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Children will identify signs of autumn.

Vocabulary: autumn, collection, notice, porches, spooky

Science Focus: seasonal changes

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Hector’s collection of acorns makes his classmates laugh—until they realize how many different things people can collect. Every collection is beautiful.

• Go outside and collect leaves off the ground. Each child will need about five to six leaves of different colors.
• Let children tear up the leaves or use scissors to cut them into small pieces to make “leaf confetti.”
• 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, stuffed animals, Lego bricks, crayons and markers, or snow globes.
• Pass out the Draw the Word 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 an acorn, a leaf, a pebble, a stick, 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. How many leaves are in the collection? How many acorns? What types of treasure do you have the most and the least of?