It's Already October!

I can hardly believe that it is already October! I haven't been on this blog since school started up in August and I am sorry. The start of the year was CRAZY!! Four days into the new school year, I moved rooms all while teaching!! It was very stressful. Then I had to establish the routines all over again in the new space and now before I know it, its the 24th of October! I promise I will be better this year and back on track.

We started our Fall unit this past week. I love fall. It is my favorite season. 

The vocabulary focus for this unit is: red, green, yellow, orange, brown, rake, raking, leaf pile, trunk, branch, squirrel acorn, scarecrow, leaves and tree.

Last week we read "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves." The kids just love this book! They think it is hysterical that she swallows all of those things! As a follow up lesson we did a sequencing page. We colored the objects by listening for directions. Then we glued the pictures in order.

To get the free printables click here

We also took a nature hike around the school. We went looking for tree trunks, leaves, branches etc. The kiddos just love it! Everyone gets a clipboard and has to color in the picture as we find it. I wish I could remember where I got this from, but I don't sorry!

The following day we reviewed the nature items we collected and made sensory jars. Oh how fun that was!! The kiddos were very excited. This was a language lesson. The focus was "I will put a ___________ in the jar." Each kiddo had to say what they wanted to put in the jar. I found the sensory jar idea on Pinterest. Find it on my board here.

To fill the jars put the nature items in first. Then add 1/3 cup vegetable oil and fill the rest with water colored yellow! 

At the writing center the next day, we drew pictures of the jars. 

Happy fall!