Five Hoot Owls
Five hoot owls sitting in a tree
One flew away! How many do you see?
One, two, three, four.
Four hoot owls sitting in a tree
One flew away! How many do you see?
One, two, three.
Three hoot owls… etc.
Credit: Sunflower Story Time
Flannel Rhyme:
Red feather, red feather, what do you see?
I see a purple feather looking at me.
Purple feather, purple feather, what do you see?
I see a blue feather looking at me.
Blue feather, blue feather what do you see?
I see a green feather looking at me.
Green feather, green feather, what do you see?
I see a yellow feather looking at me.
Yellow feather, yellow feather, what do you see?
I see an orange feather looking at me.
Orange feather, orange feather, what do you see?
I see a brown feather looking at me.
Brown feather, brown feather, what do you see?
I see a black feather looking at me.
Black feather, black feather, what do you see?
I see a white feather looking at me.
Fungi by Nicole Davies (excerpted from Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature.
Pale balls and spotted saucers up on stalks,
rubbery Frisbees on trunks of trees,
gray furry fuzz on fallen leaves,
skinny oragne finger poking through the grass,
They’re not animals, and they’re not plants,
They’re something else–
they’re fungi: toadstools, mushrooms, molds.
They’ve been here all along,
their string-like bodies
hidden in the soil, under bark, inside branches.
The wet weather’s brought them out in these weird shapes,
and when they’ve spread their seeds, as fine as dust,
they’ll disappear as quietly as they came.
Leaves
Under people’s feet on paths and sidewalks,
floating on the pond,
leaves are everywhere,
in mounds and drifts so deep you can wade through them.
Kick swirls of red and yellow, brown and orange in to the frosty air.
–Nicole Davies (Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature)
We’ll also count the leaves and discuss the colors.
Pumpkin
We bought a fat
orange pumpkin,
The plumpest sort
they sell.
We neatly scooped
the inside out
And only left
the shell.
We carved a funny
funny-face
Of silly shape
and size,
A pointy nose,
a jagged mouth
And two enormous eyes.
We set it in a window
And we put
a candle in,
Then lit it up
for all to see
Our jack-o’-lantern grin.
Flannel Poem:
Adapted from “The Goblin” by Jack Prelutsky
There’s a goblin as green (purple, yellow, blue, pink)
As a goblin can be
Who is sitting outside
And is waiting for me.
When he knocked on my door
And said softly “Come play!”
I answered, “No thank you,
Now please, go away!”
But the goblin as green (purple, yellow, blue, pink)
As a goblin can be
Is still outside
And is waiting for me.
I’ve got a little white pumpkin
Cutest I’ve ever seen
But I hope my little white pumpkin
Turns orange for Halloween
(continue with the other colors and end with the orange pumpkin.)
Credit: One Little Librarian
(Story adapted from: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin jr.)
Purple owl, purple owl, what do you see?
I see a white ghost looking at me.
White ghost, white ghost, what do you see?
I see a purple bat looking at me.
Purple bat, purple bat. What do you see?
I see a Black Cat looking at me.
Black cat, black cat what do you see?
I see a purple witch looking at me.
Purple witch, purple witch, what do you see.
I see an orange pumpkin looking at me.
Orange orange pumpkin what do you see?
I see a jack O’ Lantern looking at me.
Credit: Sturdy for Common Things
Flannel Rhyme:
Down around the corner in the mooncake shop
Were five yummy mooncakes with candy flowers on top
Along comes Ma-Ma (Mom) with a dollar to pay
She buys a mooncake and takes it away.
Down around the corner in the mooncake shop
Were five yummy mooncakes with candy flowers on top
Along comes Ba-Ba (Dad) with a dollar to pay
He buys a mooncake and takes it away.
Down around the corner in the mooncake shop
Were five yummy mooncakes with candy flowers on top
Along comes Mei-Mei (Little Sister) with a dollar to pay
She buys a mooncake and takes it away.
Down around the corner in the mooncake shop
Were five yummy mooncakes with candy flowers on top
Along comes Jie-Jie (Sister) with a dollar to pay
She buys a mooncake and takes it away.
Down around the corner in the mooncake shop
Were five yummy mooncakes with candy flowers on top
Along I come with a dollar to pay
I buy a mooncake and takes it away.
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.