Fall Fun

We have been super busy this week with all things fall! Last weekend really got me in the mood for our fall theme this week since the weather here was actually in the 70s (but back up to 80s this week!). Here's a VERY random look at what we've been doing:

Our story from the reading series this week actually had nothing to do with fall, but I'm going to show you what we did with it anyway. We read The Handiest Things in the World then discussed all the the things from the story that hands can do as well as some things we can do with our hands. Then we each wrote our own sentence and attached our handprints to it.

 We also read There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves and the kids loved going back to check the book to make sure we were right when we did our sequencing! This is a freebie here and if you like it, be sure to check out my other fall sequence activities.

We read a informational story about fall then charted all the things we can think of that happen in fall {and yes, The Peanut Festival is the one we're most excited about!}. We painted some leaves to hold our bubble maps.

We also went on a little nature walk to observe fall changes...the kids loved it! It's the little things people!!

During workshops, we've been loving our new fall centers!
A few of my groups are ready for sounding and blending {one of the many reasons I'm a fan of teaching most of our phonics in small group and not everyone working on the same skill!}. They loved matching words to pictures then writing the words!

So engaged!! I love it!

We're also practicing beginning sounds with this roll and cover game. The kids get a kick out of using the candy corn erasers to cover their pictures!

We also worked on this matching game to help practice beginning sounds.

The other big hit this week has been a little sensory tub! I've gotten inspired to keep a sensory tub going all year long, so I'm going to let you hold me accountable on that! I mixed some leaf cards in with some fake leaves and the kids pick a card out, then color the leaf that is the lowercase match of the letter they picked. They loved it!

These centers are all part of my fall pack, which I would love to give away to someone! Leave me a comment telling me what you're doing this weekend and I'll send it over to someone tomorrow!
That's it for now - tomorrow I'll hopefully be back with some scarecrow fun!