Fall/ Autumn

This week I want to mainly just do crafts since Halloween was coming up here shortly!

And when I look around the house there was nothing besides the window clings 

for decor. for Halloween.

Circle Time

• Review Learning Board
• Sight word(s)
• Count with Number posters
• Say ABC's with poster
• Calendar and weather

Memorization

• Itsy Bitsy Spider with Actions

Stories

• Fall Leaves by Mary Packard
• When the Leaf Blew In by Steve Metzger
• Clifford's First Autumn by Norman Birdwell
• Arthur Jumps into fall by Marc Brown
• Easy as Apple Pie by Karen Gray Ruelle
• Ten Red Apples by Virginia Miller
• Wild America Squirrels by Lee Jacobs
• Sophie's Masterpiece by Eileen Spinell
• Scarecrow by Michael Rox

Music

• Where is Pumpkin? (..Hiding under Red leaf) YouTube video found
• Itsy Bitsy Spider with Actions

Language Activities

• Sort Leaves by BIG, small, colors
• My Apple Book
• Squirrel Games (Number Matching, Maze to Nuts, Patterns)
• Dot to dot spider web
• Make scarecrow face and play out a story
• Apples can be.. (yummy, red, green, ect.)

Fine Motor

• Leaf prints
• Hand print tree with leaves falling and some apples
• Feather paint a squirrel outline
• Weave a spider web on popsicle sticks
• Wrap yarn (dipped in glue) around a balloon. Once dry pop balloon. SPIDER WEB then add spiders.
• Marble Roll Spider web, paint spider on it then.
• Hand print Spiders (use hand prints to make spiders, then add googly eyes, and cut out.

Learning Games

• Tic Tac Toe with candy corn as pieces.
• Taste test all different kinds of Apples and find a favorite
• Make Apple Crisp with extra Apple pieces. YUMMY!!
• Make Mummies (pigs in a blanket)

 Gross Motor

• Rake Leaves then jump in them.
• Nature Walk and talk about fall, and the leaves changing colors, and about the colder weather.
• Red Apple, Green Apple (red light, green light)
• Act like a Squirrel (use a towel)
• Walk on a spider web (painters tap on the floor to make a web. Put objects in between to pick up or walk over)