Hands-on Learning Activities to Celebrate the Fall Season
This Autumn Unit Study finds learning activities falling from the trees and hidden inside apples. They are counted in the sunflower seeds and written in the applesauce.
Use all five senses to explore the sights and sounds of Fall...
Fall Table of Contents
Overview of the Autumn Unit Study
- Fall
- Fall Leaves Crunch
- Sunflower Seeds ripen in the Fall
- Geese form V's in the Fall Sky
- Apples Fall from Trees
- Apples in the Fall
- Pumpkin Seed Words
- Autumn Pumpkin Words
- Change the Clocks
- Spring Froward, Fall Back
- Gather Nuts in the Fall
- Squirrels Collect Acorns in the Fall
- Autumn Groceries
- What fun autumn activities do you like to dol?
- Pixie in the Leaves
- Come Little Leaves
- Fall Leaf Poem
- Pressing Leaves
- Autumn Tree and Leaf Craft for Fall
- Autumn Nature Table
- Understand the color of leaves in the Fall
- Evelyn's Hands-on Learning Blog
- What do you do in the fall?
- Meet the Author of this Fall Lens
Fall
by Chris L.. Demarest
Does your child love to go out on a crisp fall day and play in the leaves? Fall by Chris L. Demarest is the book for you. With simple words, written in large print, a rhyming text and simple but clear pictures this book is sure to be one of your child's favorites.
Fall comes in a board book edition which is ideal for the amount of use this book will receive but it also comes in a new format which makes it possible to keep your child happily reading no matter where you are.
- MobiStories: Fall
- Screen time is Reading Time with MobiStories.
Fall Leaves Crunch
Learning to read the color words of fall.
Fallen leaves become natural glitter in this fun Autumn Unit Study.
1. On a nice fall day go outside and collect some leaves.
2. When you come back in, separate them into piles of red or green leaves.
3. Leave the leaves out to dry.
4. After a few days put one color of leaves in one sensory table and the other color in another sensory table. (Dishpans will do.)
5. Show the children how to make the leaves crunch and crumble.
6. Make large outlines of the letters in the words red and green.
7. Give one letter to each child.
8. The child covers the letter in glue and then sprinkles the crushed leaves onto the glue.
9. When the glue has dried assemble the words and post.
I use this activity during center time and have parent volunteers help children with the gluing.
Sunflower Seeds ripen in the Fall
Autumn Sunflower Math Activity
Make mathmats with a sunflower on the left hand side and birds on the other.
1. Children put 5 sunflower seeds on the sunflower.
2. The birds have no sunflower seeds.
3. 5+0=5 seeds all together.
4. One sunflower seed falls to the ground.
5. 4 sunflower seeds on the sunflower plus 1 sunflower seed on the ground equals 5 sunflower seeds all together.
6. 4+1=5.
Continue on with the rest of the seeds.
Geese form V's in the Fall Sky
Bird Migration
Notice how Canadian Geese gather together and begin to fly south in the fall. Listen to them honking to eachother. What do you think they are saying?
Look at the shape formed by the geese as they fly. This is the letter V.
1. Make outlines of the letter V,
2. Children use the flying goose stamp to stamp the letter V.
Variation:
With an adult helper you might ask them to stamp each V ten times. That way you could count the geese by 10's. For younger children I put ten dots along the V shape for them to stamp on.
Apples Fall from Trees
Look what's hidden inside!
Photo Credit: Star inside the Apple
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Over the course of the year take trips to an apple orchard. Take lots of pictures as they will come in handy as you illustrate books and poems you write.
Think about the orchard using all five senses as you explore. Compare the smell of the apple blossoms in the spring to the smell of the apples in the fall. Do the leaves feel differently when they first start to grow compared to those that have fallen to the ground in the fall?
Fall is the time to pick some apples. This is the time of year that they are crisp, juicy and perfect for eating. When you come back from your trip, look for the star that is hidden in every apple.
Apples are my favorite snack-
all juicy, red, and round.
I love how every tasty bite
comes with a crunchy sound.
Apples in the Fall
Apple Unit Study
Apples are associated with fall. You will find dozens of ideas to teach across the curriculum on my apple lens.-
Apple Trees and Apple Blossoms Unit Study
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When Garner Rix moved with his family to Vermont in 1780 he brought apple seeds with him. He carefully planted those seeds which grew into trees and produced apple blossoms in Springtime and bushels of apples in the fall. It has been 200 years since...
Pumpkin Seed Words
Pumpkins are another symbol of Fall
orange
pumpkin
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red
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1. Blow up pictures of the pumpkin seed and write the letters to words on them.
2. Put the letters to each word in a small pumpkin.
3. Children can use the seeds to form the pumpkin words.
Autumn Pumpkin Words
Plastic Pumpkins for Spelling Fall Words
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Numbers from the Pumpkin Patch
Find more math ideas in the Place Value Pumpkin Unit Study
Use pumpkin placemats and pumpkin seeds as workjobs. The seeds can be stored in a plastic pumpkin.
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Pumpkins and Place Value
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Pick the biggest pumpkin you can find. Cut off the top and smell the fresh pumpkin smell. Carving a Jack O'Lantern leads into a mathematical unit study of place value that incorporates all five senses. Counting pumpkin seeds into groups of 10...
Change the Clocks
Spring Forward, Fall Back
(The time to change your clocks back is November 1, 2009)
Gather Nuts in the Fall
Autumn is the time to collect Acorns
Collect some acorns.
Of course you can use them for counting and sorting but you can also use them as cups and saucers for dolls.
Squirrels Collect Acorns in the Fall
Autumn Squirrel Unit Study
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Acorns for the Squirrels
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Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are counting their acorns. Read tales of squirrels who are preparing for Thanksgiving by making place mats, toilet paper tube squirrels and other Thanksgiving decorations. What will they be thankful for and w...
Autumn Groceries
Milk
Eggs
Bread
apples
pumpkins
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Pixie in the Leaves
Pixies have fun in the Autumn Leaves
Come Little Leaves
by George Cooper
"Come over the meadows with me, and play;
Put on your dresses of red and gold;
Summer is gone, and the days grow cold."
Soon as the leaves heard the wind's loud call,
Down they came fluttering, one and all;
Over the brown fields they danced and flew,
Singing the solf little songs they knew.
"Cricket, good-bye, we've been friends so long;
Little brook, sing us your farewell song-
Say you're sorry to see us go;
Ah! you are sorry, right well we know.
"Dear little lambs, in your fleecy fold,
Mother will keep you from harm and cold;
Fondly we've watched you in vale and glade;
Say, will you dream of our loving shade?"
Dancing and whirling the little leaves went;
Winter had called them and they were content-
Soon fast asleep in their earthy beds,
The snow laid a soft mantle over their heads.
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Fall Leaf Poem
This Fall poem comes from Hubbards Cupboard where you will find many more ideas to extend this theme.
These poems can accompany the Fall book and Autumn Unit Study.
Make up a tunes to these poems and sing them in the car on the way to soccer practice in the fall.
Write the words on large poster paper, one verse per page.
Read them with pointers. To help children start to notice words you can use dry erase markers to draw leaves around the word leaves, color the color words their color, etc.
Pressing Leaves
Fall Arts and Crafts
- Fall Leaf Craft
- Help your kids make a translucent mobile with this fall leaf craft.
Autumn Tree and Leaf Craft for Fall
Easy Fall Activity for Children
Autumn Nature Table
A Fall Display
MobiStories allows you to bring Fall with you where ever you go.
- Autumn Nature Table
- by Echoes of a Dream:
- Kinderdolls: Waldorf hand made dolls
- The autumn sister has her broom ready to clean up before the winter storms. Her big orange pumpkin is ready for carving for the fall celebrations.
Understand the color of leaves in the Fall
Why do leaves change color in the Fall?
Color the top edge of a piece of absorbent paper with a brown watercolor marker. Put it in a jar of water as shown in the illustration. You will start to see the colors separate.
When leaves change color in the fall, green from chlorophyll is no longer being produced so the other colors are shining through.
- "Discover Hidden Leaf Colors"
- Discover Hidden Leaf Colors is a science project for kids that brings fall colors out of spring leaves. Learn about this science project for kids.
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Acorns for the Squirrels
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Fetching RSS feed... please stand byWhat do you do in the fall?
When have MobiStories come in handy for you?
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- eccles1 eccles1 Oct 28, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
- your lenses are always so pretty
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- Svetlana Svetlana Oct 10, 2009 @ 1:24 am
- Thanks for sharing...great ideas to be done with my children.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Jun 2, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
- Welcome to the Nature and the Outdoors Group.
Lizzy
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- aj2008 aj2008 May 15, 2009 @ 3:07 am
- Lovely resource about Autumn/Fall ;) Lensrolled to my Autumn lens and Blessed by an Angel.
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- spirituality spirituality May 2, 2009 @ 9:39 am
- Great lens as always - blessed by a squidangel :)
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- mbgphoto mbgphoto May 2, 2009 @ 9:17 am
- Great lens! Fall is one of my favorite times
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Mar 29, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
- What a beautiful lens!
Thanks for sharing.
Lizzy
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- groovyoldlady groovyoldlady Jan 1, 2009 @ 10:02 am
- Usually in Fall we rejoice that the blackflies are gone and we can actually ENJOY being outside again!
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- Mortira Mortira Dec 4, 2008 @ 12:27 am
- A great lens for fall! Welcome to the Four Seasons group!
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