medicines from different kinds of leaves. It looks like there's some chamomile here. Maybe you drink chamomile tea at your house, a snake concealer hiding from the hawk.

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A ground warmer, a nest former.

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A leaf is a leaf. A bit of a tree now go and discover what else it can be.

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Okay, I'm gonna get my scarf out here or you know, if you're wearing a scarf, you can use that I'm going to use this bright orange one.

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Going to do the leaves in the air go up and down, and that goes to the tune of the wheels on the bus. So you can get your scarf and wave it up and down or use your hands to go up and down.

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So the leaves in the air go up and down up and down up and down the leaves in the air go up and down all around the town.

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The leaves in the air twirl round and round round and round round and round the leaves in the air twirl round and round all around the town.

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The leaves in the air fall gently down gently down gently down the leaves in the air fall gently down all around the town, yay very good.

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Okay, I'm gonna read another book about trees.

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This is about my favorite kind of tree. This is called redwoods and it's by jason chin and he did the pictures and the words of this beautiful book. It's by neil porter, it's neil porter book by roaring, brook press redwoods. Have you been to the redwoods? Do you know that we have quite a lot of redwoods in san mateo county? That's why our county seat is called redwood city right, so several of our san mateo county parks have beautiful redwoods in them and they're.

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Just coming back from the fires that we had last summer, the redwoods are still there they're re-sprouting the parts that have burned. They live a long time which we'll find out about right here.

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That looks like the f market. No, the f market isn't underground. It looks kind of like bart.

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I think you can ride a bart to the redwoods in oakland at redwood regional park in oakland. The coast redwoods are among the oldest trees in the world.

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Their ancestors lived about 165 million years ago during the jurassic.

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They are the tallest living things on the planet. Redwoods regularly grow to be more than 200 feet, tall kind of hard to imagine that 200 feet tall.

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How tall is that? How tall are you?

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A redwood trunk can be 29 feet in diameter at its base. That's so wide that a tunnel can be cut in it. Big enough for a car to drive through.

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Amazingly such a tall tree starts from a seed about the size of a tomato seed. So next time you eat your tomatoes, take a look at the seeds and see how big they are.

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A one inch long cone that houses the seed falls to the ground, and if the conditions are right, the tree will sprout with enough light and water. A redwood sapling can grow fast up to two feet per.

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Redwoods also grow from other redwoods when a tree falls or is cut down. New trees can sprout from big round masses along its trunk called burls.

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Often, several trees will grow from the burrells on one stump. If you see a ring of redwoods in the forest, they probably all sprouted from the same stump.

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One reason that redwoods are able to live for so long and grow to be so tall is that they are very good at defending themselves. Their wood contains a lot of tannin, a chemical that protects them from fungal infections and insect infant stations. Redwoods are also well suited to live through.

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If there is a fire, their extremely thick bark shields them from the heat, just like the heat resistant tiles on the space shuttle, their branches don't start until very high up 200 feet in some cases, which also helps protect them from fire. Since most forest fires can't reach their needles, if a fire penetrates a redwoods bark, the tree can still live.

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In some cases a huge portion of the center of the trunk has been burned out, but the tree keeps on growing in many ways. Fires actually help redwoods by clearing out other plants that would otherwise compete for resources like water and soil.

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Coast redwoods need a lot of water to grow as tall as they do and in the area in northern california, where they live. It's perfect, it's a rain forest. The air is cool and damp, and the land is often covered in thick fog. It takes a long time for water to travel all the way from the roots to the top of a redwood and the fog helps the trees by preventing them from losing moisture to evaporation.

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In addition, the needles of a redwood can absorb moisture straight from the air in the summer when there is much less rainfall, redwoods have an ingenious way of collecting water. They make their own rain when the fog rolls in it condenses on the redwoods needles and whatever moisture, isn't absorbed then falls to the ground to be soaked up by the tree's roots. Other plants that live at the base of a redwood tree use this artificial rain as well. So not only do the redwoods water themselves, they water, all the plants around them.

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You might notice, if you, if you have a redwood in your neighborhood, you might notice this happening and also happens under a cypress tree. They can do the same thing.

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The branches of a redwood are called the crown or canopy and start very high up in the trunk. This is this part is really cool to study redwood crowns, that's the top of the redwood scientists have to climb into them. This is not easy, because the trees are so tall. What do they use a bow and arrow to launch a rope over the branches? So it goes up up high over the branch.

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When the rope is secure, they pull themselves up. It is very dangerous work.

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When the needles fall off a redwood, they decay and turn to soil and redwoods are so big that this soil often collects in the trees themselves.

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Soil that collects in the branches of a tree or in crevices on its trunk provide a home for other plants plants that grow on redwoods are called epiphytes. The most common epiphyte found in redwoods are ferns.

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In one tree, researchers found masses of ferns estimated to weigh more than sixteen hundred pounds, that's heavier than a full-grown polar bear, and if you can't make it down to the redwoods right now, you might notice on skyline boulevard, there's some cypress trees that have ferns growing in them right up by the oil changers. On top of sneak.

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No top of westboro by sharp park. Road ferns are not the only plants that make their homes and redwoods mosses, fun. Fungi, bushes and even trees grow in the redwood. Canopy researchers have found a wide variety of trees high above the ground, including hemlocks, bruises, furs, oaks and california. Bays in one redwood. Researchers found a california bay tree growing out of a knot, hole 300 feet above the ground.

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In addition to plant life, scientists have found many animals living in the redwood canopy, including flying squirrels, beetles, earthworms, centipedes, spiders, salamanders and yellow banana slugs. My favorite some animals like red tree bowls live their whole lives in the tree. Drop tree tops and never see the ground.

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Many birds live in the tops of redwoods, including bald eagles ospreys and woodpeckers. The marbled muralette and the northern spotted owl live almost exclusively in the oldest redwood trees and both are endangered species.

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When a redwood is injured, the tree will often sprout new trunks that look like miniature versions of the tree itself. If a branch is damaged, a new trunk will grow straight up from the top of the damaged branch. Sometimes more than one new trunk will sprout researchers found one tree with more than 200 trunks. In it, there was a forest of redwoods growing on top of a single tree.

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The crown of a redwood can be very complex as the tree grows, its main branches and the branches of its new trunks crisscross and run into each other forming a maze of growth. The crown can become so dense that from its interior, you can't see the ground or the sky.

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Researchers have even gotten lost, while exploring the crown of the tree. The largest of all redwoods are in a class of their own called titans. For a long time, the record holder of the for the tallest tree in the world was stratosphere, giant measuring a whopping 370 feet.

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But that record was broken in the summer of 2006 when researchers discovered hyperion a giant coast, redwood rising 379 feet from the ground and it's still growing.

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That is taller than the statue of liberty.

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It's taller than a 30-story skyscraper. What if the statue of liberty was in the forest or the redwood tree was in the city.

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I would like to see that it's so tall that if we it were introduced to a city skyline, it would fit right.

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And then what's he doing time to go? Oh he forgot his book, but someone found it.

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And there she is in the redwoods, I hope you'll get to see the redwood someday.

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All right, I have another leaf song to do with our scarves. So if you have a piece of paper or you can float your hands in the air or maybe you have a scarf that you wear.

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We're gonna ask the wind wind a wind, a wind. I say what are you blowing away today.

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Window window wind, I say: what are you blowing away today and the wind answers scarves, I'm blowing the scarves away scarves. Oh scarves, oh scarves, I say I am blowing the scarves away all right. What else does the wind blow the leaves right?

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Let's ask the wind: what is blowing wind, a wind, a wind? I say what are you blowing away today?

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All right here comes, the leaves leaves, oh leaves, oh leaves. I say I am blowing the leaves away very good yay. What will you ask at the wind?

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That's what I want to know tell me you can email us at sbpl. Plsinfo.Org. Tell me what you see blowing away in your neighborhood.

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The next book I have for us is our trees.

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Alive by debbie miller, illustrations by stacy schuett and it's published by walker and company, our trees.

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Alive long roots wiggle through soil, they gather water and minerals that trees need to grow roots anchor a tree like your feet, help you to stand.

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Sturdy trunks stand short and tall. A trunk supports the body of a tree like your legs support your body.

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Branches hold animals, the nests of birds swings and tree houses. They sway gently in the wind like a mother's arms, rocking a baby.

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Bark is dark or light or smooth or thick or thin. Just like people's skin bark protects the inside of a tree from harsh weather and insects like your skin, protects.

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You, the crown of a tree, reaches for the sky and gathers sunlight. A crown is the top of the tree like your head is the top of your body. The branches and leaves of a large crown, give you lots of shade on a hot summer day,.

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Leaves breathe for the tree, trees need air, just like you need air instead of using noses and lungs leaves breathe through thousands of tiny pores known as stomata leaves flutter in the breeze. Like your hair blows in the wind, and if you have a magnifying glass or a microscope, you can put a leaf under it and see these little circles. Let's see they are.

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Sticky sap travels through small tubes inside the tree between the roots and the leaves without sap. The tree could not live just like your body could not live without blood. Look at the veins in a leaf and compare them to the veins. In your hand, some tree sap is harvested by people. Do you know what it makes.

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Maple syrup trees, grow, flowers of all shapes and sizes of bright and soft colors. A pretty flower can attract insects and birds. Just like your smiling face can attract a new friend animals feed on the nectar and pollen of the flowers. They help spread the pollen so that trees can make seeds and grow fruits.

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You recognize bananas, that's a that's a cocoa fruit and.

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Plumerias to make filets.

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And to smell good, some seeds are tiny and fluffy with the wind, others are protected inside their fruit. The coconut tree grows the largest seed on earth. Seeds sprout and become saplings then grow up to be trees. Just like babies become children and then grow up to be adults.

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Some trees die because of fires, disease or storm damage. Many trees are cut down by people for their wood, but some trees live to be very, very old. Just like some people live more than a hundred years.

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During winter, some trees have bare limbs and twigs that lace could the cold sky. This is the time when many trees rest without their leaves, trees. Rest too, just like you when spring comes the trees awaken from their winter's rest, leaf buds swell on the branches, cherry trees blossom with more sunshine. The trees burst with new life. Just like you burst out the door with your friends to play and celebrate spring.

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While you picnic under a tree, the forest has a picnic of its own. The sun helps the leaves make food, the rain brings drink and the wind brings music to the forest.

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And then, if you were to borrow this book, there's all this information about the trees that you see in this book. They're really famous trees from around the world types of trees, arches alive and you can um miss susan- makes a book list every month for all the books that we feature during story time and you can find that on our storytime.san rental library.org webpage as well.

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So you can click on that link and you can place a hold on the books that we read in story time and others that are related to the subjects that we talk about all right.

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Let's clap our hands as quickly as we can and then, as slowly as you can clap, clap, clap your hands as slowly as you can come, come clap your hands as quickly as you can. Oh, I realize I said that backwards.

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Didn't I, let's do it again, clap clap, clap your hands as slowly as you can cook up your hands as quickly as you can roll roll roll your hands as slowly as you can roll roll your hands as quickly as you can shake shake shake your hands as slowly as you can shake shake shake your hands as quickly as you can clap, clap, clap your hands as slowly as you can cough clap your hands as quickly as you can very good good job.

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Okay, let's sing our rainbow song.

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When I look outside my window, there's a world of color, I see fiddle dee dee outside my window. There's a world of color. I see rainbow rainbow rainbow around me rainbow rainbow rainbow around me and the sky outside my window is as blue as blue can be fiddle. Dee dee outside my window.

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It's as blue as blue, can be rainbow rainbow.

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Rainbow row me rainbow rainbow rainbow around me and the grass outside my window is as green as green can be fiddle. Dee dee outside my window, it's as green as green can be, and the sky is, as blue as blue can be rainbow rainbow rainbow round me rainbow rainbow rainbow round, and the sun outside my window is as yellow as yellow can be fiddle.

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Dee dee outside my window, it's as yellow as yellow can be, and the grass is as green as green can be, and the sky is, as blue as blue can be rainbow rainbow rainbow brownie rainbow rainbow rainbow round me yay, and you know you can sing that song about any color that you find orange leaves or.

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An orange scarf a red.

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Car, a purple flower.

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You can just keep on going adding to that song.

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And I hope you keep on going this rest of this week and have a great week we'll see you on tuesday.

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At 11 15 for our next story time and um before we say goodbye, I'm going to give you a stamp.

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There it is the leaves well it's time to wave goodbye to our friends. Well, it's time to wave goodbye to our friends. Well, it's time to wave goodbye, give a wave and say goodbye!

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Well, it's time to wave goodbye to our friends yay thanks for joining me, make sure you check out.

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Winter.Sanbrunolibrary.Org to find out all about our winter reading program see you.

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