Fall

Fall/Autumn Fall vocab: leaf, leaves, rake, pile, acorn, red, yellow, orange, brown, pumpkin, squirrel, tree

Introduction Language targets: vocab, receptive language: what quesitons expressive: my Read a fall story. I actually wrote one of my own to introduce the vocab I had choosen for the unit, but there are plenty of books to use find one you like and go with it. I bought silk leaves from the dollar store in orange, red, and green. I put these in the guess bag. Each student took a turn to draw a leaf. T: What color is your leaf? S: My leaf is _

Take Nature walk to find objects you are talking about. We collected leaves,sticks, seeds. Took pictuers along the way to make a chart story. The students used the items collected to make nature pictures at centers that afternoon.

Who is under the Pumpkin? Language targets: expressive language: under receptive langauge: Who? Materials: pumpkin (real, paper or plastic), pictures of each student and folders Have a pumpkin large enough to cover the child's picture. Put folders around the pumpkin so the students can't see who is hiding under the pumpkin. Remove the folders and ask T: Who is under the pumpkin? __S:__ __ is under the pumpkin.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Make Pumpkin Muffins <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Language targets: pour, stir, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Materials: box of pumpkin break mix, muffin tins, eggs, oil,water and cooking cart. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Discuss with the students that you can eat a pumpkin! Talk about some of the things that you can make with pumpkins (pie, muffins, bread, etc) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Follow the directions on the box. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Give each student direction: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Open the box <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Pour the mix in the bowl. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Pour the eggs in the bowl. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Pour the water in the bowl. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Stir the batter. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">If your studetns are ready, of course add the present progessive form of the verbs and past tense. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">We added chocolate chips to the batter, YUM! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Took pictures to make a chart story. Then turned the story into a book and put it on our bookshelf. The kids love to see themselves in the story!

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fall Bingo Game <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">langauge targets: same, not the same (different if your students are ready for it!) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Materials: Fall bingo cards, bingo chips <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Have students draw a card, name fall vocab and say if they have the same picture or not. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Click the link below for premade bingo cards. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|Bingo Cards]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fall Memory Game <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">langauge targets: same, not the same (different if your students are ready for it) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Materials: fall memory cards <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Play the game memory. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">When students turn the cards over they must say the name of each vocab picture and if the pictures are the same or not the same. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Click the link below for premade memory cards. I glued mine on index cards and laminated the cards. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|memory Cards]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Leaf Graphing on the Smartboard <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Language Targets: adjective+noun (color leaf, number leaf) Receptive language: how many, what? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Materials: leaves in orange, red and green, smartboard <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Give each student one or two leaves in differnt colors. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">T: What color leaves do you have? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">S: I have red leaves. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">T: How many do you have? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">S:I have 2 red leaves. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Then the student should come up to the smartboard and fill in the picture graph. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">When done discuss most and least (this was an introduction for the group)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Leaf Sorting <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">language targets: Big, small, I have... <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Materials: leaves in brown, orange red, guess bag and yellow. 4 Hula hoops. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Set hula hoops on the floor and sort the leaves by color first. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Put the leaves in the guess bag. Have each student draw a leaf from the bag. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">T: What color leaf do you have? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">S: I have a red leaf. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">T:Where will you put it? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">the student should put it with the other red leaves. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">When the students are done sorting by color, take away 2 hula hoops. Put a big leaf in one hoop and small leaf in the other hoop. Talk about the sizes and how we will sort. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Put all the leaves in the guess bag. Repeat steps from above. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">My class struggled with mixing the colors!

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Center Activities

<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: large;">*Paper plate Pumpkins, either paint orange and staple a brown stem ontop or do ripped orange paper. *Poke leaves in orange, yellow, red and brown (tape a large leaf sheet to the construction paper. the students poke the outline with a golf tee. Then take the top leaf off and under in the poked leaf! The kids love it, I make a big deal about removing the paper!)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">*Leaf rubbings. Collect different size leaves. Press in a book over night. Use the back side of the leaves to rub. Works soooo much better! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">*Rice sort. I put the candy pumpkins in the rice. The students had to sort out the pumpkins using tongs and put the pumpkins in the buckets. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">*Paint leaves copy leaves onto green paper then paint, red, yellow, orange, or brown. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">*Apple, pumpkin or leaves pictures paint with dotters. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">*Trace and color any fall picture.
 * Ear of corn. Cut two ovals. Glue one on brown paper and cut the other in half. Glue popcorn onto the oval on the paper, then glue the two halves on either side to make the husk.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Games <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Leaf Basket Upset <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This game is played the same as Fruit basket upset but with 3 colors of leaves. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">I put the kids in a circle and discussed the 3 colors of leaves. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Then I let the students pick out the color of leaf they wanted (I had precounted the leaves so that a good mix of colors was present). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Color out a color of leaf, only the students with that color leaf may get up and find a new seat. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">When you call leaf basket, all the students get up and find a new seat. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">When the students get a grasp of the game, start calling 2 colors together.

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