Are there trees in the desert?

This question came up when Trevor brought in a collection of toy animals that live in the African desert. All of the children said the giraffe, elephant, lion, and zebras lived in the desert, but one child said, "there are no trees in the desert!"

So, we looked in one of our books on the African desert, and we did see a couple of trees! "The giraffes eat trees!" said, Blake. So we all worked together on making a big art piece showing the desert.

The children made sure that it didn't look like a "forest", so they only put 4 trees in their desert!