Fall is one of the richest seasons for classroom learning. From pumpkins and apples to Halloween and Thanksgiving, autumn provides meaningful opportunities to integrate reading, writing, math, science, and social-emotional learning into engaging seasonal activities. These fall resources are designed to help you maintain strong instructional routines while adding seasonal energy to your classroom.
Are you headed back to your first days of school? Do you have students tell about themselves, review the rules, and acclimate them to the classroom? I developed this Back-to-School…
This elementary Thanksgiving unit helps students understand the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving and gives them tools to make connections between those events. By the end of the…
We did a fun measurement activity on Halloween. We measured pumpkins in both centimeters and inches and figured out which measurement tool is the best for measuring different attributes of pumpkins. Day 2 we reflected on our learning and made some generalizations about measuring objects.
We started our measurement unit this Fall by measuring the attributes of pumpkins. Students had fun working with their team to explore their pumpkins AND this pumpkin activity made a great introduction to measurement. Get a FREE copy of the student sheets for this pumpkin exploration!
October is the perfect time to study and write about creatures that come out at night. Bats, spiders, owls . . . this month is filled with creepy creatures that…
Our favorite October picture books for the primary classroom that are engaging, have good pictures and are well received by my students. These are our classroom favorites that I go back to each and every year during the fall season.
Describe the connections between historical events is a Common Core Standard that is hard to teach! Here is how I taught this standard with the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving. Through this unit, students asked and answered questions, we made a timeline, we read great books, AND we figured out the connection between historical events.
Asking and answering questions can be hard for students! We set up a routine where students would write 6 questions and other students would answer those six questions. This was the perfect way for me to monitor whether students could ask and answer questions about any topic! Here is how we applied it to Thanksgiving.
The month of November is the perfect time to spend in an in-depth study of the events that lead to the first Thanksgiving. In this blog post, I outline how we…
What do you teach on Halloween? Halloween is a day when it’s really hard to teach any significant content, where students come to school in costumes or at least super…
Mix art and math with this fun fall art project. Students create a Fall tree using dots and then use their three-digit addition strategies to figure out how many dots are in their table group. We also extended it to find out the number of dots in our class. A great fun, engaging math AND art activity.
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