Nature: Seasons-Fall

Tuesday we continued with nature by focusing on the seasons.  I figure that would fit nicely with the trees we just talked about.

We did our warm-up:  calendar, new letter book, new letter path, new letter writing and drawing, new number counting, new number drawing

Then we moved on to fall.  We read a book called The Four Seasons to introduce our next few classes. I printed off a picture of a tree in each of the seasons for her to color.  I can't find the link now (nuts!) but this activity looks pretty fun, too.  Or this one.  Same idea.  (Ok, just found the original link.  Here is the picture we printed out and used).

From there I told her we were going to focus on the season of fall.  We discussed what she saw in that picture and I showed her a few pictures on the iPad of trees in fall.  We then read The Leaf Man.  It is ADORABLE.  Throughout the book, the leaves are being blown and they form different shapes.  She enjoyed guessing what the different shapes were.  Then she took some leaves that I had cut out and made her own leaf man.  It kinda looks like a turkey to me, but she made it and calls it a man.  :)

Finally, I have her some leaves I had cut out of foam and a shoelace and she laced them together into a leaf necklace.  Same idea as lacing cards, it's good for fine motor skills.  She got them all laced together and then wore them the rest of the day!