Standards:
K.I.-A.1 Retell, reenact, dramatize stories
K.I-C.6 Sequence a story
K.III-B.3 Character/setting/important events
K.II-B.2 Predict w/pictures and content
Objectives:
Students will understand the sounds of words. Students will retell and dramatize the story. Students will
sequence the story. Students will name characters, and important event within a story. Students will make predictions during
whole group.
Lesson Summary/Procedures:
Whole Group:
Monday:
Hook: Leaves
Listen to the story Leaf Man. Pause and discuss what is happening in the story and allow children to
predict what they think will happen next.
Discuss the colors of the leaves. Have the children use naming words to describe what they see in the picture.
(setting) Write the responses on the dry erase board. Encourage them to use their imagination.
Tuesday:
Hook: Water Colors
Read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf aloud, tracking the print as you read. Pause for children to study the pictures.
Ask them what of tools were used to create these pictures. Discuss how we to will make watercolor art of leaves. Focus on
setting.
Thursday:
Hook: pumpkin
Read It‘s Pumpkin Time, tracking the print as you read. Discuss the pictures. Ask the children
how this relates to our current season. Recall the sequence in which a pumpkin grows. Focus on the setting.
Friday:
Hook: Straw Hat
Read The Scarecrow‘s Hat, tracking the print as you read. Discuss the pictures. Go on a scavenger
hunt for shapes in the pictures. Ask the children how this relates to our current season. Discuss the importance of a scarecrow.
Discuss the setting.
Center 1:
Watercolor Leaf
Materials: white construction paper, watercolors, crayons, scissors, black
paper.
Have the students trace a simple leaf pattern onto white construction paper. Next, paint the white paper using
watercolor paints. When dry, cut the leaf out and mount on black paper.
Center 2:
Materials: sequencing cards, orange construction paper, glue
Sequence the order in which a pumpkin grows with sequencing cards. Color pictures. Mount on orange construction
paper.
Center 3:
Leaf creations
Materials: leaves, crayons, glue, white construction paper
Take your students on a leaf walk and have them select one leaf each to bring back to class with them. Glue
the leaf on to the paper and add features, such as arms and legs, head, or tail. These look fantastic on the wall, you'll
be surprised how creative your students can be with this project. This is a great activity to accompany the new book by Lois
Ehlert, Leaf Man.
Center 4:
Shape Scarecrow
Materials: various colors of construction paper, glue, crayons
Have your students each trace one circle and one rectangle for the head and body of the scarecrow. Glue the
shapes on to a full size piece of construction paper and add features such as eyes, nose, and mouth with crayons. Use pre-cut
strips of paper to make the arms and legs.
Center 5:
Funny Leaf Person Poem
Materials: coffee filters, food dye, tissue paper, construction paper, droppers,
paper cups, markers
Have your students use the colored water to create a multi-colored coffee filter. Which turns out to be the
body of the Funny Leaf Person. When dry add tissue paper for arms and legs. Have child draw on a face with markers. Add poem
for final product.
I see something green, red and yellow
It is a funny, colorful leafy fellow
He floats through the air
Where he lands, he doesn't care
Wouldn't you like to find
A leaf of this kind?
Center 6:
Dress-Up a Tree for a Season
Materials: leaves, glue, photo-copied trunks, crayons
Discuss that these are going to be materials to make a beautiful tree craft. Before gluing the leaves carefully
look at the leaves and look at the veins in the front and back. Discuss how the leaves receive their food through those veins.
Discuss that acorns and pine cones are seeds from which a tree grows.
Center 7:
Autumn/Fall Landscape
Materials: photo-copied shapes, construction paper
* A piece of light blue craft paper or paint paper light blue before assembly
Have students create a fall scene of their home.
Center 8:
Guided Reading
