Sunday, October 13, 2013

Fall

My favorite season is here!!! For the past two weeks the students have been learning about fall and all that it encompasses. This is a wonderful unit to teach because it lends itself to hands on activities for the kiddies. 


Marble painting is always fun. The students got a kick out of it. Once there paintings dried, they cut out leaves and we hung them on our class tree. 


We also made individual fall trees. This particular one was made by making dots using q-tips. It was a great fine motor activity. Each one turned out so different. 


The students also made wreaths for fall. This project took some time but was good to build up their endurance. They looked so cute when finished. 


I asked students to bring in different leaves from their neighborhood. They had so much fun sorting and categorizing the different leaves. Plus they liked to see all the different fall colors. 



The students then got to replicate the different colors using water colors. They really were looking hard to match all the different colors in the leaves. 


We also incorporated fall into our academics. This was a lesson on height where they measured a pumpkin using snap cubes. 

Overall, they had so much fun learning about fall. Now we are moving onto more fun for Halloween.