HS Autumn Traditions

Interest Area Changes to Environment

Wooden Truck 

Tractor 

Apron 

Plastic Fruits 

Plastic Vegetables 

Fall Leaves fake and real 

Pot holder 

Pie Pans 

Fall File Folders 

Baskets 

Mini hay stacks 

Farm animals 

Empty Oatmeal canisters 

Hi-Ho Cherry-O Game 

Lincoln Logs 

Football  

Flannel shirt or flannel pieces 

Picnic blanket 

Tongs Acorns (sealed in a plastic bottle- choking hazard)

Plastic rake 

Plastic wheelbarrow 

Scarecrow 

Pumpkin 

Stuffed Squirrel  

Hay  

Corn 

Barn 

Horn of plenty/Cornucopia 

Leaf lacing cards 

Turkey baster 

Work gloves 

Twigs 

Wooden wagon

Create a Farmer’s Market in Dramatic Play. Using aprons, baskets, cash register, apples, etc..

Teaching Concepts for Large Group

1. What happens in the fall? Discuss changes in trees, temperature, clothing, and holidays. 

2. What is another word for Fall? Autumn. This season is between Summer and Winter. There are 4 seasons, name all 4 seasons. 

3. What are the colors of Fall? Yellow, brown, orange, and red. 

4. Fall is harvest time. Harvest means gathering the fruits and vegetables. 

5. Many plants and animals begin to prepare for the Winter in the Fall. How do they do that? What do they do? 

6. What sports are played in the fall?

Teaching Concepts for Small Group

1. Leaf Rubbings 

2. Implement File Folder game 

3. Make a Fall Scene 

4. What to Wear, discuss weather changes and implement with felt pieces, magazine cut outs, etc. 

5. Fall Sorting (egg cartons, acorns, maple seeds, pine cones, leaves, and other fall objects in a container). Encourage children to sort the objects in the egg carton. When activity is complete, be sure to have the container with the materials out of reach (choking hazards). 

6. Color sorting. Sort objects that are Fall colors. 

7. What belongs? After discussing Fall and the changes have pictures from all seasons. Encourage the children to find the items pertaining to Fall only and discuss why and how. 

8. Nature walk collage 

9. Leaf lacing cards 

10. Fall tree with paint and q tips 

11. Fall trees with tissue paper 

12. Leaf patterns 

13. Discuss sizing of the leaves. Big small, sort them accordingly.

Teaching Concepts for Music Movement Wellness IMIL

1. Scarecrow  (tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) 

Scarecrow, scarecrow turn around, 

Scarecrow, scarecrow touch the ground. 

Stand up tall and blink your eyes 

Raise your hands up to the sky. 

Clap your hands then tap your feet. 

Scarecrow, scarecrow touch your toes 

Scarecrow, scarecrow tap your nose. 

Swing your arms so very slow, 

Now real fast to scare the crows 

Raise your head, jump up and down 

Now sit down without a sound. 

2. Fall Into Fall 

Fall into fall, the most colorful season of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, 

Leaves are swirling all around. 

September, October, November, fall is here. 

At the end of December, we know winter’s near. 

Fall into fall, the most colorful season of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, 

Leaves are swirling all around. 

Football, and pumpkins, and hay rack rides abound. 

Most of the leaves that were once on tree, are now upon the ground. 

Fall into fall, the most colorful sea on of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, Leaves are swirling all around. 

The air is getting colder, the wind is getting strong. 

The days are getting shorter, but we keep singing this song. 

Fall into fall, The most colorful season of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, 

Leaves are swirling all around. 

3. All About Autumn 

I want to tell you all about Autumn, 

That’s another name for fall. 

It begins at the end of September, 

When the days are short and the trees are tall. 

Autumn is a time to change the clocks, 

We fall an hour behind. 

We get an extra hour to sleep at night, 

‘Cause that’s what happens when we rewind.

I want to tell you all about Autumn, 

That’s another name for fall. 

It begins at the end of September, 

When the days are short and the trees are tall. 

Autumn is a time for Halloween, 

Wearing costumes while we trick-or-treat. 

Walking around our neighborhood, 

Collecting so much candy to eat. 

I want to tell you all about Autumn, 

That’s another name for fall. 

It begins at the end of September, 

When days are short and the tree are tall. 

Autumn is a time for Thanksgiving, 

Let’s be thankful for the food on our plate. 

And all of the good things in our lives, 

With our family, we celebrate. 

I want to tell you all about Autumn, 

That’s another name for fall. 

It begins at the end of September, 

When the days are short and the trees are tall. 

4. Old McDonald Had A Farm 

5. Fall

Teaching Concepts for Fingerplays

1. Way Up High 

Way up high in the apple tree (hands above head) 

Two little apples smiled at me (form apples with hands still raised) 

I shook that tree as hard as I could (shaking motion) 

Down came the apples (drop hands) 

Yummmmmm. Were they good! (rub stomach)

Teaching Concepts for Outdoor Experiences

1. Leaf Up! 

Children should be gathered up in groups of 2-3, and teachers or the chosen child tosses a leaf into the air. The children can touch it and toss the leaf with any body part except their hands! This encourages movement of the whole body in very creative and funny ways. 

2. Nature walk. 

Collect gatherings in paper bag.

CLASS Concepts

Go on a nature walk around the playground gathering items for classifying, or encourage parents to take the children on a nature walk at home and bring in items from their family walk. Ask the children to brainstorm various ways the items can be sorted: color, shape, size, texture (stiff or flimsy….advanced language), animal, vegetable, or mineral, etc. Engage children in using scientific tools like bug boxes, tweezers, magnifying glasses, and microscopes when gathering and sorting objects. Provide opportunities for children to be creative outside, using items from nature as a paint brushes and collage materials.

Teaching Concepts for Distance Learning

Dance and Freeze

Play music and encourage children to get up and dance, then children must freeze when the music stops.

Fall Into Fall

Fall into fall, the most colorful season of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, 

Leaves are swirling all around. 

September, October, November, fall is here. 

At the end of December, we know winter’s near. 

Fall into fall, the most colorful season of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, 

Leaves are swirling all around. 

Football, and pumpkins, and hay rack rides abound. 

Most of the leaves that were once on tree, are now upon the ground. 

Fall into fall, the most colorful sea on of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, 

Leaves are swirling all around. 

The air is getting colder, the wind is getting strong. 

The days are getting shorter, but we keep singing this song. 

Fall into fall, The most colorful season of all. 

Orange and gold, red, yellow, and brown, 

Leaves are swirling all around.