1. Welcome to Deaf Eastern Autumn Retreat!!!

2. Why Do Leaves Change Color?

3. Patriarchs and Prophets Chapter 3 The Temptation and Fall
As they (Adam and Eve) witnessed in drooping flower and falling leaf the first signs of decay, Adam and his companion mourned more deeply than men now mourn over their dead. The death of the frail, delicate flowers was indeed a cause of sorrow; but when the goodly trees cast off their leaves, the scene brought vividly to mind the stern fact that death is the portion of every living thing.

4. Facts
Each bud on a tree is the beginning of a new leaf. The sun warms the bud and the new leaf begins to grow. As the leaf grows it starts to make its own food.

5. Facts
Each leaf is like a tiny food factory. The leaf uses sunlight, things in the air, water and a green matter called CHLOROPHYLL.

6. Facts
The green chlorophyll covers up the other colors of the leaf. It covers up the other colors so we can see only green leaves.

7. When fall begins…
the leaf starts to die. There is less sunlight because the days are shorter. The leaf no longer makes food.

8. When the leaf begins to die,
the leaf no longer makes food. The chlorophyll breaks down and the green color begins to disappear.