Welcome

Fall Is in
the Air!
I'm so excited about finally getting to
put this page together. Fall is probably my favorite time of
year. I love the cooler weather, multi-colored falling leaves,
scarecrows, pecans, and pumpkins! I hope you take a few
minutes and look around. Hopefully you'll find some ideas that
you'll be able to utilize in your classroom as well.
Victoria, at
Kinder Korner, was the
first person I know of that broke huge themes down into smaller
units. I find that that way of teaching benefits my particular
teaching situation. Often, I teach the same children
year after year (I have a student now who's with me for the 5th
year! :)), and breaking the larger themes into smaller units helps
me to not teach the same things over and over. Fall comes around
every year, so by breaking it down into smaller units, I can teach
something different every year for several years. So for that
reason, I've broken the Fall Theme into several smaller units as
well. You can link to all of them from here. However, I
probably will not get all of them online at the same time.
Information provided on this page for classroom
use only; not for publication.
thevirtualvine.com 2002
Autumn leaves
Come falling down.
Red, yellow, orange, and brown.
Down, down, down.
~ Author Unknown
Books:
The Big Leaf Pile (a Clifford book) ~
Josephine Page
When Autumn Comes ~ Robert Maass
Autumn Leaves Are Falling ~ Maria
Fleming
Why Do Leaves Change Color? ~ Betsy
Maestro
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf ~ Lois Ehlert
Clifford's First Autumn ~ Norman
Bridwell
Squirrels ~ Brian Wildsmith
Nuts To You! ~ Lois Ehlert
Scamper: A Gray Tee Squirrel ~ Edna Miller
The Squirrel ~ Ruth Hurlimann (Wright Group)
The Squirrel ~ Margaret Lane
The Squirrel and the Moon ~ Eleonore Schmid
What You Do Is Easy, What I Do Is Hard ~ Jake
Wolf
Forest Life ~ Barbara Taylor
Night Gliders ~ Joanne Ryder
In a Nutshell ~ Joseph Anthony
Squirrels and Chipmunks ~ Allan Fowler
Tick-Tock ~ Eileen Browne
The Wild Woods ~ Simon James
Just One! ~ Sam McBratney
Corn-What's for Lunch ~ Pam Robson
Autumn Leaves ~ Ken Robbins
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I came up with this bulletin board this year
because I wanted to do a fall bulletin board. And, I had
a ton of leaves already cut out that were never used for a
school program. I totally love this board and it was
very simple except for having to staple each leaf onto the
tree. The trunk of the tree is the same one that I use
with my apple tree at the beginning of the year.
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I have this poem on sentence strips to be used
in the pocketchart. I also have it written on a second
set of sentence strips which I cut apart into word cards. But
instead of using the color words, I drew that color leaf onto a
card. The students match the word cards to the text in the
poem and the colored leaves to the correct color word. I also
wrote the sentence strips in alternating colors of markers.
This helps some of my students who need the additional support to
find the correct matching text. They know an orange word goes
on an orange sentence strip, etc. It narrows their field of
choice. (Because I forget how the poem goes from year to year,
every year it's a little different! The strips are
interchangeable and they still work together nicely.)
If you're working with more advanced students,
this would be a good poem to use while working on the "ow" sounds.
It's also good for reinforcing color words.
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Another pocketchart activity that I do with
every theme is to use the Ellison machine and cut out appropriate
die-cuts for that theme. For fall, I cut out acorns, leaves,
pumpkins, turkeys, owls, footballs, etc. to use in the pocketchart.
If you laminate your paper first, then cut them out with the Ellison
machine, it will cut down on your cutting time.
I keep a set of number cards laminated in the
pocketchart, then all I have to do is change out the die-cuts.
The students count the die-cuts on each row, then insert the correct
number card to match. Or, you can do the opposite and put up
the number card and have them place the correct number of die-cuts
on the row beside the number.
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Fall Word Wall: You can create a portable Fall
Word Wall in one of your pocketcharts as well. Add a
picture if possible to each fall word written on a piece of
sentence strip. (See our Farm Word
Wall for picture) Some words you might use are:
apple |
leaves |
leaf |
red |
yellow |
brown |
orange |
green |
fall |
falling |
pile |
rake |
cool |
pumpkin |
crisp |
weather |
Halloween |
Thanksgiving |
acorn |
squirrel |
football |
nuts |
store |
scarecrow |
corn |
harvest |
Autumn |
gather |
cornstalk |
crow |
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Fine Motor: Provide students
with red, orange, brown, and yellow playdough and let them use
leaf shaped cookie cutters to cut out fall leaves. If
available, have them use different sizes and then line the
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Sesame Street put out (and maybe
still does) a Fall frame tray puzzle. This makes a good
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Down! Down!
Yellow and brown.
The leaves are
falling all over town.
~ Author Unknown
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Here's a variety of versions of "5 Little
squirrels". You could choose the one of your choice to
make a flannelboard activity.
Version 1:
Five little squirrels sitting in a tree
The first little squirrel said, "What do I see?"
The second little squirrel said, "I see a gun."
The third little squirrel said, "Oh let's run."
The fourth little squirrel said, "Let's hide in the shade."
The fifth little squirrel said, "I'm not afraid."
When bang went the gun and away they did run!
~ Author Unknown
Version 2:
Five little squirrels with acorns to
store.
One went to sleep and then there were four!
Four little squirrels hunting acorns in a tree.
One fell down, and now there are three!
Three little squirrels wondering what to do.
One got lost, and now there are two!
Two little squirrels tossing acorns for fun.
One got tired, and now there is one!
One little squirrel playing in the sun.
He ran away, now there are none.
~ Author Unknown
Version 3:
Five little squirrels sitting in a tree.
The first one said, "What do I see?"
The second one said, "Some nuts on the ground."
The third one said, "Those nuts I found."
The fourth one said, "I'll race you there."
The Fifth one said, "All right, that's fair."
So they shook their tails and ran with glee.
To the nuts that lay at the foot of the tree.
~ Author Unknown
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Falling,
falling,
Autumn leaves are falling.
Falling, falling,
Falling all around.
Whirling, whirling,
Autumn leaves are whirling
Whirling, whirling,
Whirling all around.
~ Author
Unknown
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AUTUMN WINDS
(Tune: Ring Around the Rosie)
Autumn winds begin to blow.
Colored leaves fall fast and slow.
Whirling, twirling all around,
Till at last they touch the ground.
~ Author Unknown
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Ten Little Leaves
(Ten Little Indians)
1 little, 2 little, 3 little leaves,
4 little, 5 little, 6 little leaves,
7 little, 8 little, 9 little leaves,
Blow them all away.
POOF!
~ Author Unknown
(another version of this poem also says
"Whoosh!" at the end instead of "Poof!")
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The Leaves on the Trees
(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus)
The leaves on the trees turn orange
and red, orange and red, orange and red,
the leaves on the trees turn orange and red,
all through the fall.
The leaves on the trees come
tumbling down,
tumbling down, tumbling down,
the leaves on the trees come tumbling down,
all through the fall.
The leaves on the ground so swish, swish,
swish;
swish, swish, swish; swish, swish, swish.
The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish,
all through the fall.
~ Author Unknown
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Leaf Sort: Photocopy 3 - 6
different types of leaves in assorted colors onto construction
paper. Laminate and cut out. (I photocopied my
patterns out of a book and they were in a grid format.
This makes it easier to cut them out because you're not
actually cutting around each leaf. Basically you're just
cutting the cards apart.) Students can sort leaves by
color or by leaf type.
The cards were copied from this resource
book:
Learning Centers through the Year
(Teacher Created Materials #059)
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Real Leaf Sort: Provide each
student with a brown lunch bag. Take them on a walk
around campus and have them pick up leaves. Once they're
back into the classroom, have them sort the leaves into
categories based on types. Then let them choose one leaf
of each type and glue them onto butcher paper. If
appropriate, have them label each type of leaf.
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Fall Tree Art Project: Provide each
student with a brown "bare" Ellison die-cut tree. If you
don't have this, you can either provide them with a photocopy
of a tree trunk to color, or have them draw their own.
Glue the tree trunks onto the bottom of construction paper.
Students will fill in the top of the tree using small wads of
brown, orange, yellow, and red tissue paper dipped in glue.
The tissue paper should be cut into about 1 inch squares prior
to the activity.
If you choose, you can fill in the tree
with the students' fingerprints instead of the tissue paper.
Let them use each finger for one color of ink or paint.
Another version would have the students
use a q-tip to make the leaves instead of their fingers.
And still another version would be for
students to use their forearm and hand print to form the tree
trunk. You'd need to brush brown paint on the bottom of
their arm and palm of their hand, then have them press them to
the paper to form the tree trunk.
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Fall Wreath: Cut the center from a
paper plate and glue multi-colored fall leaf die-cuts around
the plate, overlapping them to cover all of the plate.
Add a raffia bow and a hanger to the back.
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File Folder Activity: Choose a
summer time graphic or picture and one that depicts fall.
Glue each to the inside of a file folder turned vertically.
Have students sort provided pictures into the correct season.
If you choose, they can work on all 4
seasons using the pocketchart instead of a file folder.
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Leaf Patterns: Use different
colors of different Ellison die-cut leaves to create patterns.
For a Center or Workjob, you could provide them with a type of
pattern written on a card (AB or ABC or AABB, etc.) and then
they use the leaves to create that type of pattern. You could
also have them create this activity in a pocketchart.
An alternate activity would be to let
them create their own patterns and then have them describe the
type of pattern to you or create their own card for each
pattern they create (cards would say AB, etc.)
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Fall Patterns: Use the activity
above but provide die-cuts of leaves, pumpkins, corn, or
anything that depicts fall.
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Fall Hats: Provide students with
fall or leaf die-cuts and have them glue them onto sentence
strips. When dry, fit the sentence strips around their
head and staple (but not to their head ;) ). If
you prefer, you could even have them create a pattern using
the die-cuts.
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Graphing: Pass a basket of
multi-colored die-cut leaves (or even fall die-cuts) around to
the students and have them choose one. Once everyone has
made a choice, graph what they chose making a pictograph with
the die-cuts.
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Comparing & Contrasting: Use a Venn
diagram to compare and contrast two types of leaves or a leaf
and pine needle.
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Writing Prompts:
If I had a HUGE pile of leaves, I would
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If I were a squirrel, I'd hide some nuts
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The squirrel hid nuts for ...
The last leaf on the tree ...
When the weather turns cooler, I ...
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Poems/Songs: Be sure to add all the
poems/songs you use to the students' Poetry Journals as well
as to Song Charts or the pocketchart. Don't miss the
opportunity to use them to reinforce tracking left to right,
one-to-one correspondence of words, phonics skills, and letter
and sound identification. Visit
Literacy Connections for more information.
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After several readings of the book
Squirrels by Brian Wildsmith, have students help to create
a facts chart about squirrels. You could even enlarge a
picture of a squirrel onto posterboard, laminate, and then use
it for your chart. By doing this, you can use the chart
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Making Words: Use a phrase of your
choice, like "Fall Leaves" and have your students make new
words from the letters. (See picture of this activity on the
Literacy Connections page)
Some possibilities are:
all |
sell |
leaf |
seal |
eve |
false |
eel |
slave |
vase |
fell |
self |
a |
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Tasting: If there are no nut
allergies in your class, have a nut tasting party then graph
everyone's favorites.
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Weighing: Use nuts to explore
weight and balance scales.
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Nut Sorting: A good Center activity
would be to provide a bag of mixed nuts and have students sort
them according to type. A good thing for them to sort
them into are those green, plastic baskets that strawberries
and blueberries come in.
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Woodland Forest Friends
Squirrels scurry,
Rabbits hurry,
Ants hide,
Food inside.
Woodland friends, everywhere.
For long winter,
Must prepare
And just in time
They pile away their stock -
All without benefit
Of calendar or clock!
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Leaf Mobiles: Use different leaf
die-cuts and multi-colored paper to make a leaf mobile.
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Leaf Rubbings: Show your students
how to place different types of leaves underneath a sheet of
white paper to make leaf rubbings with the side of a crayon.
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Leaf Prints: Use different types of
leaves to make leaf stamps. Press the leaves on to a
stamp pad or into a very shallow pan of tempra paint.
Then press them onto paper to make leaf prints.
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Resource Book: Teacher's Helper
Sept/Oct 1997
Autumn Addition (addition - 6)
Autumn Delight (addition - 5)
A Harvest of Good Work! (open)
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Resource Book: Teacher's Helper Oct/Nov
2002
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (fall patterning)
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Fall Harvest Discussion:
* What do farmers have to
do before a harvest?
* Why do farmers make
scarecrows?
* What do farmers do
with the food after it's harvested?
* Why do people
celebrate a good harvest?
* Does your family
have a garden? Do you help plant it? What sort of things grow
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Resource Book: November
Idea Book (Teacher's Friend Publications TF1100)
Harvest Activities
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Window Painting:
Mix 1/2 C liquid starch with 1 C brown tempra paint and paint
a tree onto your classroom window. Use the same recipe
with red, orange, and yellow to add leaves to the tree as well
as some falling to the ground.
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Leaf Shapes: Place
red, yellow, orange, and brown crayon shavings on wax paper.
Top with another piece of wax paper. Iron and cut into
leaf shapes. Hang in the window of your classroom.
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Fall Foliage:
Supply students with several types of leaves copied onto red,
yellow, brown, or orange construction paper. Have them
cut out the leaves and crumple them up. Then have them
spread them out and paint them using red, yellow, brown, and
orange paint. After they're dry, have them crumple them
up and press them out flat again. Add them to a bare
tree shape or other fall art projects, or use as classroom
decorations.
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Resource Book: Falling
Into Colors (Lasting Lessons)
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Raking Leaves
I like to rake the leaves
(raking motion with hands)
Into a great big hump
(pretend to pile leaves)
Then I move back a bit
Bend my knees and jump!
~ Author Unknown
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Fall Acrostic:
Have each student
complete an acrostic poem using the word "FALL" on a piece of
paper smaller than the construction paper they painted.
An acrostic poem is one where the chosen word is written
vertically on the paper and each sentence must begin with that
letter and must relate to the subject. For instance ...
Falling
leaves flutter down
A
slight chill in the air
Lovely
colors everywhere
Lonely
scarecrows standing guard
~ Cindy Montgomery
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Squirrel Facts:
Have each student either color a picture of a squirrel, draw a
squirrel during a directed drawing lesson, or assemble a
squirrel using provided pieces on a sheet of paper. Then
have them write one fact about a squirrel at the bottom of
their paper.
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Patterns: Use real nuts
for pattern practice.
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Nutty Counting:
Provide students with paperplates that have a fall die-cut
glued to the center that has been programmed with a number.
They will count out the appropriate number of nuts to match
the number on each plate.
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Describing Words:
Fall is the perfect time to introduce/reinforce describing
words. Have students brainstorm words that describe the
fall leaves and make a chart of the words. Have students
then use those words to help them to write describing
sentences.
The same activity can be
done for fall in general, the weather, etc.
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Graphing Center:
Provide students with graph papers and different colors of
die-cut leaves. Have students sort the leaves by color
and color in the correct number of spaces on their paper for
each set (color) of leaves.
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Squirrellin' Around:
Help your students to improve their balance while having some
fun. Using masking tape, make a "telephone line" across
your classroom floor or down the hallway. Have your
students pretend they are squirrels and walk along the line
without falling off while holding a "nut". (The nut can
be anything that they have to hold with both hands, like a
basketball.) When they get proficient at this, then have
them walk along the telephone line while being chased by
another squirrel (another student) who wants their nut!
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Language Experience:
Bring ears of corn to school, discuss, and then have students
shuck them! Afterwards, have them complete the following
art project:
Cut two ears of corn from
bubble-wrap (without the husks), then have the students take
turns painting the bubble-wrap yellow and pressing it to
pieces of white construction paper. This should look
like the kernels of corn on the cob. Then provide two
husk shapes copied onto green construction paper to cut out.
Once the leaves are cut out, have them glue one to each side
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Leaves Are Falling
(tune: Jingle Bells)
Leaves are falling
Leaves are falling
One fell on my nose.
Leaves are falling
Leaves are falling
One fell on my toes.
Leaves are falling
Leaves are falling
One fell on my head.
Leaves are falling
Leaves are falling
Yellow, orange, and red.
~ Author Unknown
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Five Little Leaves
Five little leaves up in
the tree,
They're bright as can be.
Along came the wind,
And blew them all around.
And one little leaf fell
to the ground.
Four little leaves ...
(Keep repeating the poem
subtracting one each time.)
~ Author Unknown
This could be used on a
flannelboard as well. Start with a bare brown tree trunk
and 5 colored leaves.
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Fall Is Here
(tune: The Farmer in the
Dell)
The leaves are falling
down.
The leaves are falling
down.
Red and brown they
flutter down.
The leaves are falling
down.
The squirrels hide their
nuts.
The squirrels hide their
nuts.
They hide them away for a
winter day.
The squirrels hide their
nuts.
The children go to
school.
The children go to
school.
They learn and play
through out the day.
The children go to
school.
~ Author Unknown
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Red leaves and yellow
leaves,
Orange leaves and
brown.
Leaves are dancing
everywhere,
Happily dancing down.
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Gray Squirrel
Gray squirrel, gray
squirrel,
Doesn't make a sound.
As he buries acorns
Under the ground.
Later, when it's cold
And food isn't around.
The gray squirrel will
dig
His acorns from the
ground.
~ Author Unknown
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Fall Tree: Paint a
large brown tree trunk onto butcher or bulletin board paper.
Then have students stamp their handprints to form the leaves
using fall colored paint.
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Found a Pine Cone
(tune: Oh, My Darling
Clementine)
Found a pine cone, found
a pine cone,
Found a pine cone on the
ground.
Oh, I'm so very lucky,
A pine cone to have
found.
Picked it up, picked it
up,
Picked up just like that.
Picked up that pretty
pine cone,
Then I put it in my sack.
Found a pine cone, found
a pine cone,
Found a pine cone on the
ground.
Oh, I'm so very lucky,
A pine cone to have
found.
~ Author Unknown
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Fine Motor Trees:
Use brown playdough to form tree trunk flat on table or mat.
Then place small balls of fall colored dough around the tree
top. Squash balls flat to form "leaves".
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Fall Counting: Cut
fall shapes using die-cuts. Either program each shape
with a number and another matching shape with the appropriate
number of matching dots, or cut each shape in half. If
cutting them in half, program one half with the number and the
matching half with the appropriate number of dots to match the
number.
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Leafy Art: Tape
leaves to white paper. Using a sponge bottlewasher, dab
fall colored paint totally covering white paper. When
the paint is dry, remove the leaves to see white leaves
surrounded by fabulous fall colors.
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Harvest Time
(tune: Twinkle, Twinkle,
Little Star)
Harvest time is here
again.
In the garden we must
dig.
Carrots, radishes,
onions, too,
All so fresh and yummy,
too.
Harvest time is here
again.
Won't be long till you
know when!! (Thanksgiving)
~ Author Unknown
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Rhyming: Program leaves
or other fall die-cuts with rhyming words. Laminate.
Have students match the rhyming words. This works well
for any type matching skill.
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Beginning Sounds:
Make a fall tree workmat for each sound. This could be
done by drawing a tree trunk on light blue construction paper
and coloring it with a brown marker. Then use the sponge
bottlewasher to add fall colored leaves. Program the
tree trunk with a letter. Add pictures that begin with
the same sound to die-cut acorns. Laminate all.
The students sort the pictures/acorns to the appropriate
trees/sounds.
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Resource Book:
Teacher's Helper Aug/Sept 2001
Rake Five! (counting
game)
Fabulous Fall Journal
(writing prompts)
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Resource Book: The Best
of Teacher's Helper* Seasonal & Holiday Activities (TEC1478)
Candy Corn Counting
(Counting to 5)
Candy Corn Patterning
Graphing Fall Leaves
Funny Fall (fall booklet)
Fall Page Topper
Fall Is Here (booklet)
Kitties In The Leaves
(visual discrimination)
Fall "FUN-tasy"
(classification)
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Resource Book: The
Mailbox* Kindergarten Oct/Nov 1997
Nuts To Counting!
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Resource Book: The
Mailbox* Kindergarten Oct/Nov 1998
"My Book of Leaves"
The Colors of Fall
(graphing)
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Resource Book: Teacher's
Helper* Oct/Nov 2000
Bring in the Harvest
(sets/more)
Autumn Journal (prompts)
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
(classification)
Leaf Sorting
(classification)
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
(story starter)
All About a Leaf (leaf
observation)
Maple Tree Seasons (story
sequence)
Let's Investigate
(collecting data)
The Seasons of a Tree
(booklet)
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Resource Book: Teacher's
Helper* Sept/Oct 1998
Fall Lineup (patterning)
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Resource Book: Teacher's
Helper* Oct/Nov 2001
Fall on the Farm
(booklet)
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Resource Book: Teacher's
Helper* Sept/Oct 1999
A Crop To Crow About
(letter recognition)
Fall Fun (matching
uppercase/lowercase)
Leaf Leaping (matching
uppercase/lowercase)
Crunchy To The Core
(letter recognition)
The Treetop Tango (visual
discrimination)
A Squirrel Song (Gray
Squirrel song stretcher)
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Resource Book: Teacher's
Helper* Grade 1 Sept/Oct 1992
Acorn Collection (initial
consonants b,r,s,f,l)
Fall Leaves Falling
(initial consonants y,v,n,k,j)
Football Fling (initial
consonants h,d,t,z,q)
Autumn Leaves (open)
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Resource Book:
SCHOOLDAYS* Nov/Dec/Jan 1990 - 91
Harvest Patterns
(patterns)
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Resource Book:
SCHOOLDAYS* Sept/Oct 1986
We're Nuts About School
(writing page)
Fall Stationary page
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The leaves are falling,
One by one.
Summer's over,
School's begun.
~ Author Unknown
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Resource Book: Teacher's
Friend* October
Autumn Leaves (fall
patterns)
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Even if you don't have an
archive for all the past Mailbox magazines like we do at our
school, if you have a subscription, go and check out the
online extensions for each of the magazines that are listed.
You'll find a wealth of printables and other valuable
activities at The Mailbox Companion.com.
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Carol generously
shared the following activities. Thanks again Carol for
sharing with us! :)
Give each person a
detergent cup that has a small branch that has lots of little
branches off of it (resembles a small tree that way) stuck
into the cup with playdough. Put pieces of crumbled
tissue paper on the branches and turn it into a mini 3-d fall
tree.
Use the water table
to predict, experiment and record to see if an acorn will sink
or float, a milkweed pod, pine cone number 1, 2, 3 (all
different kinds of pine cones), maple seed wings, etc.
Use tweezers to
pluck the kernels from Indian corn. The kids love this
activity-and it can get expensive. But you can get a lot of
mileage from the corn kernels after they are plucked-sorting,
patterning, gluing them on toilet paper tube napkin rings,
etc.
Use an egg carton
for a seed sampler (like a Whitman candy sampler). Put a
picture of a pumpkin in the lid of the carton and a pumpkin
seed in the first egg cup. Next a picture of an oak tree in
the lid and an acorn in the second egg cup. Sunflower picture
in the lid and a sunflower seed in the third egg cup. You can
use stickers or tiny black and white reproducibles for the
picture source.
Similar idea-make
an accordion book and draw a pumpkin on the first page and put
a pumpkin seed near it.
When using poems in
pocketcharts, put a reduced picture of a "squirrel" above the
word squirrel. Then on the cards for matching text, put a
larger picture of the same squirrel on one side of the
sentence strip and the word squirrel on the back of the same
strip. For the children who are at the picture matching level
they can match the squirrel pictures-but are still exposed to
print from the lines in the rhyme. For the children who would
be matching the word squirrel to the word squirrel, they can
turn the sentence strip over and see the picture of the
squirrel. In the case of color words, put a "scribble" or
orange on one side of the card and the color word orange on
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Up in the Treetops
(Tune: Up on the Housetop)
Up on the treetops, I see leaves! (Hold leaf high above head)
They are swaying in the breeze. (Sway back and forth)
First they are green, but when it turns cold, (show green side
of leaf)
They change to red and orange and gold. (show fall color side)
Go, go, go! Where did they go? (put leaf behind back)
Ho, ho, ho! Don’t you know? (Look left and right)
That’s when the wind blows—swish, swish, swish. (Slowly swirl
leaf above head)
And they come floating down like this! (slowly lower leaf to
floor)
~ Author
Unknown
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Math Counting
Mat: If I've already added this idea (minus the picture) I
couldn't find it. :) Cut a bare tree trunk using the
Ellison machine and glue onto construction paper.
Program with a number and laminate. Students count the
appropriate number of silk flowers onto the mat. I
purchased two bags of leaves, each containing 88 leaves, at
Wal-Mart.

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Writing Simple
Sentences: We're going to start writing simple sentences, so
this is a sheet that I created as a jumping off point.
We've been reading fall/autumn books & poems, so the children
are aware of what colors constitute fall leaf colors.
Writing Simple Sentence
Activity Sheet
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This is the
second year that I've done a fall decoration at my house.
This is of
course my daughter, Brittney.
10-17-04
This is my new
front porch (new house) with my new granddaughter. :)
She belongs to
Brittney from the photo above.
10/07
Links:
Fall glyphs
http://www.teachersbookbag.com/fall.html
Seasons emergent reader
http://www.teachersbookbag.com/season.html
Harvest Hoe-Down
http://akidsheart.com/holidays/fall/fall.htm
Leaf
Matching printable
http://www.crayola.com/activitybook/print.cfm?id=643&dc_cid=103
An
Autumn Day mini-book printable
http://www.crayola.com/activitybook/print.cfm?id=1031
Fall
Fingerprint Tree
http://www.crayola.com/ideas/idea_display.cfm?id=247
Handprints, Trees, and Fall Colors
http://www.kinderart.com/corner/100299.shtml
Squirrel printable
http://mitglied.lycos.de/Baaden/eichhoernchen.htm
Match the squirrel to the nuts counting sheet
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag11.html
Fall
crossword puzzle printable
http://www.geocities.com/twilagail/sept5.html
Top
of the Heap printable award
http://www.preschoolprintables.com/award/awardfallc.shtml
Visit Graphic Garden and look under "Printables" for CUTE fall
stationary! Also, look under "For the Little Ones" for a
printable fall squirrel coloring sheet
http://www.graphicgarden.com
Fall
Into Fall
http://www.teachingheart.net/afallunit.html
Leaves Are Falling
http://www.mrsballingall.homestead.com/leaves.html
Fall
Coloring Pages
http://www.primarygames.com/seasons/fall/color.htm
Count the Crows printable
http://www.geocities.com/twilagail/sept2.html
Fall...ing Into Place With Autumn!
http://myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,34898-119831-38-60412,00.html
DLTK's Autumn Crafts for Kids
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/fall/crafts.html
Pro
Teacher! Seasonal and Holiday Lesson Plans for Fall
http://www.proteacher.com/160020.shtml
The
Leaves Are Falling Down
http://www.kinderkorner.com/falling.html
Candy Corn Rice Crispy Treats
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1357.html
Acorn Wreath
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1413.html
Framed Fall Leaves
http://www.kathyross.com/craftweek5.html
Fall Acorn Wreath
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/acornwreath.html
Make a Catch the Leaf Game
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/catch_the_leaf.htm
Fall Leaf Prints
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/fallleaf.html
Autumn Wreath
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/autumnwreath.html
Fall Bouquet
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/bouquet.html
Preschool Education Science: Fall
http://www.preschooleducation.com/scfall.shtml
Harvest
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/harvest/harvest.
htm
General Fall
http://www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/seasonal
A to
Z Kids Stuff Leaves
http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/leaves.html
Autumn Leaf Art Projects
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-670.html
Activity Idea Place: Leaves
http://www.123child.com/fall/leaf.html
Fall/Autumn @ Songs 4 Teachers
http://www.songs4teachers.com/fall.htm
Leaf
Borders
http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/October/leaves.htm
Leaf
Shape Book
http://www.abcteach.com/shapebooks/general/MapleLeaf1.htm
Nature Walk
http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/October/walk.htm
Outside My Window
http://gonewengland.about.com/library/bloutmywindow.htm
Fall
Leaf Coloring Pages
http://gonewengland.about.com/library/coloring/blfallcoloringpages.htm
Autumn Screensavers
http://gonewengland.about.com/cs/autumnscreensaver/index.htm
How
to Preserve Leaves
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1480.html
My
Fall Leaves Number Book (printable)
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag106.html
Fall Activity Pages
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/activitypages.html
Camping Connection: Squirrel Coloring Page
http://www.campingconnection.com/global/printables/squirrel.htm
Cornstalk printable
http://www.coloringbookfun.com/halloween//images/CORNSTK3.gif
Fall Fun from PrimaryGames.com
http://www.primarygames.com/seasons/fall/fall_fun.htm
Fall Harvest Stationary
http://www.homeandoffice.hp.com/hho/us/eng/fall_harvest_
stationery.html
Fall Object Match (printable)
http://www.kizclub.com/Topics/holiday/fallsquirrel.pdf
Fall Puzzle (printable)
http://www.kizclub.com/Topics/holiday/fallpuzzle.pdf

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