Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Reading
Winter Books
Geography/Social
Studies
Locations (Where
Snow Days
Temperature
Snowflakes
Winter Poems
Winter Activities
Holidays
does it snow)
Historical event
(effect of snow)
Celebrations:
Fall Books
Life Cycles
Leaves
Pumpkins
Orchards
Holidays
Fall Activities
Scarecrows
Winter
Poems
Stories
Spelling/ Vocab
&
Fall Objects
Winter Objects
English
Fall
Figurative Language
Synonyms
Discuss:Similarities &
differences, what was
learned, collaborative
conversation
Different Cultures
Fall around the word
Writing
Speech
Science
Perks:
Nature Walks
Movies
Snacks
Sledding
Pumpkin Patch
Math
Symmetry
(snowflakes)
Estimation: How
many cotton balls
fill up the
snowman
Measurement:
Apple Pie
Graphing: Leaf
color
Sorting: Leaves,
acorns, sticks
Music/Art/PE in the Fall
Nature Walks
Making gingerbread
men/houses, halloween
masks, scarecrows
Teaching Pitch (Fall
lesson plan)
Fits national reading standards by linking images to the text to provide picture clues and introducing
age-appropriate vocabulary.
- Top reading specialists have leveled this text as appropriate for emergent readers.
- The repetitive language, structure, and rhyming patterns help children decipher words.
- Word lists at the back of each book help build reading vocabularies.
Grades K-4 National Social Studies Standards
- People, Places, and Environments: III
- Examine the interaction between humans and their physical environment
- Individual Development and Identity: IV
- Describe personal connections to place, especially immediate surroundings
- Identify and describe ways family, groups, and community influence the individual's daily life and
personal choices
Title: In November
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator: Jill Kastner
ISBN: 0152063420
Description: This book is a soft quiet book that
talks about the month of November. The cold
weather that is soon to come, pushing away all of
the warm weather, plants, and some animals.
.
Title: Mouses First Halloween
Author: Lauren Thompson
Illustrator: Buket Erdogan
ISBN: 0689831765
Description: This book is about mouses first
Halloween he finds out that first impressions can
be misleading and nothing is really that scary. This
book takes you through the different aspects of fall.
Title: Scarecrow
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator:
ISBN: 015201084X
Description: This book is about the life of a
scarecrow. He can see everything and everyone
can see him. He sees each season changing and
the crops growing.