September
Arts and Crafts
Write upper case letters on one leaf and lower case on the other for students to match. (The same things can be done with acorns too. Use two shades of brown for your acorn. The acorn top gets numbers and the bottom dots, or upper case letters on top, and lower case on bottom.)Apple or Fall Tree
brown, green, and red paint
2 sponges
For Apple Tree - Using one sponge, paint child's hand and arm to the elbow with brown paint. Place on paper to form tree trunk and branches. When dry, lightly coat other sponge with green paint, and make the leaves. Use green paint for leaves, dip fingers in red paint and dot on for the apples.
For Fall Tree - Paint the arm and hand for tree trunk and branches. Use several sponges and red, yellow, orange, brown, green, and purple to make a beautiful fall tree.
Fun With Leaves
Cut several different leaf shapes out of various fall colors and laminate. Have children match the colors. Talk about how this makes a pair, like shoes, socks, etc.Write numbers on one leaf and corresponding dots on another leaf. Student have to match the correct number with the dots. OR
Science
Nature Walk
Give each student a small brown paper bag labeled "Brown Things," or "Fall Things." Go on a walk outside and let students find the appropriate things to put in their bag. Have each student take their bag to circle time and share one of the things they found. Staple shut and sent home. Be sure to scout the area first so you know where to go. (You may need to "place" some things for them to find).
Leaf Rubbings
collect various kinds of leaves
white paper
masking tape
colored chalk or peeled crayons
Tape the leaf to the table. Rub peeled crayon or chalk over the paper to make a leaf print.
Books
The Kissing Hand
~ Audrey Penn
Dinofours - It's Time For School ~ Steve Metzger
Clifford's First School Day ~ Norman Bridwell
Froggy Goes to School ~ Jonathan London
The Puppy Who Went to School ~ Gail Herman
Huggly Goes to School ~ Tedd Arnold
Off to School Baby Duck ~ Amy Hest
Bitty Goes to School ~ Elizabeth Greenaway
Franklin Goes to School ~ Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
Pooh's First Day of School ~ Kathleen Zoehfeld
The Shy Scarecrow ~ Mary Packard
The Little Scarecrow Boy ~ Margaret Wise Brown
Nuts to You ~ Lois Ehlert
Fall Changes ~ Ellen Senisi
When Autumn Comes ~ Robert Maass
Clifford's First Autumn ~ Norman Birdwell
We Love Fall ~ Diane Muldrow
Autumn Days ~ Ann Schweninger
Clifford the Big Red Dog - The Big Leaf Pile ~ adapted by Josephine Page
Fresh Fall Leaves ~ Betsy Franco
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf ~ Lois Ehlert
Autumn Leaves ~ Ken Robbins
I am a Leaf ~ Jean Marzollo
Fall Leaves ~ Mary Packard
The Apple Pie Tree ~ Zoe Hall
Little Mouse and the Big Red Apple ~ A. H. Benjamin and Gwyneth Williamson
I am an Apple ~ Jean Marzollo
Dinofours - It's Apple-Picking Day ~ Steve Metzger
The Season's of Arnold's Apple Tree ~ Gail Gibbons
Recipes
Squirmy-Wormy Apples
Mix the peanut butter and granola together and then stuff the apple with the mixture. Place one end of the gummy worm in the peanut butter mixture.
Use Ritz cracker as tree top. Frost the treetop with the green frosting. Place the treetop at the top of the graham cracker tree trunk. Add apples to the treetop.
Easy Blender Applesauce
apples
cinnamon
sugar to taste
water (just enough to make mixture mushy)
blender
Peel, core and quarter the apples. Put a few apple pieces into the blender at a time, and blend with water. When all the apples are in, add the cinnamon and sugar and continue blending until mushy. Scoop out the sauce and serve in cups.
Haystacks
12 oz. package semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips, or butterscotch chips
2 C Chinese noodles
Melt chocolate chips. Stir in Chinese noodles. Drop by teaspoonful on waxed paper. Refrigerate or freeze.
Crunchy Mix
Mix up different types of cereals, nuts and pretzels. Serve with milk for a snack.
Songs and Fingerplays
Greeting Song (Are You Sleeping?)
It’s time for you to go.
It’s time for you to go.
I’ll see you __________
It’s time for you to go.
At Our School (Clementine)
At our school today we played,
Today we played, today we played.
At our school today we played,
It was lots of fun!
At our school today we __________
(read a story, colored a picture, had a snack, etc)
Cleanup Song (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
It is time to clean up now,
Clean up, clean up, we know how.
We can clean up; you will see
Just how clean our room can be.
It is time to clean up now,
Clean up, clean up, clean up - wow!
School Time (Found a Peanut)
At our school, at our school,
At our school today,
We worked so hard, so very hard,
Then we went outside to play.
No More Wiggles
I wiggle my fingers. I wiggle my toes.
I wiggle my shoulders. I wiggle my nose.
Now there are no more wiggles left in me Shhh.....
So I will be as quiet, as quiet can be.
Ten Little Fingers
I have ten little fingers and they belong to me.
I can make them do things, would you like to see?
I can shut them up tight, or open them wide;
I can put them together, or make them all hide.
I can make them jump high, I can make them go low,
I can fold them up quietly and hold them just so.
Sing a Song of Days (Frere Jacques)
Every week has seven days.
See how many you can say.
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday. What’s today?
Seven Days in a Week (Found a Peanut)
There are seven days,
There are seven days,
There are seven days in a week
(repeat all)
Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, WednesdayHere comes the wind on a windy day,
A windy day, a windy day.
Here comes the wind on a windy day,
To blow them all away.
Falling, Falling (Twinkle, Twinkle)
Falling, falling, falling leaves,
Mother Nature, did you sneeze?
Red ones, yellow ones, orange and brown,
Big ones, little ones on the ground.
Falling, falling, falling leaves,
Mother Nature, did you sneeze?
The Leaves on the Trees (The Wheels on the Bus)
The leaves on the trees turn orange and red,
Orange and red, orange and red.
The leaves on the trees turn orange and red,
All through the town.
The leaves on the trees come tumbling down,
Tumbling down, tumbling down,
The leaves on the trees come tumbling down,
All through the town.
The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish,
The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish,
All through the town.
Five Red Apples
Five red apples, sweet to the core,
One fell down and then there were four
Four red apples sitting in a tree,
One fell down and then there were three.
Three red apples one for you, and you, and you,
One fell down and then there were two
Two red apples shining in the sun,
One fell down and then there were one.
One red apple left all alone
One fell down and then there were none.
Ten Red Apples
Ten red apples growing on a tree;
Five for you, and five for me.
Let's shake that tree just so,
And then red apples will fall below.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.
Five Little Apples
Five little apples, lying on the floor.
One rolls away, and that leaves four.
Four little apples hanging on a tree.
I'll pick one, and that leaves three.
Three little apples, I know what I'll do!
'll put one in my pocket, and that leaves two.
Two little apples sitting in the sun.
I'll pick one up, and that leaves one.
One little apple waiting in my lunch
I'll eat it up with a crunch, crunch, crunch.
Two Little Apples (This Old Man)
Way up high, in a tree
Two red apples smiled at me.
So I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down came the apples
Ummm, ummm, good!
Parent-Child Time
~ Make apple pies or apple sauce with your child
~ Serve apple juice
~ Plant an apple seed with your child. Water it together and discuss its growth
~ Provide apple snacks
~ Walk through the woods, collect nuts, and listen to the sounds of the woods
~ Take a leaf walk with your child. Look for different colored leaves
~ Discuss the colors of the leaves. Let your child find other items that are the same color
~ Collect leaves for crayon rubbings
~ Iron leaves between two sheets of wax paper. Frame with construction paper and hang in a window
Calendars
SETON PRESCHOOL CALENDARCLASSROOM CALENDARS
Monday-Wednesday-Friday AM
Tuesday-Thursday AM
Tuesday-Thursday PM
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teaching. It is not my intention to take credit for someone else's original idea.
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