Card Details: Seasons: Fall, Spring

Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: A Little Apple Seed

Sung to 'Eensy, Weensy, Spider'

Once a little apple seed
Was planted in the ground.
Down came the raindrops,
Falling all around.
Out came the big sun,
Bright as bright could be.
And that little apple seed grew up
To be an apple tree.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Add a Tree

To develop the concept that some trees change with the seasons, prepare a tree mural at the beginning of each season.
Using butcher paper, draw a large tree shape and hang it on the wall.
To emphasize seasonal changes, have children add appropriate collage bits or paint at the beginning of each season.
Fall - brown, yellow, red, purple, orange paper bits
Winter - bare tree with brown leaves on ground and gray painted sky.
Spring - popcorn buds and small green paper bits or paint
Summer - fully covered with green paper bits and paint

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple A Day Snack

Serve a different apple each day for snack. Red apples, green, yellow, and even brown (russet). Make an apple dip by stirring some brown sugar into plain yogert and a sprinkle of cinnamon if desired.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Magic

Perform a little science magic with this simple experiment. You will need a large bowl of water, a carrot and an apple.
First, ask the children what they think will happen when an apple or a carrot is put in the bowl. Place the carrot in the bowl first; then remove it and place the apple in the bowl. What happens?
Why? Explain to the children that foods like carrots and apples vary greatly in the amount of air they contain. Carrot matter is packed very tightly and is very heavy, making the carrot sink. The apple is not packed as tightly and has many air spaces, which allow it to float. Slice the apple and carrot for more observation.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Muffins

Make some yummy apple muffins. Take a packaged mix of oatmeal muffin mix and add a cup of peeled and chopped apples. Bake as usual. Truly delicious!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Sauce Snack

Make a potful of applesauce with the children in the morning and serve for afternoon snack! Preparing it is lots of fun and presents a wonderful opportunity to talk with the children. What must we do first, what comes next, watch and see what happens to the apples.
8 apples, peeled and sliced
1 cup water
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Heat apples in water until boiling. Reduce heat and simmer 5-10 minutes until tender; stir periodically and add water if necessary. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cook until apples are mushy. Cool and serve.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Seeds

Before cutting open an apple, ask the children to predict how many seeds there will be inside. Cut the apple in half horizontally and let the children observe the 'star' that holds the seeds. Count the seeds with the children and have them compare the number with their predictions. Try the experiment with another apple. Does it have the same number of seeds as the first one? Try the same experiment using a different coloured apple.
Extension: Set out apple seeds (with several of them cut in half) and let the children examine them with a magnifying glass. If desired, provide other kinds of fruit seeds for comparing.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Seeds

Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Song

Sung to 'Have You Ever Seen A Lassie?'

Have you ever seen an apple, an apple, an apple,
Have you ever seen an apple, that grows on a tree?
A red one, a yellow one, a red one, a yellow one.
Have you ever seen an apple, that grows on a tree?

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Tree

Decorate your room with apple trees. Draw a tree on large kraft paper. Let the children paint the trunk, branches and leaves. Then add some apples that have been drawn by the children. You can make red, green and yellow apple trees.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apple Tree Finger Play

Away up high in the apple tree,
(Form tree with hands)
Two red apples smiled at me.
(Smile)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (shake hands)
And down came the apples,
Mmm...were they good!!! (rub tummy)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Apples Rock-n-Roll

tune of Shortnin Bread

Apples are a rockin' rockin' rockin'
Apples are a rockin' ...all around.
Apples are a rockin' rockin' rockin'
Shake that tree and ALL FALL DOWN.

Contributed by Karen (l.a.petersen@worldnet.att.net)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Autumn Breezes

Materials: Construction paper, scissors, feathers
- Call a circle to discuss Autumn Breezes.
- Spark interest with questions such as: How does a breeze feel? How does the wind feel? If you were an autumn breeze, what would you like to push, lift, or blow against?
- After the breeze discussion each child chooses a feather and a sheet of construction paper.
- The children rold their papers in half. They stand up, drop their feathers, and create a breeze by waving their papers. Who can keep the feather up?
- Try it with - a leaf, a cotton ball, a balloon, a kleenex, a paper cup, paper, fan. Which falls quickest? Tell the children that they choose one to share experience at home.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Autumn Leaves

Materials: Construction paper, waxed paper, old crayon (red, orange and yellow, plastic bag, hammer, iron
Preparation: Cut construction paper into leaf frames. Place crayons in a plastic bag and let the children help pound them into little pieces with a hammer. Cut waxed paper into sheets. Plug in iron. Let the children place crayon pieces between two sheets of waxed paper. Then press over the papers with an iron to melt the crayons and waxed paper sheets together. Put leaf frames around the finished picutres and hang them in a window.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Autumn Leaves

Sung to 'Mulberry Bush'

Summer leaves are hanging,
Hanging, hanging
Summer leaves are hanging
All day long. (stand with arms outstretched)
Autumn leaves are turning colours...All day long. (turn around)
Autumn leaves are falling down...All day long. (lower self to floor)
Autumn leaves are dancing....All day long. (dance)
Autumn leave are being raked.....All day long. (a few children can gather the group closer)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Autumn Leaves

Sung to 'Mary Had A Little Lamb'

Autumn leaves are falling down.....Yellow, red and brown.

Rake them up as they fall down.....Yellow, red and brown.

Here comes the wind on a windy day...And blows them all away.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Autumn Leaves All Around Me

Sung to 'Mary Had A Little Lamb'

Autumn leaves are all around me.......What colours do you see?

Red and Yellow, Gold and Brown......Falling gracefully.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Back To School Party

For a back to school party I will be making an apple cake for the kids.We will talk about our new teachers and the feelings we have about school. Also we will play back to school games. I'm still thinking of some, but my ideas so far are acting out the song Wheels on the Bus, pencil, pencil Who has the pencil ( Like buton, button) or I'm going to school and in my backpack I will bring....(and the kids try to guess what is in the backpack.) We will also decorate our own lunch bags for a whole weeks worth of lunches. To top off the day I am giving out back to school goodie bags with items like pencils, stickers, lunch snacks and a juice box. It will be a great day. Contributed by Karen

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Baked Apples Snack

Make baked apples for the children to enjoy at snack time. Wash and core one apple per child. Place apples upright in a baking dish. Fill centres of apples with raisins and brown sugar. Sprinkle some cinnamon on top. Bake for one hour at 350. Serve with vanilla ice cream. Sure to be a hit!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Beginnings

New school -
New teacher -
New friends -
New books.
I feel new, too.
Do you?

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Black Squirrel

Black squirrel,
I hear a sound.
Tap, tap,
On the ground.
The nuts are tumbling, tumbling, all around.

Black squirrel,
No time to play.
Jack Frost is on his way.
The nuts are,
Gathering, gathering, all around.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Changing Seasons

sung to 'I'm a Little Teapot'

I'm a little person who's aware
Of the changes in the air.
First the leaves turn brown and then they fall.
Then the snow comes lightly down.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Climbing Up The Apple Tree

Climbing up the apple tree, (climb in place)
Swinging on a limb! (Raise arms above head, away left and right)
If I hear a robin, I may (cup hand near ear)
Sing along with him! (sing tra la la)
'And Robin, if you fly away, (Put hands over eyes)
Here's what I think I'll do: (Point with index finger)
I'll wish a pair of sparrow wings (gently flap arms at side and move around)
And fly away with you!'

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Cornstarch Impressions

Materials: Cornstarch, baking soda, water, saucepan, waxed paper, nature objects such as leaves, twigs and flowers
Preparation: In a saucepan, mix together 1 cup cornstarch, 2 cups baking soda, and 1 1/4 cups water. Cook over medium heat until the mixture thickens. Cool, then flatten mixture between sheets of waxed paper. Let the children lay leaves, twigs, flowers or other nature objects on top of the cornstarch mixture and press them down firmly. Then have them remove the objects to see the detailed impressions they made.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Dissecting Apples

Show your children three apples - one red, one green, and one yellow. Ask them to name the colours. Then discuss how they are all apples despite their different colours.
Take a knife and cut each one open side-ways. Point out how the seeds inside from a star. Discuss how the apples are all different on the outside, yet the same on the inside.
Turn your discussion to people. Talk about how people, like apples, are all different on the outside, yet the same on the inside.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Dry Leaves

Materials: Green construction paper, dry fall leaves picked up from the ground, glue, brushes
Preparation: Cut a fairly large leaf shape from construction paper for each child. Have the children brush glue on their leaf shapes. Then let them crinkle dry leaves and scatter the pieces all over the glue.
Variation:
Draw bare tree figures on pieces of construction paper. Then let the children crumple up the dry leaves and glue the pieces of their papers.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Eat An Apple

Eat an apple; (Bring right hand to mouth)
Save the core. (Close right hand in fist)
Plant the seeds. (Bend down touch hand to ground)
And grow some more. (Extend both arms out)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Eat An Apple

Eat an apple.
Save the core.
Plant the seeds.
And grow some more!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Fall Colours

Draw a large tree on kraft paper. Have the children trace their hands onto kraft paper and paint them fall colours (red, yellow and orange). These become the leaves for the tree. The more the better. Glue the hands onto the tree and you have a beautiful handmade creation.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: First Day

Shiny, sharpened pencils,
Desks all in a row.
It's the first day of school and
I don't want to go.

A very different teacher,
With a strange sounding name.
I want my last year's teacher -
Things will never be the same!

I remember all the things we learned, And all the things we made. The truth is, if you want to know, I'm really afraid.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Harvest Time

Sung to 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'

Harvest Time is here again,
In the garden we must dig,
Carrots, radishes, onions too,
All so fresh and yummy too.
Harvest Time is here again,
Won't be long till Fall is here.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Have You Ever Had An Apple?

Sung to 'Have You Ever Seen A Lassie?'

Have you ever had an apple, an apple, an apple?
Have you ever had an apple and heard it go 'crunch'?

Have you ever had an orange, an orange, an orange? Have you ever had an orange and heard it go 'slurp'?

Have you ever had a banana, a banana, a banana? Have you ever had a banana and heard it go 'mush'?

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Learning With Apples

Counting: Divide apples in halves or fourths. Let your children decide how many apples will be needed for everyone to receive a piece.
Counting: When you cut open an apple, let your children count the number of seeds inside.
Feeling: Place three different fruits - such as an orange, a banana, and a apple - in a bag. Let your children touch each fruit without looking in the bag. Can they identify the apple by its characteristics?
Smelling: Cut open three different fruits. Have your children close their eyes and try to identify each by its smell.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Leaves

Five red leaves, five and no more (hold up 5 fingers)
The caterpillar ate one, now there are four (thumb down)
Four red leaves, that's easy to see.
Along came a rainstorm, now there are three. (index down)
Three red leaves, nothing much to do.
A big wind blew, now two! (middle down)
Two red leaves, that's not much fun.
I glued one on my paper (ring down)
Now there is one. (hold up pinky)
Hang on, pretty red leaf! Your branches won't break.
You're one less leaf for me to rake!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Leaves

Sung to 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'

All join hands and circle around
While we wathc the leaves fall down.
See them twirling to the ground.
See them skipping here and there
See them flipping in the air.
Autumn leaves so peacefully
Falling, falling from the tree.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Leaves Are Falling

Sung to 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'

Leaves are falling round the town
Watch them fall right on the ground
Autumn's coming, it is true
Then comes winter just for you
Leaves are falling round the town
Falling, falling all around.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Leaves, Leaves Falling Down

Sung to: 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat'

Leaves, leaves falling down, (wiggle fingers downward)
Falling on the ground.
Red, Yellow, Orange and Brown,
Triangle, Oval and Round.

(With each thumb toughing and each forefinger touching, make shapes.)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Lucky Leaves

Yellow leaves tumbling, (move hands like falling leaves)
falling through the air; (repeat action)
Falling in my front yard.
Falling everywhere.
Oh, that I could catch one (grab one in the air)
Before it blows away!
A yellow leaf, caught in the air,
Will bring my luck, they say!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: My Oak Tree

The oak tree just outside my door
Has its lovely leaves no more,
And now, I wonder, What's it for?
Not shade, nor home for birds to sing.
When leaves return, I'll welcome Spring!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Pantomine Autumn

Have the children in your class pantomine the following actions. Discuss why they are a part of the Autumn season.
1. Squirrels gathering nuts.
2. Leaves floating to the ground.
3. People raking fallen leaves and putting them in baskets.
4. Birds flying south.
5. Animals getting ready to hibernate.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Paper Plate Apples

Let the children paint the back sides of paper plates red to make 'apple halves.' When the paint has dried, attach precut construction paper leaves and stems. Then let the children each glue a few apple seeds in the centers of the white sides of their plates. (Use seeds from other activities in this unit.)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Raking Leaves

My poor back will surely break,
If one more leaf I have to rake!
Crusty, rusty brown leaves!
Dusty, blustery red leaves!
Crunching, bunching, scrunching beneath my feet.
In a pile of crispy leaves, I'll find a welcome seat!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Scarecrow Decorating

Materials: Picture of a scarecrow, glue, pieces of material, buttons, noodles, anything that can be used to decorate the scarecrow.
Let the children decorate. Cut the scarecrows out and use them as a bulletin board border for a display of completed work. Add a heading such as, 'We're Not Scared of Hard Work', or 'This Class Is Not Scared of Hard Work.'

DISCUSS - The reason for scarecrows and the damage done to farmers crops by birds and animals. Ask what other kind of devices could be used to scare away these pests. Provide crayons and paper for children to draw pictures of these substitute scarecrows. Produce a picture or poster which shows a large crow and discuss.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Stuffed Baked Apples

Ingrediants: Firm baking apples, Butter or marg., Sugar, Hot water, Filling for Apples
Fillings: raisins or walnuts or honey or banana slices or prunes or nutmeg or brown sugar or coconut or cinnamon candies or orange slices or pineapple.
Toppings: ice cream or peanut butter or whipped cream or cheese or vanilla pudding or granola or custard or lemon sherbet or jelly
Core apples and sprinkle with 1 t. sugar. Set in baking dish. Stuff apple (combine several if you with). Pour hot water to cover bottom of dish. Bake 400 30-35 min. Spoon liquid over apples every 10 min. while cooking.Cool

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Ten Red Apples

Here I have five apples. (hold up five fingers on right hand)
And here are five again. (hold up both hands)
How many apples altogether?
Why, five and five make ten!

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Ten Red Apples

Make 10 red felt apples and hide a felt worm behind one.

Ten red apples growing on a tree (hold up ten fingers)
Five for you and five for me. (show one hand and then the other)
There's one little worm that you can't see (wiggle one finger)
Where, oh where, could that worm be? (Hold hands out questioningly)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: The Apple Tree

Away up high in an apple tree, (raise arms high)
Two red apples smiled at me (Smile and hold up two fingers)
I shook that tree as hard as I could; (Shake hands)
Down came those apples, (Bring hands down)
And mmmmm, were they good. (Rub tummy)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: The Farmer's Tree

Here is the tree with leaves so green.
Here are the apples that hang between.
When the wind blows the apples fall.
Here is a basket to gather them all.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: The Leaves On The Trees

Sung to 'The Wheels On The Bus'

The leaves on the trees turn orange and red..........All through the town.

The leaves on the trees come tumbling down.....All through the town.

The leaves on the ground go swish....All through the town.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Two Little Apples

Sung to 'This Old Man')

Way up high, in a tree:
(raise hands over head)
Two red apples smiled at me
(smile)
So I shook that tree as har-r-d as I could;
(Pretend to shake tree)
Down came the apples, Ummm, they were good!!!!
(Rub tummy)

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Veggie Shuffle

Children will identify smellls. Materials: Six-ounce paper cups, foil, rubber bands, toothpick, tray, vegetables that have strong aroma--green pepper, onion, tomato, radish...
1. Cut a small portion from each veg and place in a paper cup. Place the remainders on the tray so children can see. Spaced suffieciently so smells do not mingle.
2. Cover each cup with foil and hold in place with a rubber band. Poke several holes in foil and put on tray.
3. Ask the children to smell and to identify the vegetable by name.
4. Ask the child to place the cup next to the veg she or he smells.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Title: Window Painting

Paint a fall scene on your window. Use the following recipe and the paint is easily removed. Give each child a window to decorate.
Window Paint
2 Tbsp powdered tempera paint
1 Tbsp warm water
1 tsp Joy dish washing liquid

Measure powdered paint into a container. Mix in water thoroughly to achieve a smooth paste. Add JOY, mixing completely, but gently, to avoid making paint too sudsy. Dries on windows in 5 - 10 minutes. Washes off easily with a solution of water and vinegar.

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Category: Seasons: Fall

Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Aluminum Foil Leaves

Pieces of aluminum foil leaves glue construction paper.

Set out pieces of aluminum foil and a variety of fall leaves. Let each child select a leaf, place it under a piece of foil and gently press and rub the foil with his or her hand to get a leaf print. Then hae the children glue their leaf prints to the construction paper. This is a great art project but it also canbe a sciene project. They can see the veins and stems and this can start a really great discussion.

Contributed by Cheryl

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Fall Puzzle Trees

Our group made fall trees using puzzle pieces painted in fall colours to use as the leaves, then glued onto brown construction paper trunks. The kids had fun, the trees are adorable, and I found a way to use those puzzle pieces that don't quite add up to a full puzzle.

Contributed by Tina (tinab@cdlcorp.com)

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Leaf Bracelets

Wrap a piece of masking tape (sticky side out) around each child's wrist.
Go on a nature walk and have children collect one leaf from each of several trees, sticking it on their leaf bracelet.
When the class returns, sit in circle. Teacher holds up each leaf shape in turn and lets children identify similar leaf on their bracelets.
Let children wear their bracelets home and check the types of leaves in their yards.

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Leaf Mobiles

You will need a cereal box, thread, scissors and tape. Cut a 1 inch strip the length of the box. Tape it into a circle. Punch 6 holes in the strip.
Have the children collect colorful fall leaves on a nature walk. After the leaves have been collected, press them between pieces of wax paper. Punch a hole in the wax paper leaves and tie them with string of different lengths to the circlar strip. Each child could make his/her own or you can use this as a group project.

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Leaf Prints

Materials: Liquid tempera, Brushes, Fresh leaves, Paper, Brayers (Available at art supply stores)
Procedure:
1. Paint the back of the leaves with tempera (not too much.)
2. Place paper on top of the leaves (paint side up.)
3. Use a brayer to roll over paper.
4. Lift and see leaf print.

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Leaf Rubbings

To help children notice the veins in leaves and the different shapes of leaves, let them place a variety of leaves (underside up) under a piece of light coloured construction paper.
Using the sides of crayons that have had the paper covering removed, children make crayon rubbings of the leaves.

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Leaf What Do You See?

Red leaf, red leaf what do you see?
I see an orange leaf looking at me.

Orange leaf, orange leaf what do you see?
I see a yellow leaf looking at me.

Yellow leaf, yellow leaf what do you see?
I see a green leaf looking at me.

Green leaf, green leaf what do you see?
I see a brown leaf looking at me.

Contributed by (amramsey@thegrid.net)

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Little Leaves

tune: Ten Little Indians

1 little, 2 little, 3 little leaves
4 little, 5 little, 6 little leaves
7 little, 8 little, 9 little leaves
Blow them all away. Whoosh!

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: One Little Leaf

One little leaf, two little leaves,
Three little leaves today.
Four little leaves, five little leaves
Blow them all away.

(Hold up fingers one at a time, then blow them all down.)

Contributed by Holly

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Raking Leaves

I like to rake the leaves (raking motion with hands)
Into a great big hump (pretend to pile leaves)
Then I move back a bit
Bend my knees and jump!

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: The Leaves Are Falling Down

Down, Down
Down, down,
Yellow and brown,
The leaves are falling
All over town.

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Category: Seasons: Fall: Leaves

Title: Welcome Wreath

Put toilet paper rolls, paint and brushes on table. When each child comes to the table; let him paint a roll. When child is finished, stand roll up on end to dry completely. When dry, string rolls on piece of yarn and tie.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: A Daffodil

A little yellow cup
A little yellow frill
A little yellow star
And that's a daffodil.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: A Kite

I often wish and wish that I
Could be a kite up in the sky
And ride upon the breeze and go
Whichever way I chanced to blow.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: A Robin

I wonder how
a robin hears?
I never yet
have seen his ears.
But I have seen him
tip his head
And pull a worm
right out of bed.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: A Wish

A hundred furry kittens
On a pussy willow tree ---
I wish they'd all turn into cats
And come and play with me!

Who will tell us
Spring is here?
Pussy-Will-O!

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: All Fools' Day

The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fools' Day;
But why the people call it so
Not I, nor they themselves do know
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.
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Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: April

Rain has such fun in April, It patters through the trees,
Talking to all the leaf buds, And robins that it sees.

It splashes through the puddles, And skips along the walks,
Goes coasting down the grass blades, And dandelion stalks.

It dips in all the flowers, And when the clouds blow by
It paints with flower colours, A rainbow in the sky.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: April

April is made of
Such wonderful things;
Sunbeams and tulips
And butterfly wings.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: April Fool

Small April sobbed,
'I'm going to cry!
Please give me a cloud
To wipe my eye!'

Then, 'April fool!'
She laughed instead
And smiled a rainbow
Overhead!

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: April Poems

In April, fleecy clouds
Float by
Like cotton candy
In the sky.
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April is tip-toeing into the land
Touching each leaf with her delicate hand.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your
head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools
on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools
in the gutter.
The rain plays a
little-sleep-song on our roof at night.
And I love the rain.
Langston Hughes
Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: April Shower

Mix a little sunshine
With an April shower.
Drop it in a garden bed
And up pops a flower.
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Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Baby Bunnies

Have dck color a white sheet of paper all green (scribbling is just perfect) that have them glue on 10-15 1/2 inch pom poms or pieces of cotton balls - wa la you now have 'Baby Bunnies Hiding in the Grass!!'

Contributed by: Leslie (Zeigler )

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Baby Robins

Five baby robins watch Daddy Robin soar; (hold up 5 fing)
One baby leaves the nest, and now there are four. (thumb)
Four baby robins, high up in a tree;
One flies to catch a worm,and now there are three.(index)
Three baby robins had nothing to do;
One tried his new-found wing,and then there were 2.(mid.)
Two baby robins frolicked in the sun;
Another robin chased a bug, and then there was one.(ring)
One baby robin, left all alone;
And this baby robin decided to stay home!

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Carrot Top Garden

Cut the tops off of three or four carrots. Have your children place them in a shallow dish and water them daily. The carrot tops should be sitting in 1/4 inch water at all times.
Sit back and watch your carrot tops sprout new beautiful green foliage. Children especially love 'planting' carrot tops because the greens sprout quickly and they are quite attractive.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Daffadowndilly

Daffadowndilly
Has come up to town,
In a yellow petticoat
And a green gown.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Daffodils

In spite of cold and chills
That usher in the early spring
We have the daffodils.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Daffodils

Yellow, yellow daffodils
You're dancing in the sun.
Yellow, yellow daffodils
You tell me spring has come.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Delightful Kites

Materials: 9 in. X 12 in. Art Paper, scraps of art paper in assorted colours, scissors and paste, pencil and eraser, ruler, crepe paper strips
Procedure:
Fold and cut out kite shape. Use various colours of paper scraps to create spring kite designs. (flowers, butterflies, birds) Use crepe paper for tails.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Egg Carton Nursery

Materials: Egg carton, 12 half eggshells, potting soil, marigold seeds, teaspoon, water.
Procedure: Let your children fill an egg carton with empty halves of egg shells. Have them fill each shell with potting soil and carefully plant one or two marigold seeds in each shell. Water each shell with a teaspoon of water. Seeds will sprout more quickly if the lid of the egg carton is kept closed so that the seeds will stay warm. When the seeds sprout, have the children replant the seedlings outside, crushing each shell as they place it into the ground.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Flower Garden

Sung to: The Farmer In The Dell

The farmer plants the seeds
The farmer plants the seeds
Hi, Ho and Cherry O
The farmer plants the seeds

The rain begins to fall....
The sun begins to shine....
The plants begin to grow.....
The buds all open up.....
The flowers smile at me......

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Flower Printing

Materials: Paper, Liquid tempera, Flowers (fresh), Shallow pans (pie tin or cake pan)
Procedure:
1. Give each child a piece of paper.
2. Make three or four different colors of paint. Put into shallow pans.
3. Let child gently dip a flower into paint.
4. Blot flower on paper. Gently here, also.
5. Repeat and repeat to see the light effect.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Grow A Spring Village In A Saucer

Materials: Pietin with good drainage, Potting soil, Wheat berries or rye grass seed, Clear plastic wrap, Spray bottle filled with water, Miniature items(toys, animals, (cake decorations))
Fill the pietin with soil. Sprinkle seeds over entire soil. Lightly spray soil with water until it is damp, not soggy. Cover with plastic wrap to retain moisture. Place in indirect sunlight, and keep soil moist until seeds germinate (about 4-5 days). After seeds germinate remove plastic and place in a sunny window. Allow the children to decorate. (miniature toys, twig trees, tissue paper flowers, clay figures) Pathways can be added to the village by clipping grass.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Grow Sprouts In An Eggshell

Materials: Eggshell with top 1/4 broken off, Ring from bottom of towel roll to hold eggshell, 3 damp cotton balls, 1/8 teaspoon alfalfa seeds, Fine tip markers
This miniature gardening activity is especially fun for preschool gardeners. Set the empty eggshell in towel ring. Draw a face on the eggshell with coloured markers. Place damp cotton balls inside eggshell. Sprinkle seeds over the cotton and keep cotton damp. In two or three days, the seeds will begin to sprout. Put in a sunny spot. As the sprouts grow, your child can give the egg friend a 'haircut'. Sprinkle the nutritious clippings on a salad or add to a sandwich at lunchtime.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Hand Print Flowers

You will need: a paper plate for each child, green construction paper, hand shape traced on paper, glue and paint.
Have the children trace their hands on paper about 5 - 7 times. Cut out and paint colour of choice. Paint the paper plate (it becomes centre of flower). Cut stem and leaves from green construction paper.
Have the children glue dry painted hands to outside of paper plate (these become petals). Then glue stem and leaves. Let flower dry completely and then display. These flowers make a welcomed addition to any room.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Hello

Spring comes hurrying
Over the hill
Phoning the news
Through a daffodil.
L.A. Garrett

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Hippety-hop and hippity-ho

Hippety-hop and hippity-ho!
Let the rain come and let the wind blow.
Laughing and singing to school we go.
Hippety-hop and hippety-ho!

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Hoppity

Christopher Robin goes
Hoppity, hoppity,
Hoppity, hoppity, hop.
Whenever I tell him
Politely to stop it, he
Says he can't possibly stop.

If he stopped hopping, he couldn't go anywhere,
Poor little Christopher
Couldn't go anywhere.....
That's why he *always* goes
Hoppity, hoppity, hoppity, hoppity, hop.A.A. Milne of course)
Contributed by Jean Roberts `

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Hunt For Seeds

Put a selection of fruits and vegetables out. Ask the children to tell you which items have seeds inside them. Have the children sort them into seed and no seed piles. Open them up to see what you find out. Keep the seeds for other activities. Slice the fruits and vegetables and enjoy.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: I See The Wind

Sung to 'Here We Go Around The Mulberry Bush'

I see the wind when the leaves dance by,
I see the wind when the clothes wave 'Hi'
I see the wind when the trees bend low,
I see the wind when the flags all blow.

I see the wind when the kites fly high,
I see the wind when the clouds float by,
I see the wind when it blows my hair,
I see the wind most everywhere.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: I Wish I Were A Windmill

Sung to: Did You Ever See A Lassie

Oh, I wihs I were a windmill, a windmill, a windmill,
Oh, I wish I were a windmill, I know what I'd do;
I'd swing my arms this way, I'd swing my arms that way.
Oh, I wish I were a windmill, I know what I'd do.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: I'll Plant A Little Seed

Sung to: I'm A Little Teapot

I'll plant a little seed in the dark, dark ground.
Out comes the yellow sun, big and round.
Down comes the cool rain, soft and slow.
Up comes the little seed, grow, grow, grow!

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: In April Fleecy Clouds

In April fleecy clouds
Float by
Like cotton candy
In the sky.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: It Is Springtime

Sung to: London Bridge

Leaves are growing on the trees,on the trees,on the trees
Leaves are growing on the trees, It is springtime.

All the grass is turning green.......

See the birdies build their nest......

Watch the flowers start to grow......

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Kites

Five bright kites I bought at the store. (five fingers)
Along came a strong wind, and now I have four. (thumb)
Four bright kites flying over the sea.
Along came a big wave, and now I have three. (index)
Three bright kites, I'll give one to you.
Three bright kites, now I have two. (middle finger)
Two bright kites flew too near to the sun.
Poor little kites! Now I have one. (ring down)
One bright kite - that's enough for me,
I'll keep it away from the kite - eating tree!

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: March

The March wind blows
Winter away
And sweeps the streets
From day to day.

March brings surprises
First, the day's hot,
Then it starts snowing,
Likely as not.

Hurry, March wind,
Hurry along.
We like to hear you Sing your song.
Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: March Winds And April Showers

March winds and April showers
Popping up are pretty flowers
A kite flying in the sun
Aren't you glad that spring's begun

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: May Day Baskets

Use a bunch of large pastell envelopes (a lot of stores will give these to you if you ask to save some from cards that don't sell). Seal env. and using pinking shears cut the env. in half so you have 2 almost-squares. Fold over about 3/4 inch on all 3 closed sides. Let the kids decorate front with crayons, stickers, etc. On the other side, write 'Happy May Day from Mary's Day Care'. When finished turn the env. into a bag by flatening the bottom (spread out sides where it was folded) and folding the sides in and under. This sounds confusing, but it is very simple. Put a little Easter grass and a few wrapped candy in each basket. (a small silk blossom looks pretty too) Deliver baskets to all the neigbours - good PR. Contributed by Barb (barbkay@marshallnet.com)

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: My Kite

Sung to: The Farmer In The Dell
My kite is up so high,
My kite is up so high,
Oh my..just watch it fly,
My kite is up so high.

My kite is falling down......
Oh no...it's down so low....
The wind has caught my kite....
What fun...I'm on the run....
My kite is up so high......
Oh my....just watch it fly.....

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: My Spring Garden

Here is my little garden.
Some seeds I'm going to sow.
Here is my rake to rake the ground.
Here is my handy hoe.
Here is the big, round, yellow sun,
The sun warms everything.
Here are the rain clouds in the sky.
The birds will start to sing.
Little plants will wake up soon,
And lift their sleepy heads.
Little plants will grow and grow,
From their warm earth beds.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Oh, Did You Hear?

*Oh, Did You Hear?*
Oh, did you hear?
The President has measles,
The Principal has just burned down the school,
Your hair is filled with jam and purple weasels.

April Fool!
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Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Plant Experiment

Set out two identical plants. Help the children place one plant in a dark closet and the other on a sunny windowsill. Water the plants as needed. Check the plants every day and have the children observe the differences between them. Which plant is healthier? Why?
Plants need water to grow. To demonstrate, purchase two identical plants. Water one plant but not the other. Let the children observe what happens.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Plant Health

Have the children put some dirt in a plastic cup. Give them some seeds to plant and discuss why it is important to water plants and set them in the sun.
As an experiment, children plant seeds in two cups. Then have them set the cups in the sun, but only water one of the plants. Ask the children to observe what happens. As a second part of the experiment, children plant seeds in another two cups, water both cups, but then place one cup in the sun and the other one in a dark place. Discuss what they observe happens. A discussion of healthy plants could easily lead to healthy people. Like plants, people need certain things to grow healthy and strong. food,water,shelter,sunshine,exercise and love

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Prop Box For A Rainy Day

Fill box with materials for a warm rainy day. You may want to include rain boots, rain hat, umbrella, raincoat. This can be set up for children to do some dramatic play or imaginative games.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Pussy Willow

Tiny little pussy willow
Softer than a baby's pillow,
Sometimes when I stroke your fur
I can almost hear you purr.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Rain

There's rain that's rain
And rain that's sleet
And rain that turns to snow.
There's April showers
Just in time
To make the flowers grow.
There's rain that's mist
And rain that's hail,
And one kind that's a frizzle,
It isn't sleet
It isn't snow.
It's just a silly drizzle.
Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Rain

Rain is _______
But rain is not _______
Rain is good for _______
But rain is not good for ________
Rain is fun when _______
But rain isn't fun when _______
I ______ the rain.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Rain Experiment

Shows how rain is made. Materials: Tea kettle, a pie pan, water, ice cubes
Procedure: Bring the water to a boil. Place the pie pan filled with 5-10 ice cubes over the steam. Do not let children hold the pie pan. As water drops form, remove the pie pan from the steam and move it over so that the children can see what is happening. Encourage inquiry: What has happened? Where did the water come from? How could the ice cubes affect eh steam? When water falls, what do we call it? Where did the steam (or water vapor) come from? Explain briefly that water on the earth, when it is warmed, turns into water vapor and rises into the sky,forming clouds. When temp. of clouds gets cold/rain.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Rain for Me

Come, come, come and see,
It will rain just for me!
'It will rain ___ (cheese) __'
said the ____ (mouse) __.
'It will rain ______'
said the _______.
'It will rain _____'
said the _____.
etc.
See, see, just for me!

This would go well with *Cloudy, With a Chance of
Meatballs*.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Rain page 1

The Rain Game

Pitter patter (tap hands gently on knees)
Rain getting louder (hit knees harder and faster)
Thunder (keep hands going faster and add stomping feet)
Lightning (keep feet going and slap hands together to make a cracking sound)

Do this entire routine before singing 'Rain'

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Rain, Rain Falling Down

Sung to: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Rain, rain falling down,
Falling on the ground,
Pitter, patter, pitter, patter,
What a lovely (squishy, noisy, silly etc.) sound.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Raindrop Counting

More or less raindrop counting:
Divide into two a piece of bristol board or construction paper. Place a paper cloud at the top of each section. Place a different number of raindrops under each cloud. Have child count the number of raindrops under each cloud. Ask child various questions as he/she is counting. Which cloud has the most raindrops?
Which cloud has the least amount of raindrops?
Variation: 1) older children, use more raindrops for counting, or add the concept of adding and subtracting.
2) Raindrops can be various colours to help children learn their colours.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Raindrop Magic

Materials: White construction paper 12 in. X 8 in., crayons, dry blue tempera paint, flour sifter, raindrops (outside)
Procedure: Colour a rainy day scene on white construction paper. Read Rain by Peter Spier as a source of inspiration. It is important crayon be applied evenly. Tell students not to colour in the raindrops or to totally cover the sky area. Save that for later. Line students up against one wall with their coats on. The pictures should be on their desks. Walk around with a flour sifter full of dry blue tempera paint. Sift a thin layer of paint over the sky area of the picture. Each child takes his picture out and lets rain wet it. It will take only a minute. Let dry.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Raindrops

Pitter-patter raindrops (wiggle fingers to imitate falling rain)
Falling from the sky,
Here is my umbrella (hands over head)
To keep me safe and dry!
When the rain is over
And the sun begins to glow (make large circle with arms)
Little flowers start to bud (cup hands together)
And grow and grow and grow (spread hands apart slowly)

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Riddle

Soft as silk,
But won't drink milk.
Gray like fur,
But can't purr.
What am I? (pussy willow)

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Season Song

Sung to: Frere Jacques

It is spring time!
It is spring time!
Winter's gone.
Winter's gone.
Summer time is coming.
Summer time is coming.
It won't be long.
It won't be long.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Shoji Screens (Japanese)

Materials: Wax paper, Liquid starch, Brushes, Yarn, Hole punch, Flower petals, tissue paper, leaves, etc., Pinking shears.
Procedure:
1. Give each child 12 in. long wax paper.
2. Let child paint paper entirely with liquid starch.
3. Have plenty of grass, pine needles, flower petals, tissue, spangles, etc. available for the children to arrange on top of starch.
4. Press another waxed paper over the arrangement, gently press with finger.
5.Cut with pinking shears. Punch hole and hang in window.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Sing A Song Of Raindrops

Sing a song of raindrops.
I love every one!
Running through the rain is
A special springtime fun!
Mary McFarland Leister
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The rain is raining all around
It rains on field and tree,
It rains on little children here
And on the ships at sea.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Snow In April

Snow in April
Is the pits
I'm about
To have six fits.
And yet my son
Will happy be
More snow for him
To go and ski!
J.R. (apologies for the bad poetry)

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Solution

When I went out to play
The day had just begun.
'Put on your coat', said the wind.
'Take off your coat', said the sun.

Now who was in the right?
And which advice was better?
I solved the problem for myself -
I just put on my sweater.

Contributed by: Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Spring

I love spring! Spring is new.
It's new blades of grass.
It's rain on a lass.
It's violets and rain.
It's a wood-scented lane.
It's a new bird song.
It's days growing long.
It's a tree in bud and puddles of mud.
It's birds in a tree and buzz from a bee.
It's kites in the sky.
It's spring. That's why......
I love spring.
Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Spring

Tulips yellow
Tulips red
Standing tall
In their garden bed!

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Spring Flowers

Tulips
Red tulips, yellow tulips, rainbow colours too.
You lift your heads
In my flower beds,
And say, 'How do you do?'

The Crocus

Hello, tiny crocus.
Your arrival makes me sing.
I know you're pushing winter out.
And making room for Spring!

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Spring Flowers

Trace around 1 hand on yellow paper
Trace around 1 hand on red paper
Cut them out
Cut out one of each a long & short stem out of green paper
Cut out four leaves out of green paper
Glue the cut out hands on the stems on brown paper, add leaves.
From -'Hands of a Child'

Contributed by Leslie (Zeigler )

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Spring Morning

Sung to: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
This is the way the bunny hops, bunny hops, bunny hops,
This is the way the bunny hops,
On a spring time morning.

This is the way the blue bird flies...

This is the way the little chick walks......

This is the way the little duck swims......

This is the way the little lamb runs.....
This is the way the children play.....

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Spring, Rain

Mrs. Golightly's goloshes
Are roomy and large;
Through water she slithers and sloshes,
As safe as a barge.

When other at home must be stopping,
To market she goes,
And returns later on with her shopping
Tucked into her toes.

James Reeves Contributed by Marion (Melbourne, Australia)

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Spring Song

Frogs croak,
Rains soak.
Chicks peep.
Crickets leap.
Bees hum.
Robins come.
Birds sing.
It's Spring!

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Springtime

Sung to: Skip to My Lou

Springtime, Springtime, how do you do?
Springtime, Springtime, how do you do?
Springtime, Springtime, glad to see you.
Flowers, sunshine are part of you.

Springtime colours everywhere........
Bright and cheerful colours too.
Blossoms, buds and greenery too.

Springtime animals everywhere....Birds, bees and butterflies too. Springtime, Springtime glad to see you.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Springtime Snacks

I Never Eat Leaves! Do I?
Today eat only the leafy parts of plants. Cabbage, lettuce and spinach for a Triple Green salad. (add a sweet dressing)
Let's Get To The Root Of This
Explain to the children that sometimes we eat roots. Carrot, turnip, potatoes and beets.
Don't Eat The Flowers
Examine a head of broccoli and cauliflower with a magnifying glass. Serve with dip.
Stems
Celery and asparagus are the stem of a plant. Fill celery with peanut butter or cheese.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Ten Brown Seeds (page 1)

Ten brown seeds lay straight in a row. Said, 'Now it is time for us to grow.'
Up, up the first one shoots;
Up, up from its little seed roots.
Up, up the second one is seen;
Up, up in its little coat of green.
Up, up, up the third one's head;
Comes, up, up from its little earth bead.
Up, up, up the fourth one goes;
Up, up, up we can see its little nose;
Up, up, up the fifth one pops;
Up through the soil and then it stops.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Ten Brown Seeds (page 2)

Up, up, up the sixth we see;
Up it comes and it looks at me.
Up, up, up the seventh one peeps;
Up, up, up through the soil it leaps.
Up, up, up the eighth one we spy;
Up, up, up to stretch to the sky.
Up, up, up the ninth one springs;
Up, up, up and everything sings.
up, up, up the tenth grows fast;
Up, up, up and it is the last.
Up, up, up - the seeds everyone
Become ten plants to smile at the sun.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Big Round Sun

The big round sun in the springtime sky
(form large circle with arms)

Winked at a cloud that was passing by.
(wink eye)

The little cloud laughed as it scattered rain,
(flutter fingers downward)

Then out came the big round sun again.
(form large circle with arms)

Contributed by (TrickyTric@aol.com)

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Cold Has Passed

The cold has passed
It's warm at last
Let's show a big smile
It's spring for awhile

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Garden Song

Sung to: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Dig, dig, dig your garden, Make it smooth and neat,
Push, push, push that shovel, Push it with your feet.
Plant, plant, plant your seed, Push them down an inch,
Cover your seeds with some soil, Cover with a pinch.
Water, water, water your seeds,This will help them sprout
Sprinkle lightly & lets not pourAnd don't let them dryout
Sun, sun,sunshine, It will turn them green,
Carrots & radishes & peppers, too. Tomatoes & some beans.
Watch, watch, watch them grow, See them grow so tall.
Put a scarecrow in the ground, To protect them all.
Pick, pick, pick your feast, Cook some veggie soup,
You'll have lots and lots to eat,Enough to feed the group

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Rain

Who likes the rain?
'I,' said the duck, 'I call it fun.
For I have my little red rubbers on.
They make a cunning three-toed track
In the soft cool mud as I pass.
Quack, quack!
I like the rain.'

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Reason

Rabbits and squirrels
Are furry and fat,
And all of the chickens
Have feathers and that
Is why when it's raining
They need not stay in
The way children do
Who have only their skin.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Seed

Sung to: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

I'm a little planted seed.
See the rain falling on me.
Sun shines down through the trees.
These are the things I need indeed.
Oh, how happy they make me.
I'm a little growing seed.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Thermometer

The thermometer has
A little red line
That jumps right up
When the weather is fine.
But when it is cold
As everyone knows
Down to the little round bulb
It goes.
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Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Wind

Sung to: The Muffin Man

The wind is full of tricks today,
It almost blew me far away.
It almost knocked me off my feet,
As I came walking down the street!

The next time that I go outside.
The wind won't take me for a ride.
I know just what I will do.
I'll put some glue on the bottom of my shoe!

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Wind Is Blowing

Sung to: Mary Had A Little Lamb

The wind is blowing all around, all around, all around,
The wind is blowing all around, all around the air.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: The Windy Game

March is a good month to talk about the wind. Place a ping pong ball at the centre of a table. Each player attempts to blow the ball off the table by being as windy as possible.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Thermometer Reading

Spring is a good time to help children learn how to read a thermometer and place it on a level where young children can read it easily. Then make a play thermometer that they can manipulate themselves.
Procedure: Cut a small slit at the top and bottom of the piece of cardboard. Colour half the ribbon red. Thread the ribbon through the slits and tie the ends together in the back. Mark the front of the cardboard with the degree calibrations fround on a real thermometer. As the children observe the temperature changes during the day on the real thermometer, have them adjust their make-believe thermometer by moving the red ribbon up or down.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Weather

If the weather is wet
We must not fret.
If the weather is dry
We must not cry.
If the weather is warm
We must not storm.
If the weather is cold
We must not scold.
Whatever the weather
We are friends together.
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Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Weather Song

Sung to 'BINGO'

There was a time when we got wet and rainy was the weather.
R-A-I-N-Y, R-A-I-N-Y, R-A-I-N-Y, and rainy was the weather.

There was a time when we got hot and sunny was the weather.............
There was a time when we got cold and snowy was the weather..........
There was a time when we were blown and windy was the weather.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: When I Look Into The Sky

Sung to 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'

When I look into the sky.
I can see the clouds go by.
They don't ever make a sound.
Letting wind push them around.
Some go fast and some go slow.
I wonder where the clouds all go.

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: When Springtime Is Here

Sung to: Here We Go' Round the Mulberry Bush

This is the way we wake up and yawn,
Wake up and yawn, wake up and yawn,
This is the way we wake up and yawn
When springtime is here.
This is the way we sprout our roots...
This is the way we pop through the dirt...
This is the way we stretch and grow....
This is the way we shoot up so tall...
This is the way we open our buds.....
This is the way we bend in the breeze....
This is the way we smile at the sun......

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Wind

No one can tell me
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.

It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Wind Socks

Wind Socks - (After reading 'The Wind Blew'
To make a wind sock, cut off the bottom of a paper lunch bag. Decorate the bag with glitter paint, neon construc paper, stickers, etc. Then attach crepe paper streamers to one end of the bag. Attach a construction paper handle to the opposite end of the bag. After they have dried take outside and enjoy!!! - Mailbox Mag March 1995
Contributed by :
Leslie Zeigler

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Category: Seasons: Spring

Title: Winds of March

Winds of March, we welcome you,
There is work for you to do.
Work and play and blow all day
Blow the winter cold away.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardening

Title: Growing Beans

Provide each child with a baby food jar or plastic see through container. Put cotton in the bottom of the container (about 1/4 full). Place 2 beans between the cotton and glass and 2 beans on top of the cotton. Dampen the cotton and keep damp. Place on window ledge.

Watch them grow!

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardens

Title: A Little Seed For Me To Sow

A little seed for me to sow
A little earth to make it grow
A little hole, a little pat,
A little wish, and that is that,
A little sun, a little shower.
A little while -
And then, a flower!

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardens

Title: Seeds Poem

Seeds are funny, funny things,
Some have stickers, Some have wings,
Some are big, Some are small,
Some round and flat, Some like a ball.
Some are hidden inside of fruit
Some in pods or underground roots.
Some seeds are foods, And good to eat,
Like corn or beans, Or nuts for a treat.
But whatever the kind, Or wherever it's found -
Most plants grow, From a seed in the ground.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardens

Title: Sunflower House

1. Plan how big you want it to be. (4'X4' is good) Dig up the sod using a shovel and spade. Shake dirt from sod before discarding.
2. Plant the sunflower seeds. (Sunflowers don't transplant well-make sure frost season is over) 1 seed every 6-8inches)
3. When the sunflowers start to grow (it wont take long)you can plant morning glories or sweetpeas between the sunflowers if you'd like to male it pretty. These flowers will both
climb the sunflowers.
4.You can leave a spot for a door in the front and back, and a smaller spot for a window or 2 on the sides. If they are
watered well they will really grow tall. 10-12 ft
Contributed by terese

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardens

Title: Sweet Potato Vines

To help children see the growth of roots and leaves, 'plant' a sweet potato in a jar of water.
Insert toothpicks in spoke fashion around the middle of the potato.
Rest the toothpicks on top of a jar, with bottom half of the potato resting in water in the jar.
Place in lighted area and watch the vine and roots grow.

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardens

Title: The Flower

Here's a green leaf, (show hand)
And here's a green leaf, (show other hand)
That you see, makes two (hold up 2 fingers)
Here is a bud (cup hands together)
That makes a flower
Watch it bloom, for you! (open cupped hands gradually)

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardens

Title: The Little Plant

In the heart of a seed
Buried deep, so deep,
A little plant, Lay fast asleep.

'Wake,' said the sunshine,
'And creep to the light.'
'Wake,' said the voice, Of the raindrops bright.

The little plant heard
And it rose to see
What the wonderful, Outside world might be.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring: Gardens, Worms

Title: Worm Rhymn

They always, always pick on me.
They never, ever leave me be.
I know what I'll do and it's no Joke
I'll eat some worms and then I'll croak,
And when I'm gone you wait and see,
They'll all be sorry that they picked on me.

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Category: Seasons: Spring, March

Title: Lamb or Lion

When March comes in gently, With soft skies of blue
And warm happy breezes, And crocus buds, too,
March begins like a lamb, Sweet, gentle and kind.
But you'd better beware, For you'll surely find
That the end of the month, Will be stormy and cold.
Like a lion it'll roar, Rough, growly and bold.

If March begins windy, And stormy and gray,
If it's too cold outside, To happily play,
The lion's here first, And he's not so nice.
You should be indoors, Take my advice.
But wonderful weather, Is coming, they say,
By the end of the month, The lamb's here to stay!

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Category: Seasons: Spring, March

Title: Lion or Lamb

When entering as a lion
With a young gusty roar,
March scatters hats and balls and bats
And bangs at every door.

When suddenly lost things return,
Doors shut without a slam,
You know old March is going out,
Behaving like a lamb.

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring, March

Title: March

Now when it's March
It's really spring.
There's a bright new look
On everything!

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring, March

Title: March

When the rain is splashing down,
On the fields and in the town,
Singing winds begin to blow, And the flowers start to grow.
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How glad I am when I have seen
Those tender leaves of gentle green.
They warm my heart and make it sing
For now I know at last it's spring!
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Spring makes the world a happy place,
You see a smile on every face.
Flowers come out and birds arrive.
Oh, isn't it grand to be alive?

Contributed by Jean Roberts

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Category: Seasons: Spring, Rain

Title: The Dark Gray Clouds

The dark gray clouds, The great gray clouds,
The black rolling clouds are elephants
Going down to the sea for water.
They draw up the water in their trunks.
They march back again across the sky.
They spray the earth with water, And men say it is raining.
Frames: (From India)
Let the rain ___________.
Let the rain ___________.
Let the rain ___________.
The rain makes ___________.
The rain makes ___________.
The rain makes ___________. And I love the rain!

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