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Fall

Fall. By Ashley Watson. Literature. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf – By Lois Ehlert To Many Pumpkins – Linda White Why Do Leaves Change Color? - Betsy Maestro How Do Apples Grow? - Betsy Maestro Johnny Appleseed – Reeve Lindbergh Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic – Steven Schnur

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Fall

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  1. Fall By Ashley Watson

  2. Literature • Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf – By Lois Ehlert • To Many Pumpkins – Linda White • Why Do Leaves Change Color? - Betsy Maestro • How Do Apples Grow? - Betsy Maestro • Johnny Appleseed – Reeve Lindbergh • Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic – Steven Schnur • Autumn Leaves – Ken Robbins • Fall (The Four Seasons) – Maria Rius

  3. Theme Study • Students will take part in a thematic unit on the fall season. This unit will integrate reading, writing, social studies, science, mathematic, art, music and physical education • Students will develop an understanding of the fall season, weather words and holidays in Fall.

  4. Language Arts Strategies • Students will develop a web about Fall by activating background knowledge and brainstorming • Playing with languages: Students will creatively use language while engaging in class discussions and reading several different types of poems • Through poems and starts students will be able to visualize Fall images • Connecting: students will be able to connect fall to the different types of holidays within it. • Questioning: students will be asked a various of questions on fall

  5. Language Arts Skills • Print: Students will be able to recognize fall words on the Fall Word Wall and apply spelling rules • Grammar: students will understand the proper punctuation in sentences through journal entries • Languages: students will improve their language by analyzing poems and stories by applying rhymes and other poetic devices • Reading: Students will read a variety of stories and poems dealing with Fall • Students will share a published piece with peers

  6. Language Arts: Reading Activities • Students will read a poem the Leaves are Falling – by Nellie Edge • Students will read aloud in partners To Many Pumpkins by Linda White • Students will Read their poems about Fall to each other

  7. Language Arts: Writing Activities • Students will write a poem using the letters of fall. They will write the poem like a name poem and describe fall • Students will create a journal using prompts given by teacher to practice capital letters and periods • Students will write an I am thankful for poem • Student will add winter words on winter word wall

  8. Language Arts: Listening Activities • Students will listen to the book listed that the teacher read out loud • Students will listen to a variety of fall books on tape • Students will listen to poems Fall poems created by students

  9. Language Arts: Viewing Activities • Students will watch classmates performance on Leaves are Falling • Watch a movie exploring autumn • Students will view different fall paintings • Students will take a nature walk to view different types of trees that leaves fall off of and trees that leaves don’t fall off of

  10. Language Arts: Visually Representing activities • Students will create a performance using their bodies to act out the poem Leaves are Falling • Students will take pictures while on the nature walk • Students will be involved in creating a Fall bulletin board • Students will create a Fall Word Wall

  11. Science Activities • Teacher will conduct a science experiment on how leaves change color for student observation • Students will watch a movie Fall • Students will play sink or float with various objects including apples and pumpkins • Students will use their 5 sense to classify different fall objects while blind-folded • Students will take thermometers and measure temperature for the week • Learn life cycle of a pumpkin • Students will view a pumpkin seed under a telescope

  12. Mathematic Activities • Students will collect leaves around school then graph theme according to color, then size, the type of leaf • Students will take found temperatures from science and graph them. • Students will measure the circumference of pumpkins • Students will estimate the amount on leaves on a branch. Then count them • Students will use created turkey counters to complete given subtraction problems

  13. Social Studies Activities • Landscaper come into class to present on occupation • The students dress up in clothing that would be related to fall careers • Field trip to the pumpkin patch to see what a pumpkin farmer does • Have a meteorologist visit the classroom • Students will rake up leaves around playground

  14. Music and Art Activities • Take leaves and use rubbing technique to create patterns. • Create counting turkeys for math using hand turkeys and popsicle sticks • Use pumpkins and tissue paper to create decorative pumpkin • Create maracas using paper plates and dried corn. Then they students create their own rhythms with them • Students create will collage of pre-made cutout shapes about fall

  15. Physical Education Activities • Students play TV tag but instead of naming a T.V show they name an element of fall • Students will play football • Students will play leaf tag (teams are split into 4 groups each is a different fall color, one team has to try and tag all the other leaves • Nature walk

  16. Technology • Students while in computer class will play a variety of fall games • Students will watch Discover Fall and Winter • Students will take pictures while on a nature walk • Students will listen to books on tape that will be in a literacy center

  17. Grouping Patterns • Large groups: Students will participate in large group activities during PE, nature walk, field trips and class discussions and viewing how leaves change experiments, create graphs as a class • Small groups: Students will be put in small groups while creating art projects, shared reading and small group discussions • Individual: students will write journal entries, poems and solve math problems

  18. Assessments • Observation of class based on created checklist • Students will create a learning log. • Students will create visual representations • Correct spelling of words on word wall • Informal observation on poem performance • Correct completion of worksheets

  19. Schedule

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  21. Lesson Plan • Subject(s) Area: Math • Materials Needed: • Leaves • Outwear for outside • White board with bar graph out line • Standards: • 1.3.1. Identify and display various forms of data in their world using charts and graphs; e.g., tally charts and bar graphs • Objectives: • TLW analyze different types of leaves • TLW create different graphs using leaves • TLW interpret what the different graphs mean • Learning Activities: • Students will show students all the different type of leaves they will find • Students will go on nature walk with teacher • Teacher will direct students of what leaves they should pick up • Class will discuss the types of leaves they see and where they see them • Students will discover bar graphs and how they are created • Students will organize leaves in a bar graph formation on the board • Organize leaves by size, type and color • After each graph is made class will discuss what each graph represents • Assessment: • Teacher will observe in class participation and understand as a whole. • Teacher will ask individual students questions in order to ensure understands

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