Upcoming Lesson Plan - Season of Fall

Next week we are talking about Fall! Fall is my favorite season, so I'm super excited! I have so many ideas for activities so the problem this week was trying to narrow them down to the ones I'm actually going to use (and I STILL think I've kept a busy lesson plan).

Here it is!
MONDAY
Circle Time - Welcome Fall! We will talk about the Change of Weather, how it is getting cooler outside and how the days are getting shorter and nights are getting longer. We will also talk about clothes that we start wearing in Fall (jackets, sweaters, boots, etc). We will also touch on the leaves changing color.

Our letters this week are going to be F AND L (F is for fall and L is for Leaves).

Art - Egg Carton Fall Trees - paint project (I got this idea from pinterest from another blog, here's the link: Egg Carton Painting Fall Trees).

Fine Motor - Fall Leaf Match (another idea from pinterest). Basically you use craft foam and punch it with a leaf shaped cookie cutter, and then half each leaf to make it a puzzle. Use all fall colors!

Here's the website I got the idea from: Fall Leaf Match

Math - Leaf Color Graph (the kids will find leaves outside and then once inside, we will tape them to a LARGE chart based on their colors. It'll hopefully look something like this:

Outside Activities - Look for Leaves!!

TUESDAY
Circle Time - Fall Colors! (brown, red, orange, yellow, and green)

Then we'll do a color game. Basically I took some pictures of fall things (a rake, pumpkin, squirrel, nuts, etc) and pasted them to a piece of construction paper of the above colors. I'll pass out the cards and then when I call out a color, each kid who has that color will stand up and tell us what the picture is on their card.

"What's your Favorite Fall Color" Graph

Review letters F and L.

Art - Finger paint with Fall Colors

Fine Motor - Fall Color sort

Sand Table - Add Leaves!!!

Writing - Letter L is for Leaves! We'll glue leaves to the letter L. I modeled the idea after this one:

....but using a letter L and leaf cutouts :)

Outside Activities - Find Fall Colors on the Playground!

Ride Bicycles (AND practice using the pedals!)

WEDNESDAY

Circle Time - Fall Activities! (football, raking leaves, hayrides, carving pumpkins, corn mazes, apple picking, etc)

"What's your favorite Fall Activity?"

Art - Fall Collage (with different fall items, like leaves, acorns, pictures of pumpkins, footballs, etc)

Blocks - Build a Corn Maze, Apple Orchard, or Pumpkin Patch!

Outside Activities - Throwing and Catching

THURSDAY

Circle Time - Fall Foods! (pumpkins, corn, caramel apples, turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, squash, etc.)

"What's your favorite food?" Graph

Letter F and L Sort

Fine Motor - Macaroni Necklaces (I'm going to paint the pasta fall colors in advance so that they'll be festive!)

Dramatic Play - Make a Fall Feast!

Writing - Letter F is for Fall (colors)

We'll color letter F with Fall colors (markers or crayons)

Outside Activities - Taking Turns on the Swings, and PUMPING OUR LEGS

FRIDAY

Circle Time - Fall Animals! (owls, squirrels, bats, raccoons, and spiders!)

"What's Your Favorite Fall Animal?" Graph

Art - Draw a picture of Fall!

Math - Fall Flashcards (I found some here: Fall Flashcards)

Reading - Read a Fall Book (We don't have many books in our classroom, so I'll ask the kids to bring in a fall themed book from home).

Outside Activities - Look for Fall Animals!

Well there you go!