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Theme: Autumn

Discover the World: plant life - finding your bearings in time

Awakening to the rhythms of time... the seasons

-> the nature, the state of the sky and the day/night ratio, the men at work, a date (1st day of autumn)

Supports:tales, slides, documentaries, nature outings, fruits and leaves

Activities :

  • Impregnation through storytelling, themed albums

Acquisition of a precise vocabulary (description, actions, colors, etc.)

  • Photos, slides taken in autumn = the real

to relate to what is happening around us (nature changes, we pick up fruit, the leaves fall, it's hunting time...)

  • the calendar 

-> the date

-> the weather

  • In autumn, the days decrease, we see it at the end of the classes

  • Autumn through poetry

  • plastic activities

Organizational chart

Language

  • Autumn, what does it make you think of?

  • Poems (including the apple and the snail)

  • Reading themed images

  • reading of albums (including the piano des  bois - Léo Corbeau and Gaspard Renard in connection with the fable of La Fontaine)

living world

Collection of dead leaves (sorting, comparison)

Specific vocabulary related to leaf and tree

Themes: tree, leaf, forest, woodland animals, mushrooms...

the snail (classroom breeding)

The senses

smell under wood

sound of leaves rustling when walking

touch: rough bark, pungent bug, soft moss

Autumn

Organizational chart

Language

  • Autumn, what does it make you think of?

  • poems to listen to

  • Poetry The apple and the snail

  • From the nursery rhyme... a little man sitting on an apple

  • Reading themed images

  • reading of albums (including the piano des  bois - Léo Corbeau and Gaspard Renard in connection with the fable of La Fontaine)

living world

Collection of dead leaves (sorting, comparison)

Specific vocabulary related to leaf and tree

Themes: tree, leaf, forest, woodland animals, mushrooms...

the snail (classroom breeding)

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The senses

smell under wood

sound of leaves rustling when walking

touch: rough bark, pungent bug, soft moss

view: the colors of autumn, the shapes of the leaves, of the trees

Autumn

Graphics

  • the quills of the hedgehog (small multidirectional lines) to interrupt one's course, to change direction

  • the spiral (the snail)

  • the mushrooms

  • grapes

Space

  • Outing in the forest or in the park

  • Coloring (mastery of gesture in a limited space) - coloring with instructions

  • gluing of stickers (PS) on the points of the mushrooms

plastic arts

  • Sponge footprints (make a background) autumn colors then do dotted lines with cotton swab and black paint around real leaves placed on the background

  • Discover the mixture of yellow and red

  • Painting and photography (see below)

Math

Sorting sheets according to the shape criterion

language workshop

Depending on the question asked, the answers will be different.

Autumn,

what does this make you think of ?

(before oral rectification)

 

 

 

  • “  Summer goes by quickly

     

  • there are lots of leaves

     

  • to me it makes me think that it's almost winter

     

  • there are quills that hurt

     

  • me it makes me think that there are pumpkins

     

  • it reminds me of going to the forest to bring back chestnuts

     

  • we see acorns and squirrels

     

  • sometimes the leaves fall

     

  • the leaves are green and brown

     

  • the leaves are orange, red, yellow

     

  • it reminds me of mushrooms

     

  • grape »

Nature will change

colors, landscapes (orange red brown yellow)

Leaves change color and fall

less heat, less sun, rain?

It's the season for harvesting .............. and hunting

  • autumn fruits (apples, grapes...)

  • mushrooms

Display

colors,

autumn landscapes

the fruits

fall harvest

photos, images brought back from the house

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the tree in

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season referent

  • Why do the leaves change color?

In autumn, the night falls earlier, the leaves receive less light and can no longer produce the chlorophyll which gives them the green color.

(Demonstration of the presence of chlorophyll: rub a piece of tree leaf on white paper or observe the spinach cooking water)

  • Why do leaves fall in autumn?

Due to the lack of light, the tree produces a thin layer of cork at the point of attachment of the leaf, which makes it less solid. With the wind and frosts, the leaves break off and fall.

  • Why do trees lose their leaves?

Tree leaves need a lot of water to live. when they have fallen, the tree can save water and live in slow motion, without drying out, especially when the ground is frozen. Deciduous trees lose their leaves every year.

  • What happens to fallen leaves?

They decompose - potting soil/humus

Oral comprehension questions:

- What gives the green color to the leaves?

-Why can the leaves no longer produce chlorophyll in autumn?

-What happens then?

- What causes leaf drop?

-Why does the tree save water when its leaves have fallen?

What is Autumn?

 

what the children think

 

 

 

 

  • There are leaves that change color.

     

  • The leaves are falling. 

     

  • Leaves fly away. 

     

  • The leaves fall to the ground on their own. 

     

  • When there is a lot of wind, the leaves can fly away. 

     

  • Autumn i is cold, the leaves are falling in the fall. 

     

  • The wind i pushes the leaves. 

     

  • The wind is blowing and the leaves are falling. 

     

  • When it's autumn, it's cold and the leaves tear off. 

     

  • The earth flies away and goes away in the eyes of children. 

     

  • When you can't see the leaves and you walk on them, it goes crrrrrac. 

Poetry

The apple and the snail

                                        Charles VILDRAC

Pedagogical exploitation

There was an apple,
At the top of an apple tree;
A gust of autumn wind
Made her fall on the meadow.
                                 (show the sky then the ground)
Apple, apple, did you hurt yourself?
                                 (shaking hands)
- My chin is marmalade
                                 (finger on chin)
The split nose and the poached eye!
                                 (finger to nose then fist to eye)

Nursery rhyme: A little man sitting on an apple...

A little guy

Sitting on an apple.

The apple tumbles.

The little guy flies away

On the roof of the school.

Preparation sheet

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plastic arts

Painting and photography

The students make a sponge background on the drawing paper.

Material :

  • heavy-duty sponges (with large holes) cut into 6 pieces

  • trays of paint in autumn colors (yellow red orange brown)

  • drawing paper white large format

 

The teacher takes  photos of the children.

In the courtyard, a bench is placed in front of a shrub. Two children sit under a transparent umbrella and look at each other​.

The photos are printed in black and white on the school photocopier.

Decorative graphics

 

Material :

  • wide tip markers

  • leaf silhouette

inside the silhouette, outline the leaf, changing color with each outline.

An outing in the forest

At least twice in the school year (in autumn and at the end of spring) to collect as much information as possible

Link to the project

wild fruits

Fall outing:

  • Discovery tour/treasure hunt. This is the first session on the subject. -> children pick up anything and everything.

Back in class, you have to sort it out.

  • What did we find? sorting - classification

flowers, poppy, chestnut, walnut, dandelion, maple, roudoudou...

  • What is a fruit?

What do all these things have in common? -> they all have seeds​

to prove it, we will plant (to help with germination, put them in the cold (fridge) before planting)

A fruit is something that contains one or more seeds

  • Are they dangerous? literature search

  • How is a fruit formed?

Transformation of a flower into a fruit. In the spring, observation of the evolution of the cherry tree.

  • What is the role of wild fruits?

They are used for the dissemination of the species (transport by animals)​

  • What do we eat in...?

the carrot -> root​

the bean -> fruit or seed

onion/endive -> bud

rhubarb -> petiole (part of the stem)

fruits sauvages
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