Teachable moments are always welcomed in my classroom. This student took a road trip to New Hampshire and brought back apples and fall leaves to share with the class. She took our class mascot Twinkles the Owl with her too. She recorded the adventures of her trip in Twinkle's journal. As a class we looked New Hampshire up on the United States map. Then I read a story called, "Red Leaf Yellow Leaf.
I just happened to have fall leaf and tree die cut-outs on hand. I used my morning planning period to make this math worksheet to recap all the math strategies we have been practicing up to this point. We have math in the afternoon, so it worked out perfect. It made a great hands-on math lesson.
Later in science, I read a book about why leaves change color. I pulled out some leaf cut-outs I bought on sale at Michaels a couple years ago. We colored the leaves with watercolor markers. Then we went outside and sprayed the leaves with water. The students watched in amazement as the colors ran and blended with each other creating beautiful fall leaves. We learned about writing poems in writing this week, so writing fall leaf poems will be on the agenda in the next couple of days.
The leaves turned out spectacular and each was unique, true to nature.
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