Week of November 16
Unit 3.1 Fall
Study Focus
Leaves
Study Focus Description: This
study focuses on the
season of fall and things that change or happen in the environment during this
time of the year.
Student Understandings:
Students will develop an
understanding that the weather changes each season of the year and with these
weather changes there are changes in the environment.
Guiding Questions:
1.
Can students understand that the
weather changes?
2.
Can students understand what a
season of the year is?
3.
Can students understand that
when the weather changes that the seasons of the year change?
4.
Can students understand that the
environment changes?
5. Can
students understand the different stages of plant growth?
Guiding Vocabulary: fall,
autumn, spring, summer, seasons, weather, leaves, apples, pumpkins, seed,
vine, tree, seed, sprout, plant, squirrels, acorns, harvest
MONDAY
Morning Meeting--The students will tell things they are
thankful for.
Guided Literacy--The stundents will complete a circle map
with facts they know about leaves.
Small Group--The students sort leaves by color.
Tuesday
Morning Meeting-- The students
will tell things they are thankful for.
Guided Literacy--The students will sing "The Leaves Are
Falling Down."
(sung to the tune of "The Farmer In the Dell")
The leaves are falling down.
The leaves are falling down.
Red, orange, yellow, and brown.
The leaves are falling down.
Small Group--The students will put acorns with letters on
them in order to spell their first names.
Wednesday
Morning Meeting--The students will tell things they are
thankful for.
Guided Literacy--The students will sing "Leaves Are
Falling."
Leaves are fal-ling down.
Slow-ly to the ground.
Some are gold. Some are brown.
Nev-er make a sound.
Small Group--The students will create a fall tree.
Thursday
Morning Meeting--The students will tell things they are
thankful for.
Guided Literacy--The students will sing "Five Little
Leaves."
Five little leaves up in a tree;
They're as bright as they can be.
Along comes the wind blowing all around,
And one little leaf falls to the ground.
Small Group--The students will create leaf patterns.
Friday
Morning Meeting--The students will tell things they are
thankful for.
Guided Literacy--The students will "Leaves Are Falling All
Around."
Leaves are falling all around-
Red,
Yellow,
Orange,
And brown.
Twirling, swirling to the ground-
Look how many leaves I've found.
Small Group--The students will go on a leaf walk to collect
fall leaves.
CENTERS:
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Art
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Pumpkin scented playdough
Pumpkin playdough letter mats
Add brown construction paper to creat trunks and dot paint
for leaves
Add fall stamps
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Blocks
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Encourage the children to build an apple orchard & pumpkin
patch
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Computer
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www.starfall.com
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Dramatic Play
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Encourage the children to make apple & pumpkin pie
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Library
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Add fall books
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Listening
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Fall
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Math
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Add leaves to sort by color and type
Add squirrel to acorn numeral match
Add scarecrows with numerals and corn for 1 to 1
correspondence
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Music
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Encourage the children to sing "Five Little Pumpkins "
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Sand & Water
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Add small pumpkins
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Science
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Add small pumpkins and scale
Add pumpkin & apple seeds
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Table Toys
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Add leaf memory game
Add turkey feather color match
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Writing
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Add fall-related word cards
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