Fall and Thanksgiving

Science:
VI.D. Personal safety and Health skill
VI.1  Child practices good habits of personal safety

• Class will measure, thump, smell clean out pumpkins.
• They will observe and safely use tools to clean out the pumpkins.

Math:
Counting Skills
V.A.3 Child counts 1-10 items, with one count per item
V.A.4 Child demonstrates that the order of the counting sequence is always the same, regardless of what is counted

• Collect and count leaves.
• Count pumpkin seeds
• Autumn nut bag (almond, walnut, peanut, accorn, etc) count and sort.

 Geometry and Spatial Sense Skills
V.C.2 Child creates shapes

• make shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, rhombus) with pumpkin seeds.
• Use stencils to make shapes.

Classification and Pattern Skills
V.E.3 child recognizes and creates patterns

• Make patterns out of  beans (ab)
• Make patterns with nuts (almond, walnut, almond, walnut - ab)
• Indian headband - students make a head band and paint a pattern with stamp shapes and count up to five feathers.
• Necklace - students make a necklace with beads (counting and patterns)

Measurement Skills
V.D.3 Child informally recognizes and compares weights of objects or people

• Model using balance scale to compare pumpkins. 
• Provide children pumpkins of different weights to compare and ask, "Which weighs less?" Which weighs more?"

Geometry and Spatial Sense Skills
V.C.3 Child demonstrates use of location words (over, under, above, on, beside, next to, between, in front of, near, fat, etc)

• Use pupmkins to demonstrate  location.
• Where is Turkey?  Students make a book with position words and use little turkeys to represent the words.

Language Arts:

III.A.1 engages in pre-reading and reading-related behaviors

III.A.2 uses books and other written materials to engage in pre-reading behaviors

III.D.1  retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud (teacher discusses characters with class)

III.C.1 names at least 20 upper and at least 20 lower case letters (2nd 9 Weeks - 10 letters)
Books:








Writing: 

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Aesop's Fable - The Oak and the Reeds

IV.A.2 intentionaly uses scribbles/writing to convey meaning (2nd 9 Weeks - draws pictures)

IV.B.2 writes own name (first name or frequenct nickname) not necessarily with full correct spelling or well formed letters (2nd 9 Weeks - first name)

IV.C.1 independently writes some letters on request (not necessarily well formed)

• After reading on of the books for Thanksgiving, students will finish the sentence with a picture or a word/scribles.  Sentence starter will be pre-written on a leaf (orange, yellow, brown, red) then used to make a fall tree.

                   I am thankful for __________________  .

• Turkey Hand Print - Students trace their hand and write what they are thankful for.  Teacher makes uses the hands as feathers for a  big classroom turkey.
• Students write their name "rainbow writing" using fall colors (orange, brown, yellow, red)
• Studens make a Cornocopia place mat and write their name.

Food and Nutrition

Books:















Songs:
Peanut Butter
I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas
Today is Sunday... Dr Jean
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater


Activities:

Talk about food groups, cut out pictures of food and glue it to a plate and discuss what they chose

Graph our favorite fruits

Veggie Rap...

Broccoli, Tomatoes,
Zucchini, Peas.
Pass the Carrots,
More Veggies Please!
Squash and Potatoes,
Green Beans that Snap!
Now you're doing the Vegetable Rap!

• Bring in the real vegetables and use them to retell the RAP! I have enlarged pictures of these too so I can use when the vegetables are no longer useable. We act it out several times.... 
• Sort with the vegetables using large Venn diagram plastic circles.
• Some ideas for sorting/patterning with them are:
  Things I have tasted/things I haven't
  Veggies I like/Veggies I don't like
  Colors
  Large/Small
  Roots/Stems/Flowers/Leaves
  Seeds/No seeds

Patterning with fruit - each student will make a fruit kabob by patterning

Read Gregory the Terrible Eater and do a Venn diagram of what we eat and what Gregory was eating.  Use the food pyramid to think of some good meals to sugest for gregory

Food Colors

Need: newspaper grocery ads and magazines, poster board

Choose the colors and label each sheet of poster board with a color

(orange foods, red foods, green foods, yellow foods, purple foods, blue foods).

The Five Senses

Books

• The Five Senses
• Head Shoulders Knees and Toes-Eric Carle
• The Very Noisy Family
• Discuss how families are the same and different and how children can help their families

Activities:

• Make a texture collage
• Identify flavors
• Squirt shaving cream on the table and let students write in it
• "Mystery Bag"--place an object in a paper sack such as a rock or stuffed animal and let the students touch it and guess what's inside
• Scented play-doh--add kool-aid instead of food coloring or extracts such as peppermint
• make a graph or chart of the student's favorite things to eat
• Present children with a box of small objects such as a crayon, scissors, a pencil, an earring, a cookie cutter, etc. Let children select four or five items from the box. Put the items on the table. Have children close their eyes, and then remove one of the items. Have children open their eyes and ask them to tell you what the missing item is. Continue the game, changing the items

• I Use My Five Senses
  (Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
  Author Unknown I use my eyes to see, I use my eyes to see,
  And when I want to see a star, I use my eyes to see.
  I use my nose to smell, I use my nose to smell,
  And when I want to smell a flower, I use my nose to smell.
  I use my tongue to taste, I use my tongue to taste,
  And when I want to taste a peach, I use my tongue to taste.
  I use my ears to hear, I use my ears to hear,
  And when I want to hear a bird, I use my ears to hear.
  I use my hands to touch, I use my hands to touch,
  And when I want to touch a cat, I use my hands to touch.

• Make a 5 Senses Book or Journal.  Each page has a picture of the body part that relates to one of the five senses.  Ex.  page 1 has a picture of a nose.  The student draws or cuts out a picture of something that he or she can smell.

October / Fall

Books:

• Dr. Suess:  Pale Green Pants--read to class in the dark
• The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything
• Dem Bones
• Clifford's First Halloween
• The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
• Halloween Safety
• Go Away Big Green Monster
• Changes
• La Calabaza
• El Otono
• Tengo Miedo
• Sopa Fuchi

Activities:

• Pumpkin Seriation- small, medium, large and synonyms for those words
• chica, mediana, grande
• Carve a pumpkin--cut it open and take out the seeds
• Pumpkin life cycle storycards
• read book and students glue the life cycle onto
• Headband patterning with Halloween stamps
• Paper plate finger-painted organge and hole-punched to lace and make a lace-up pumpkin
• Mix red and yellow paint to make orange paint
• Use shapes to make a jack-o-lantern face on a paper plate
• Make a Spider to count legs
• Retelling cards with book:  The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything

Fire Safety and Community Helpers

Books:

• Clifford El Bombero
• Vamos Bombero
• Dot Mascota de los Bomberos
• Dot The Fire Dog
• Day in the Life of a Fire Fighter - Owl
• Un Dia en la Vida de el Bombero - Owl
• No Dragons for Tea - talk about safety at home and having a plan for your family
• Firedrill at School by Mrs. Rivera
• My Fire Safety Plan

Unitedstreaming:  "Learn not to burn"

Website:  Dot the Fire Dog - games

Activities:

• Act out "Stop, Drop, and Roll"
• Make a Sack Puppet of a Fireman
• Make a Dalmation with black dots
• Dress a Firefighter (students get to see that firemen are regular people and they dress up)
• Make a ladder - ab pattern by color
• Practice Firedrill - gives teachers the opportunity to explain what they are doing
• Cut out shapes and make a house  (differentiation:  some kids cut their own shapes, others get pre-cut (die cut) shapes.
• Paper plate Fireman with a hat and go over body parts.
• Sort: Hot and Cold pictures