Fall Unit for Kindergarten and First Grade
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What changes happen in the fall? What do animals and people do? Why do leaves change color, and why does it get cool outside? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week-long fall unit for kindergarten and first grade! This comprehensive unit includes detailed daily lesson plans with literature suggestions. It incorporates science, reading, writing, math, STEAM, handwriting, and art. It also includes QR codes and links to videos that complement the unit study.
Click on the PREVIEW to read each lesson plan, see the Week-at-a-Glance planning sheet, as well as examples of printables and art projects.
Teacher Features You’ll Love
- Detailed daily lesson plans
- Week-at-a-glance planning guide
- Guide for stretching the unit over two weeks
- Key concepts and objectives
- Extensive literature list
- Video links and QR codes
- Differentiated versions of math sheets
- Activity directions and printable templates
What’s Covered in the Unit?
Day 1: Hello, Fall!
- Fall senses
- Fall emergent reader
- Fall A to Z
Day 2: Weather and People in the Fall
- Fall weather changes and activities people do in the fall
- What I wear in the fall
- My favorite thing about fall
Day 3: Animals in the Fall
- How animals prepare for winter
- Squirrel paper bag craft or book
- Squirrel Away game
- Sleeping bear STEAM
Day 4: Plants and Trees in the Fall
- Why do leaves change color and fall from trees
- Leaf hunt
- Leaf rubbing
- Leaf math activities
Day 5: Fall Fun
- Leaf blower game
- Apple hop game
- Fall matching game
- Fall tree painting
Math Connections
- Squirrel Away game for a math center
- Counting within 10, 20, and 100
- Counting by 2 to 20
- Counting groups of 10
- Ordering numbers least to greatest within 20 and 100
- Comparing objects in two sets
- Comparing numbers within 20 and 100 (without >, <, and = signs)
- Addition and subtraction within 10 and 20
- Place value: tens and ones
- Number bonds
- Ten frames
- Graphing
- Measuring with nonstandard units
- Sorting
- Patterns
- Word problems
Literacy Connections
- Fall word wall with real pictures
- “Hello, Fall!” emergent reader (includes digital Google Slides version)
- "I Know It's Fall" emergent reader
- Letter recognition
- Beginning, medial, and ending letter sounds
- -all family words
- -ake family words
- Making words with the letters in scarecrow
- CVC words
- Fluency
- Sight word story
- Beginning, middle and end- beginning story writing
- Correct a mixed-up sentence
- Autumn Adventure writing prompt
- A Funny Fall Story writing prompt
- Fabulous Fall book to create throughout the unit
This unit follows the same format as my Winter Unit for K-1 and Spring Unit for K-1.
I plan on creating a similar summer unit as well. Look for it before summer 2022!
Questions? Feel free to email me at primarythemepark@gmail.com or contact me through the "Product Q & A" tab here.
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