Our class has joined other classrooms from across the United States to welcome the autumn season. We have read many books about fall,  written poems, discussed the season and did several projects. 

 

 

   This is our class acrostic poem about fall.

          all  s  ere

    Fall is here

   Acorns gathered by the squirrels

    Lovely red and yellow trees

    Leaves raked into a pile

 

    I  love fall

    Sunflowers drooping down

 

    Halloween is coming

    Everything is changing

    Ripe pumpkins on the vine

    Every animal is getting ready for winter

 

        Fall is here!  We love it!

 

 

 

Activities

  K-W-L Chart about fall.  What they know, would like to learn, and what they found out.
   Venn Diagram -  Compare autumn changes at school and home
      Nature Walk - take students on a walk around school grounds.  Look for things that are different in autumn than in the spring.
      Fall Leafs Me Happy  Have the children collect 4 leaves.  They measure the leaves and list on graph.  Look at the leaves under a magnifying glass.  Then they draw one of the leaves.
      Write a poem about autumn.  Illustrate their poems.  Below is an example of sone of our poems.

                                          

    

Kayle                                                        Gram
 
               
         We read the book "Leaf Man" by Lois Elert.  The children took leaves that they had gathered and designed their own leaf man.
 
 
We made a wreath from leaves.  They turned out great!
             
                                                           
 
Kane's wreath

 
 
 
 
We dyed coffee filters and cut out leaf shapes. 
 
 
  
       
                                                    
         
                        
                               Gram's  torn paper tree.
                                        
                                          
                                 
                                  Jacob's leaf rubbing
 
                                
                                        Evan's  Autumn farm scene
 
                                                                                               
                                                                                   
                                          Kinsleigh's Autumn farm scene
    

 

 

Books to Read

  •   Why Do Leaves Change Colors? by Betsy Maestro  

  •    The Big Leaf Pile by Josephine Page

  •   Fall Leaves Change Colors by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

  •   I Am a Leaf by Jean Marzolla

  •   Autumn Leaves Are Falling by Maria Fleming

  •   The Magic School Bus The Wild Leaf Ride by

  •   Judith Stamper

  •   The Biggest Leaf Pile by Steve Metzger

  •   The Falling Leaves by Steve Metzger 

  •   Log Hotel by Anne Schreiber

  •   Barn Dance by Bill Martin

  •   The Wild Leaf Ride by Judith Stamper

  •   Autumn Harvest by Tresselt Duvoisin

  •   The Lonely Scarecrow by Tim Preston

  •   The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown

  •   Shy Scarecrow Goes to School by Mary Packard

  •   The Shy Scarecrow by Mary Packard

  •   The Scarecrows Hat by Ken Brown

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