What are conifers?  Well to answer that questions I had a great video for you to watch and to go along with that video some vocabulary about conifers and trees in general.  Before watching the video below let me define a few words for you:

bark (noun) – the tough protective outer part of a tree’s trunk, branches, and twigs
branches (noun) – the part of a tree that grows out from the trunk
cone or pine cone (noun) – the rounded woody fruit of a pine tree with scales that open to release the seeds
conifer (nouns) – a tree that produces cones and needle-like or scale-like leaves
evergreen (noun) – sometimes conifers are called evergreens because their needles stay green when other trees’ leaves change colors and fall off
needle or pine needle (noun) – the needle-shaped leaf of a conifer tree
roots (noun) – the part of a plant that attaches the tree to the ground for support and collects water and nourishment for the rest of the plant
shrub (noun) – a woody plant that is smaller than a tree
trunk (noun) – the main woody center body of a tree
twig (noun) – a thin woody shoot growing out from the branch of a tree

Now you are ready to go.  Enjoy this cute kids song about conifers.  This is an easy to understand song that is sung slowly with a number of repeated lines, but I have pasted the lyrics to the song below so you can follow along to better understand any words you don’t already know.  The following words are the names of different types of conifer tree: larch, junipers, fir, spruce, cedars, pines, hemlocks, cyprus, yew, dwarf conifer, and sequoia redwood, in this song.  These are words you probably don’t already know – just keep in mind they are specific names of trees.

C is for Conifer song lyrics:

Most with cones for seeds
Most with needles for leaves
C is for conifers
My kind of trees

Larch, junipers and fir
Spruce, cedars, and pines
C is for conifers
More than five hundred kinds

If you see a Christmas tree
Or a stack of newspapers
Or a two-by-four frame of a house
It’s probably made from pine trees
And pine trees are conifers
That’s what this song is about

Or if you see a plant
In the shape of an elephant
Or in the shape of a dog
It’s probably a shrub
A conifer shrub
Pruned into that shape by someone

Most with cones for seeds
Most with needles for leaves
C is for conifers
My kind of trees

Larch, junipers and fir
Spruce, cedars, and pines
C is for conifers
More than five hundred kinds

There are so many different kinds of conifer trees. This is just a few of them:
Spruce
Hemlocks
Larch
Cyprus
Juniper
Fir
Douglas fir
Cedar
Yew
Pine
The dwarf conifer
And the great California sequoia redwood

Most with cones for seeds
Most with needles for leaves
C is for conifers
My kind of trees

Larch, junipers and fir
Spruce, cedars and pines
C is for conifers
More than five hundred kinds