Volume I · Scene 21 of 30
The first tiny olives
The first very tiny olives
After pollination, some flowers can
form a fruit. At first, the olives are
very tiny. Then they grow, little by little.
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More time passes. Where some of the flowers were, Ada finds tiny green olives.
Leo tries to count them, but the leaves hide some. ‘Has every flower become a fruit?’ Neri points to a branch where flowers fell without leaving olives. ‘No. Only some flowers go on to form fruit.’
Sami compares the two notebook drawings. The flower page had lots of dots. The new page has fewer ovals. Rumo would already like to fill a crate. Tila shows him how small the olives are. They still need to grow. The group leaves them on the branches and promises to come back and look again.
Let’s talk about it
Does every olive flower become an olive?
One possible answer
No. Only some flowers form fruit. The tiny olives left on the branches still need to grow.
A little activity
Our notebook — Compare the drawings of flowers and fruit. You can point to a place where a flower did not leave an olive.