ABSTRACT
Exploring the forest with a group of grade 6 students, I notice a cluster of boys grouped around a spruce tree talking with fervour. “Call her over!” I hear one boy say. I walk toward them. “Come! Look what we found!!” another one shouts to me. I arrive at the foot of the tree and they push back some branches. There are small dark objects delicately placed on many of the boughs. “They look like elf ears,” one boy remarks. “Hey, there are some on this tree too!” a girl shouts from 50 feet away. “Here too!” another boy calls from down the winding path. “What are they?”, “How did they get here?”, “Can I eat it?”… I have no idea. We are filled with wonder.
