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Children will identify signs of autumn.

Vocabulary: colección, balcón, miedo, notar, otoño

Science Focus: seasonal changes

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• A young girl helps her family prepare to honor her grandfather who died.
• This bilingual book will teach kids all they need to know about Day of the Dead.

• Go outside and collect leaves off the ground. Each child will need about five to six leaves of diff erent colors.
• Let children tear up the leaves or use scissors to cut them into small pieces to make “confeti de hojas.”
• Give each child a piece of paper with their name written in large letters. Some children might be able to write their own names.
• Children can trace their names with glue or a glue stick.
• Next, they can sprinkle the colorful leaf confetti onto their names and shake off the excess.
• Finally, hang up the names for a colorful autumn display.

• Make a list of collections children have at home. Ideas might include things like rocks, stuff ed animals, Lego bricks, crayons and markers, or snow globes.
• Pass out the Dibuja la palabra skill sheet.
• Have children color the letters, draw their collection, and finish the sentence.

Skill: sorting, graphing

Materials: natural items, chart paper, markers

• Have kids look for autumn “treasures” during outdoor time. A treasure might be a bellota, hoja, piedra, palo, and so on.
• Have children bring their treasures back to the classroom to make a class autumn collection.
• Then work together to sort the treasures and graph them. ¿Cuántas hojas tiene la colección? ¿Cuántas bellotas? ¿De qué tesoro tienes más o menos cantidad?