autumn

Books:

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We’re Going on a leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger and Miki Sakamoto

Because of an Acorn by Lola m. Schaefer, Adam Schaefer, and Fran preston-Gannon

Tree: A peek-Through Picture Book by Britta Teckentrup

Flannel Activity:

I’ll start with 10 green leaves on the tree.

We will count them together.

Then one by one I will replace a green leaf with a Fall leaf and ask the kids to say the color at home. I’ll pause a second to give them time and then say it.

Then after all the leaves are Fall leaves we’ll sing this song:

Ten little Leaves

One little, two little, three little leaves,

Four little, five little, six, little leaves,

Seven little, eight little, nine little leaves,

Ten little leaves are falling.

Gray Squirrel Song:

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! (bounce up and down on the words)
Swish your bushy tail! (shake it)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! (bounce up and down on the words)
Swish your bushy tail! (shake it)

Put an nut between your toes( touch your toes)
Wrinkle up your little nose!(wrinkle your nose)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! (bounce up and down on the words)
Swish your bushy tail! (shake it)

Repeat with:

Brown squirrel
Black squirrel
Red squirrel

Poem:

September by John Updike:

The breezes taste

Of apple peel.

The air is full

Of smells to feel–

Ripe fruit, old footballs,

Drying grass,

New books and blackboard

Chalk in class.

The bee, his hive

Well-honeyed, hums

While Mother cuts

Chrysanthemums.

Like plates washed clean

With suds, the days

Are polished with

a morning haze.