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Autumn
Leaves Are Falling Unit
Songs & Poems
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Five Autumn Leaves
Five autumn
leaves were hanging from a tree
The first one said,
"Soon we'll be free!"
The second one said,
"I'm falling down on the ground!"
The third one said,
"I'll fly to town!"
The fourth one said,
"Let's not wait!"
The fifth one said,
"Isn't fall great?
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It Is
Autumn
Tune:
London Bridge
All the
leaves are falling down,
falling down,
falling down,
All the leaves are falling
down,
It is Autumn!
As
they fall they
touch the ground,
touch the
ground,
touch
the ground,
Red and
yellow,
orange and brown.
It is Autumn!
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Leaves,
Leaves, Falling Down
Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Leaves, leaves, falling down,
Falling on the ground
Red and yellow,
Orange and brown,
Falling on the ground.
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Fall Leaves
Down, Down
Yellow and brown,
Fall the leaves
All over the ground.
Rake them up
In a pile so high
They almost reach
Up to the sky.
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Leaves
Falling on the Ground
Tune:
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Leaves are falling on the ground,
On the ground,
On the ground,
Leaves are falling on the ground
Red, orange, yellow and brown.
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Ten Little Leaves
Tune: Ten
Little Indians
1 little,
2 little,
3 little leaves,
4 little,
5 little,
6 little leaves,
7 little,
8 little,
9 little leaves,
10 little leaves blow away!
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The Leaves are Falling Down
Tune: The Farmer in the Dell
The leaves are falling down.
The leaves are falling down.
School is here and fall is near
The leaves are falling down.
The leaves are falling down.
The leaves are falling down.
Some are red and some are brown
The leaves are falling down.
The leaves are falling down.
The leaves are falling down. They tickle your
nose and touch your toes
The leaves are falling down.
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When the Leaves Are on
the
Ground
When the leaves are on the ground,
Instead of on the trees,
I like to make
a great big pile of them
way up
to my knees
I like to run and jump in them and kick them all
around.
I like the prickly feel of them
And the crickly, crackly sound.
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Books
Language Activities
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Leaf Letter Match
Use a large leaf notepad to write upper and lowercase
letters on. Laminate. To play the game the
children match the leaves.
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Leafy Names
Write
each child's name with glue on a large piece of
construction paper. Have the children rip leaves and
sprinkle onto the glue - SO CUTE!!!
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Leaf Matching Game
Cut
out six different colored fall leaves. Mount
each leaf on an index card and laminate. On another
set of index card write the matching color words.
Laminate. Children can take turns matching up the
leaves with the color words.
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Leaf Book
Using the following text, have students make
illustrations for a take-home book. (Similar pattern
to The Birthday Cake)
A red leaf.
A yellow leaf.
A green leaf.
A purple leaf.
A
brown leaf.
An orange leaf.
Happy Autumn to you!
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Predictable Charts
Each child chooses a leaf, and we write about the
color of the leaves. Use this simple frame for
writing this Predictable Chart with your class:
Joey's leaf is_____.
Ann's leaf is_____.
When we finish writing our Predictable Chart, we
make a class book with the illustrations made from
leaf rubbings done in the color of the leaf.
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Math &
Science Activities
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Leaf Walk
Take a
"Leaf Walk" to collect many kinds of fallen leaves. .
Have each child fill a small brown paper bag with
leaves, twigs, pine needles, pine cones, acorns, seed
pods, dried weeds, and grasses that they find.
You can use the leaves and
other objects for many of your Autumn activities
including:
leaf rubbings
sorting by color, size,
shape and texture
graphing by type, color,
and size
making seasonal collages
other art projects.
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Leaf
Sorting
Place some
of the leaves in your Math Center for sorting. Let
the children observe the leaves with a magnifying
glass to find similarities. Some ways I've seen kids
sort leaves are by color, shape, size, pointy or
smooth edges, ripped or not ripped, stem or no stem.
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Pinecone Bird Feeders
If your class collected
pinecones on their "Leaf Walk" use them to make bird
feeders:
Tie a piece of yarn or
string around the
top of a pine cone. Have each child cover the pine
cone with peanut butter.
Roll the pine cone in bird
seed.
Send home in a Ziploc bag.
Children can hang these
bird feeders at home for birds that don't fly south
for the winter!
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In the Science Center as
well
as the Math Center, my
students often make patterns from our collection of
leaves and other items from our nature collection.
Some of the students like to glue their patterns down,
some like to copy and record them on paper (with
crayon rubbings!)
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Art Activities
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Waxed Paper Leaves
Use
an old cheese grater to grate yellow, orange, red,
green, and brown crayons. Spread the grated crayon
out on waxed paper. Cover with another sheet of waxed
paper. Lay a kitchen towel over these and iron on a
low setting. The colors will run together making
beautiful centers. Use leaf tracers (and a marker!)
to trace leaf shape on these and cut out!
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Leaf Rubbings
Have the child place
a leaf under a piece of paper,
and rub the paper with the side of a peeled crayon,
and the leaf shape will appear.
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Fall Tree with Beautiful Leaves
Use red, orange, green, and yellow paint. Pour into
large paper plates. Have the children place each hand
into a different color. They make a print onto white
construction paper with each hand, then mix their
hands together to make a new color! Then they make
prints with the new color. Use large brown paper bags
for the trunk of the tree, and hang up the beautiful
fall leaves to make a huge fall tree in your
classroom!
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Torn Paper Tree
Have the children first tear red, yellow, orange, and
brown construction paper and place into a
"leaf pile"
on their desk. Give each child a brown rectangle for
the trunk and glue onto large blue paper. I usually
place the glue on the paper and then just let them
stick the torn paper onto it. Adorable!!!
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