Explorers Club Lesson Plan Theme: Leaves Day Activity
Time
Developmental Skill Literacy
Materials Needed
Story Time
10 min
Song Time
10 min. 15 min.
Literacy
Attached Song Sheet
Sing attached songs
Gross Motor
Collect different leaves from outside
Leaf Imprint
10 min.
Fine Motor
Little Leaf friend craft kit Leaf Coloring Sheet
15 min. Take home
Fine Motor
Leaves collected from outside Crayons Paper Tape Craft Kit Glue Paper Hand-out
Children & adults will take a short walk to back side of GRTC to look for and collect fallen leaves of various shapes and colors to bring inside. Children will tape leaves to back side of their paper and use the flat side of crayon to color a leaf imprint.
Nature Walk and Leaf Collection
Fine motor
Instructions Read: Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Lois Ehlert and engage children with comprehension and participation questions.
Put together pieces to make little leaf friend craft Take home to color at leisure.
Up on the Treetop
Leaves on the Tree
(to the tune of "Up on the Housetop") Up on the treetop
(to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus)
Watch the leaves. They are changing.
The leaves on the trees turn orange and brown. . .orange and brown. .. .orange and brown
You can see.
The leaves on the trees turn orange and brown
Red and orange,
In the town.
Yellow and brown.
The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish. .. swish, swish, swish.. . .Swish, swish, swish
Pretty soon they'll all fall down.
The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish Crunch, crunch, crunch! Walk through the leaves. Crunch, crunch, crunch! Walk through the leaves. Up on the treetop In the fall, Leaves are changing Watch them all!
Down to the ground The leaves on the trees come tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down The leaves on the trees coming tumbling down Down to the ground