· home. As a family, plant a garden or a tree and watch it grow. Visit a neighborhood or community garden to learn about vegetables and flowers.

· Build a birdhouse or bird feeder for your backyard. Have children collect backyard flowers and leaves to create nature bouquets or pressed-flower pictures.

· Take a weekend adventure to a park like the La Mesa Ecopark or the

· Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Park.  Spend time talking with your children about the plants and animals they see.

· Have them draw pictures or take photographs of the things they see or experience on your weekend outing.

· Check out books from our LALC library to read with your  child.