Leaves Are Falling
(Tune: “London Bridge”)
Leaves are falling (Echo song. Children repeat each line.)
Leaves are falling (Flutter fingers down.)
To the ground. (Touch the ground.)
To the ground.
Red, orange, and yellow (Flutter fingers.)
Red, orange, and yellow
Falling down. (Touch the
ground.)
Falling down.
*Let children dramatize being leaves and
dancing in the wind. As the song
ends they fall quietly to the ground.
*What happens to leaves after they fall
from the trees? Later in the fall
when there are lots of leaves on the ground demonstrate how to pick up a
handful of leaves and crumple them in your hands. Explain how those leaves will decay and turn into soil.
It’s Fall
(Tune: “It’s Raining”)
It’s fall, it’s fall,
The best season of all.
Pumpkins, scarecrows,
Football, too.
A special time for me and you.
Fall
Why do you think they call this season
“fall”? What’s another name for
fall?
What season comes before fall? What season comes after fall? Fall is a cool off time between hot
summer and cold winter.
Signs of Fall
Brainstorm signs of fall and write them on
the board. What kind of clothes do
we wear in fall? What’s the
weather like in the fall? Are
there any special seasonal foods we eat?
What kind of sports are popular in fall? What holidays do we celebrate in the fall? What do animals do to get ready for
winter? What do plants do in the
fall?
*Let children make an attribute web and
label it with pictures of words of things that remind them of fall.
Nature Walk
Go on a nature walk and look for signs of
fall. Provide children with
tablets, paper, and pencils so they can record their “observations” on the
walk.
I Like Autumn Language Experience Chart
Let children dictate sentences about why
they like autumn. Older children
could write their own original stories about, “Fall, Fall, Best of All!”
Acrostic Poem
Write the words “fall” or “autumn”
vertically down the side of a sheet of paper. Children think of a word that starts with each letter that
relates to fall.
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