This month’s thematic theme for preschoolers is PUMPKINS! Like September, there are other autumn topics sprinkled in the midst--and even a couple apple activities from September (if you didn't get to them already).
Wondering how this works? Use the compiled list below as a starting point for your own homeschooling or use for supplemental activities. I will post monthly thematic units as the year continues. Next month's theme...THANKSGIVING, of course!
Enjoy! Genevieve
Amendments
10-5-12: Tons of high quality (& free!) pumpkin printables from 1plus1plus1equals1 and from 2teachingmommies for both math and writing/reading. Honoring the original creators' requests, you have to go directly to the site and then click on the downloads. But TOTALLY worth it!
Amendments
10-5-12: Tons of high quality (& free!) pumpkin printables from 1plus1plus1equals1 and from 2teachingmommies for both math and writing/reading. Honoring the original creators' requests, you have to go directly to the site and then click on the downloads. But TOTALLY worth it!
Reading, Vocabulary, & Literature
- Read a minimum of 20 minutes per day to your child
- Go to your local library and look-up/checkout both fiction and nonfiction books on pumpkins and autumn. Let your child help you select the books. Have her read the pictures or retell the story to you.
- Vocabulary Words: pumpkin, orange, autumn, fall, life cycle, seed, vine, carve, stem, fruit, pulp
- Pumpkin Feels Lonely (video)
- Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on the Gate poem & printable
- The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything Ideas #1
- The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything Ideas #2
- Pumpkin Adjectives
- Recommended Book:
Letters & Writing
- Pumpkins & "P"
- Printable Letter “P” #1 with Pumpkin theme
- Printable Letter “P” #2 with Pumpkin theme
- Printable Letter “P” #3 with Pumpkin theme
- Pumpkin acrostic poem
- “L” is for Leaf
- Create a pumpkin simile
Math
- Pumpkin Math Mat while practicing addiction using dice
- Play Pumpkin Bingo while practicing shape identification
- Pumpkin Glyph
- Pumpkin Seeds Match-Up Game
- Pumpkin Symmetry
- School House Rock Counting by 5's (video)
- Scarecrow Pumpkin Counting by 5's
- Create Estimation Jars using pine cones
- Counting Tree Leaves
Art & Fine Motor
- Fall Magnet Pages
- Cut out play dough with pumpkin cutters
- Autumn Tree
- For bigger kids, try hammering golf tees into pumpkins
- Make a pumpkin out of lunch paper bags
- Marble Painted Pumpkins
Science
- Venn Diagram a Pumpkin & an Apple
- Time Lapse of Pumpkin Vines Growing (video)
- That's How a Pumpkin Grows Song (animated video)
- Share the lifecycle of a pumpkin plant
Music
- Where is Pumpkin (super cute!)
- 10 Little Leaves
- Hojas, Hojas is a spanish song teaching colors
Outings, Sensory, & Large Motor
- Visit a farm and pick out pumpkins!
- Go for a nature walk and take pictures. Make a photo book of your pictures together.
- Cut open and explore the insides of pumpkins
- Rake and jump into leaves
- Collect acorns, pine cones, and leaves often. These are needed for many of our fine motor art activities!
- Fall Sensory Table
Online Educational Fun
