Tree House Together

Welcome to the new year! We're so excited to meet up again soon in the tree house, together, to start off Season 2!
We've learned a lot over the past year and are excited to bring you episodes about every 2 weeks over the course of 2025.
Episodes ideas for Season 2 include building, bugs, Star Wars, going hiking and camping, and much more. If you have any thoughts or suggestions on future topics, we'd love to hear about them! You're always welcome to reach out – our contact info is on our website: https://www.elmplace.co and our email address is [email protected].
Thanks for listening and come back soon! 

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

Welcome to winter! On this year's winter solstice, we're talking all about why it's the shortest day of the year, what happens when the weather gets colder, winter holidays and traditions, and all of the fun things we can do to celebrate and stay cozy during these winter months.

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

Jane Goodall is amazing. When she was just a kid she knew that she wanted to work with animals. And when she was in her 20s, she started to patiently observe chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, discovering new and important things about these great apes. 
She turned 90 in 2024, and has dedicated her life to understanding chimps and helping to take care of our planet. She's a trailblazer and quite a marvelous person in our wondrous world.

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

Money money money! What exactly is this thing that makes the world go around? What do we do with it and how do we get it??? This week we're chatting all about dollar bills (or as T and every Bluey-loving kid says, "dollar bucks"), types of coins, spending, saving, working to get it, and most importantly, what T would put on her own currency! 

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

We can feel the ocean water when the waves roll up onto the sand, and see it when we look out from the coast, but there's so much going on under the surface that we can't tell from above! Dive in to the ocean with us to talk about this big, blue body of saltwater, which covers over 70% of the planet Earth! 

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

Friends, are you part of a family? Do you visit friends? Do you go to a school, are on a sports team, or in an art class? If you do any of these kinds of things, then you are spending time with people. We are all part of a larger community.  So, it is important that we think about how to treat other people. In this episode, we talk about some of the ways we can take care, with others.

Grown ups – this is the first of three episodes we plan to do on taking care: Taking Care with Others, Taking Care of Ourselves, and Taking Care of the World. This episode dives into inviting people and accepting invitations, interrupting and waiting, saying please and thank you, appreciation, saying "I'm Sorry", and thinking about how you act with younger siblings and older family members. We'd love to hear any of your suggestions for other topics to cover in future episodes! 

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

All aboard this exciting episode where we talk about transportation, tracks, and all things trains! 

How do trains work? Who operates them? And why are they such a big deal? We discuss all this and more in this episode built for our fellow train-lovers.

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

Sing along with us to the audio file of our Tree House Together podcast theme song!

Hello friends and how do you do?
Thanks for joining, let's learn something new
in the tree house, together.

Come on in, let's branch out
and discover what the world is all about
in the tree house, together.

This song was written by Kara Brodgesell. It was sung by Kara and T. Ukulele accompaniment by Jean Brodgesell.

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

Do you ever hear a buzzing sound when you're checking out a flower? Do you know what's making it?? A bee's wings! Which they can flap many more times in a second than we can flap our arms. Bees are fascinating and helpful to our world, even if their stingers can scare us sometimes. So in this episode, we talk all about parts of the bee's body, why they collect nectar and pollen, how the hives of honeybees work, and so much more! 

We'd love to hear from you! Send us a text message.

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.

In this episode swap, we're so excited to share an episode from one of Kara's favorite podcasts – The Children's Book Podcast.

Join us to listen to a fascinating conversation between host Matthew Winner and Megan Lacera and Jorge Lacera about their book The Wild Ones. It's a heartwarming and epic tale of four best friends who turn to the mythical monsters from their respective cultures to help them save the only home they've ever known.

You can learn more about Matthew & The Children's Book Podcast at matthewcwinner.com and visit Megan and Jorge online at studiolacera.com.

We'd love to hear from you! Send us a text message.

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Tree House Together is an Elm Place production.
It was created by Jean and Kara Brodgesell.
Podcast episodes feature Kara along with her kid, T.

Episode art and delightful ukelele ditties were created by Jean Brodgesell.
Episode was edited by Kara Brodgesell.

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For a summary of the episode and links that we've mentioned, check out the episode notes in our Tree House Together Episode Guide.

Follow along with us on Instagram to get episode updates, picture book recommendations, activity prompts and more!

And feel free to browse our Bookshop.org account to see all of the books we've recommended over the episodes. Purchases there will support independent bookstores.