Today is “cooking” day. It’s not easy to find snack ideas for “fall” that don’t involve gooping up something with orange icing….so instead of going for the fall theme you can emphasize the leaves instead. Supply a variety of “leaves”-a couple of types of lettuce, spinach, cabbage, perhaps some turnip greens, Swiss chard, kale….whatever you can find at your supermarket. Let the children help wash them and tear them. If you have access to a salad spinner, this is a super-fun way to get the kids involved!
Put each type of leaf in a separate bowl to begin with and have the students sample the leaves individually, then let them mix them into a salad. During the activity or later during circle time, have the students vote on what their favorite type of leaf was. Graph this on a premade graph using chart paper (this is a great time to use that “all-purpose graph” that I mentioned earlier in the week!). This is a great math, science, social studies, health and nutrition, and oral motor activity!
For those of you who have picky eaters in your class, you could still do this activity and let the students who won’t eat the “leaves” choose their favorite leaf based on its texture, shape, color…whatever they like about it. An alternative snack could be a smoothie made with orange juice and whatever fruits you want to add, so at least it has a “fall color” connection
For math, let your students do leaf patterning. Provide sentence strips with leaf cutouts in different colors patterned in whatever ways you wish-by shape, color, etc. Students can either extend or copy the pattern, whatever they are able to do. This is a great time to incorporate discrete trial teaching, working on visual discrimination, colors, patterning, and one-to-one correspondence.
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