Fall Theme / Autumn Theme

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Desert Blossom Learning

Apple Theme
Fall Leaves Fall! Lesson (including a song)
Tree and Rainforest Themes
Columbus Day Theme
Halloween Theme
Pumpkin Theme
Squirrel
Thanksgiving Theme
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I have added some NEW Acorn eBooks on this page. (10/12/2011)

 

Autumn Border Trim Use this colorful border trim to liven up your classroom! Create fresh looks for bulletin boards, windows, walls, and class projects. Layer them for extra impact. Or mix and match them with coordinating products (stickers, notepads, awards, etc.) to promote a classroom theme. Each pack has 12 pieces (2 3/16'' x 35'') for a total length of 35 feet of trim!

Fall Straight Border Trim Use this colorful border trim to liven up your classroom! Create fresh looks for bulletin boards, windows, walls, and class projects. Layer them for extra impact. Or mix and match them with coordinating products (stickers, notepads, awards, etc.) to promote a classroom theme. Each pack has 12 pieces (3'' x 35'') for a total length of 35 feet of trim!

Fall 2-Sided Decorations Create a mobile or brighten a window! Colorful designs are printed on both sides, die-cut, and pre-punched for easy hanging. Each set of designs measures about 23" x 18".

Fall Leaves Accents Use this decorative artwork to dress up classroom windows and doors, label bins or desks, or accent bulletin boards. 3 each of 10 designs. 30 accents per pack.

Fall Stickers

Fall Stickers 120 Self-Adhesive stickers per pack. Each sticker is approximately 1 inch square. Teacher Created Resources stickers are acid-free. (Per Industry Standards; contact us for technical information.)

Free Pumpkin / Harvest / Thanksgiving Coloring Pages & Coupon

Reading, Language & Math Activities: Fall These quick and easy-to-implement seasonal activities provide students with fun-filled learning experiences. The activities are related to a variety of fall themes and holidays such as school, apples, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Reading and language activities include writing prompts, letter matches, alphabetical order, sentence building, and comprehension stories. Math activities include apple fractions, reading a school tools graph, and a pumpkin sort.

Seasonal Activities: Fall Book/eBook/Enhanced eBook Multi-tasking is for students, too! They can complete standards-based lessons while celebrating the season and decorating the classroom! The book provides six units of study: All About Me, Apples, Forest Animals, Leaves, Monarch Butterflies, and Pumpkins. Each unit includes reproducible patterns, activities, minibooks, and journal pages. Many of these same items are also available in full color on the CD that comes with the book. As children complete the activities, their finished work can be displayed in the classroom, and their progress in developmental skills can be assessed.

Do Leaf Rubbings.  Do it in different colors like red, yellow, orange, brown, and green.  Cut them out to have for the song and the words of the song for each child.

Fall Picture
Collect leaves, twigs, rocks, pine needles, etc. Glue them onto a piece of paper.  Make animals, people, or other objects.  Draw or paint arms onto them.

9.  Home Economics
Leaf Cookies: Bake leaf cookies (Sugar Cookies or Dairy-free Sugar Cookies).  Frost and  then decorate them using sprinkles, etc.
Leaf Biscuits: Bake leaf biscuits.  Serve with jams, preserves, or jellies that are the same color as fall leaves (or use any flavor).

Music

The Leaves on The Tree
Sung to: "The Wheels on The Bus"
Copyright © 2000, 2004 Barbara Pratt.  All rights reserved.

The leaves on the tree are falling down,
falling down, falling down.
The leaves on the tree are falling down,
Red, yellow, orange, and brown.

Note: Drop leaves from above your head as the color is mentioned in the song.

The leaves on the ground go crunch, crunch, crunch,
crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
The leaves on the ground go crunch, crunch, crunch.
All through the fall.

Note: Have the child/children pretend they are crunching leaves on the ground while singing this verse.

Other Music / Songs
Autumn Day #247: LDS Church Music: Children's Songbook

Arts & Crafts

Liquid Watercolor Lovely Paper Leaves - Set of 72 An empty canvas to inspire your imagination! Make bright beautiful realistic-looking leaves with Liquid Watercolor and these special diffusing paper leaf shapes! Use droppers Bingo Bottles brushes or spray bottles for awesome effects. Set of 72 white leaves measures 6W x 6H.

Leaf Rubbing
Place your leaf (vein side up) under your piece of paper (tape it on for younger children) and take a crayon and rub your leaf.
Do it in different colors like red, yellow, orange, brown, and green.

Leaf Rubbing Plates - Set of 6 Get into nature and explore 16 different leaves. Set includes 4 x 5 rubbing plates in 16 different designs. Includes a detailed idea guide.

Feather Art
Take a small colored paper plate (or white if you like).
Glue a lot of feathers on the plate.
Make a hole using a hole puncher.
In order to hang it, place a piece of yarn and tie it in a knot or a small piece of pipe cleaner and twist it together.
Let the glue dry.

Crumbled Leaf Art
Collect some leaves. Let dry.  Brush some glue on paper and sprinkle the dried leaves on.

Fall Collage
Go on a walk.   Collect leaves, flowers, twigs, etc.  Brush some glue on paper.  Place the items you collected onto the paper.  Let dry.

Fall Picture
Collect leaves, twigs, rocks, pine needles, etc. Glue them onto a piece of paper.  Make animals, people, or other objects.  Draw or paint arms onto them.

Math
Leaf Math
Cut the number of a leaf pattern you would like.  For example, I cut 12 red maple leaves from Kids Domain (listed on this page).  Laminate.  Write various addition or subtraction problems on index cards. For example, 1+1= 1+2=,... Have the child use this as manipulatives to figure out the answer to the problems on the cards.  Make an activity sheet with the problems you have on the index cards.  Have them write the answers by the problem.  You can have older children write the problems you have on the index cards onto a piece of paper and write the answer by each problem.

Acorn Math
Follow the above directions except use the acorn patterns located at TeachNow.com for this activity.

Acorn
Acorn Alphabet Game
Using a frozen 12 or 16 ounce juice container, place construction paper around it.  Tape the seam closed with clear plastic tape and the top with clear mailing tape.  Go to TeachNow.com under "Free Pattern Archives" has acorn patterns and a squirrel with an acorn. You need to join to download them.  You will need to have one for each container.  Make 26 acorns found at the same site.  Print one page and then cut out 26 onto brown construction paper.  Write the lower case alphabet on one side and the upper case alphabet on the other side.  Laminate or place clear contact paper on them.  Have the child hunt for acorns scattered over the floor, put them in order, and say the alphabet.

Acorn Alphabet File Folder Game or Table Game
You can make separate acorns too.  Use 52 pattern acorns.  Write the lower case alphabet on 26 of them and then the uppercase alphabet on 26 more.  Follow the above directions.  Place one set in a file folder (or on a table or the floor).  Match the correct letter with other matching letter.

The Brave & Bold Little Squirrel - An illustrated story from "The Tales of Edgeriver Wood

Music
Ten Acorns in a Row @ Idea Box