Fall Is Here: Mrs. Hicks: Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Fall Is Here! We Love It!
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Mrs. Hicks 2^nd Grade
Blanchard Elementary
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
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Book: The First Leaf of Autumn by Louise Phillips

We discussed all the changes we see take place in autumn and made a list of those ideas. Then we sorted those ideas by categories and created verses for our class poem. We hope you enjoy our free verse poem:

Changes Seen in Autumn

Leaves fly off the road as you drive.
Leaves change different colors.
Leaves fall off the trees.
Leaves are in piles on the ground.
Leaves are red.
Trees are bare.

Squirrels start hiding acorns.
Squirrels start sleeping.
Scarecrows scare the birds away.
The birds start flying south.

Wind and rain knocks the leaves off.
People are wearing coats.
It turns cold.

People are raking leaves.
People eat pumpkin pie.

It's closer to Halloween.
People dress up for Halloween.
Pumpkins are seen everywhere.

Fall is Here! We Love It!!

We made leaf rubbings using a chart to tell us what colors each leaf would turn in autumn. Here are couple of samples:

We did lots more fun projects that you can see on our web page.
Fall Projects

State objectives:

Writing: Follow a writing process to generate a draft, reread and revise work, edit and proofread for capitalization and ending punctuation, and publish writing.

Reading: Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend nonfiction and use details from text to ask questions to clarify understanding, identify main ideas, and retell sequence of events.

Science: Describe the basic needs of most plants.
Recognize that plants progress through life cycles