Fall Fun With Patterns and Color Words

  This week has been a full Fall theme with books, patterns, and color words.  I'm so proud of my kids ( almost everyone can now read the color words) !!  It's so exciting.  We read some great fall and color word books this week: Apple Harvest Countdown, Seasons, When Autumn Comes, Warthog Colors, and White Rabbit's Color Book.   We have also been wearing out Dr. Jean's Color Word Song and Jack Hartman's Season Song.  I did find a new site (Have fun Teaching) and my kids really loved the season song off of that site..thanks Ms. Julie for the tip!!!  They also have letter songs and lots of other great stuff..it does sound a bit disco sometimes but my kids just love music in general!!
     I was really hoping to upload some free stuff for you guys but once again Google Docs has defeated me!!!  Between school and my own little monkeys...I just can't find the time to master it!!  If anyone wants to give me a free lesson...I'd love one!! LOL!!  Maybe on fall break I'll get it figured out!!  Onto great pics from this week:)

Making our leaf patterns.  After gluing the students labeled them ABAB!!!

 Another project we did this week was finger painting!!!  I traced each student's hand and arm (up to their elbow) and they colored it brown for the tree.  Then they finger painted the leaves with red, orange, and yellow. Such fun.  We also did leaf rubbings..but I forgot to take pics!!

Hard at work!!

 Finished projects!!

 We wrote our color words this week.  Then each student could read the sentence. They were so proud!! Each reads.. "I see a ________ leaf ( they colored the pic of the leaf the same as the color word).

Our Harvest of Good Work!!

 Our Rainbow Hair for Color Words!!  They learned the poem.  Circled the color words in the poem and then on their page wrote four color words and decorated the boy/girl with the correct color hair!!