Date: October 5-8
Unit: Fall
Student Understandings:
develop an understanding that the weather changes each season of the year
and with these weather changes there are changes in the environment
Essential Questions:
Can students understand that the weather changes?
Can students understand what a season of the year is?
Can students understand that when the weather changes that the seasons of
the year change?
Can students understand that the environment changes?
Can students understand the different stages of plant growth?
Music/Fingerplay/Books: Fall Leaves, Fall
Guided/Independent Discovery:
identify leaves according to color, shape, and size
practice and develop listening skills
sort, count, match, pattern, and graph leaves by color, shape, and size
practice and develop counting one to one correspondence, and numeral
recognition and identification
participate in movement to music and using props while pretending to be a
leaf falling from a tree
participate in a nature walk and share findings
participate identifying and using descriptive language to determine the
fall season, weather changes, and visual changes
participate in art activity painting and glueing paper on a "tree" using
fall colors
attend a presentation by firefighters and role play what a firefighter does
Special Activities:
October 9th-No school for students records/professional development day
