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Remember:
one leaf - two leaves!
What may be
"new words"
are in italic;
many words
can be presented
with drawings.
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Explain
in English what autumn is in an easy
way. In my fifth classes I use to hand out a few
words, which we read together
such as:
"Autumnal Equinox or autumn is commonly known as fall,
named after the falling leaves. The fall season officially begins in the
Northern Hemisphere on September 22nd.
Nights get longer, days get
shorter, temperatures begin to cool and trees begin to change their colour."
We talk about what is changing in the
nature.
Probably the children will first talk about the leaves. You/they can bring
leaves in the classroom and use them to repeat colours, numbers,
sizes.
You can make some crafts with leaves:
Leaf stamping
Leaf rubbings
Leaf people
Pressed leaves
I do not expect the elder kids to read the
following lines on their own, but it may be nice to read these words together:
"Leaves have a very important job, they soak up energy from the sun and
turn it into food for the tree.
During the winter there isn't enough
light
for the leaves to turn into food. Therefore, the leaves of the trees begin
to change from green to various shades of yellow, red and orange. The
leaves then fall from the trees."
The children know that some animals in autumn do
something special: some kind of birds migrate, because the
winter is cold and they won't be able to find food enough.
Some children may remember animals as for example
squirrels,
bears, hedhoges, tortoises, and so on.
Make a poster with the children's drawings and the names of the animals
and what they eat - in English!
Squirrels
gather food such as nuts and
mushrooms during the fall. When they have eaten all they want, they
begin to store the food they find, hiding it in many different places. Squirrels
usually place the food into tree holes or shallow holes in the
ground.
During the fall, bears
begin to prepare their hibernation for the winter. First they eat, and eat, and eat!
Bears need to
gain as much weight as possible, eating nuts, honey,
berries, fish, and
what else they can find.
Brown bears and Grizzly bears are capable of gaining
as much as 40 pounds per week! WOW! Bears will eat day and night, and
rest very little during this time.
They also prepare a den for hibernation, in a hillside, under tree
roots, and so on.
Then they are ready to hibernate. Hibernation allows them to rest
throughout the winter months when food is hard to find.
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