Less than $5 1st Grade Autumn Activities (by date, oldest first)

Students will count and graph the number of apple seeds they found in their apples. Excellent for early elementary and special education classrooms. Black and white graphics help you save on ink. Easy, fun, and interactive math lesson. Lesson plan ties in Special Education Extended Standards. This would be fun for Johnny Appleseed Day!

Students will color leaves red and yellow, glue them to their tree trunks, and construct a single digit math problem using the visuals!

These fall activities will get your class in the seasonal spirit! Apples, pumpkins, and leaves team up to help your students practice skills such as counting, single digit addition, graphing, and even sequencing events. From no-prep to low-prep, these ELA and math activities are the perfect addition to your classroom.

We hope you enjoy our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt. Get outside and connect with nature! Download our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt now!

Ask the children to use this worksheet to to record what they SEE, HEAR, SMELL and FEEL as they walk outside on a nice Autumn day.

Recommended sequence

1. Review the 5 senses.

2. Take a moment to tune in, breathe, and just be.

3. Give instructions for how to quietly be in the outside world, using keen observation and a relaxed mind to fill in this chart.

4. Give plenty of time for students to draw or write their findings.

5. Come together as a group and find out what people observed and any impact it had on them.

Tips for your mindfulness nature walk

1. Walk at a natural, slow pace. Take your time to take in the beauty of nature around you. Look around you. Notice the trees around you. Are they starting to change colors? Are they losing their leaves?
2. Take in deep breaths through your nose. Shift your awareness to your smell. What do you smell? Does it smell earthy? Do you smell the leaves around you?
3. Listen. What do you hear? Are there animals bustling around? Do you hear the leaves crunching underneath your feet?
4. Pick up a few leaves. How do they feel? Are they starting to decompose? Are they crunchy? What color are they?
5. Shift your attention back to walking. Feel the physical sensation of walking. One foot up, one foot down. Notice your feet touching the ground. How do you feel?
6. At the end of your walk, pause and take a moment. Stand still and take in a deep breath. Take a look around and notice your feelings.

Autumn themed Color by CVC Word puzzles covering short a, e, i, o, and u word families. Each color by word puzzle features 4 CVC words for a vowel family in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total. I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

Words Included:

Short a - can, jam, pad, nap

Short e - web, leg, jet, gem

Short i - dip, rip, pig, wig

Short o - sob, cog, pot, top

Short u - sun, bug, sun, cup

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Also available:

Winter Color by CVC Word

Spring Color by CVC Word

Summer Color by CVC Word

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CVC Blending Cards - 85 Words with and without pictures

CVC Word Family Rearrange Puzzles -

85 Words

St. Patrick's Day Color by CVC Word

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Why not try before you buy? Check out this free preview of the Fall Morning Work for Kindergarten and 1st Grade unit. The full unit is a set of fall themed morning work that's full of fun and quick activities! With count and match, ten frames, number bonds, mazes, connect the dots, rhyming words, word sorting, and labeling, there's plenty of variety. As a homeschooling mom, these are perfect for those days when I need just a few extra minutes between breakfast and the school day to make a cup of coffee and gather my thoughts without the kids losing focus! This pack is geared towards kinder and 1st graders and has many different skill levels throughout. To adapt the typical morning work for homeschoolers, I've added Saturday and Sunday to the days of the week and removed the usual date section since many homeschoolers don't work every day in a month. No wasted paper! Included *in FULL version*: [this preview includes 3 pages] -18 full color pages with day of the week, weather, and season, plus additional activity/activities -5 full color pages with two half-page activities on each for a total of 10 activities -Black and white versions of all full color pages for easier printing *Total of 28 activities included* ***************************************************************************** Looking for other morning work packs? Fall Morning Work for Preschool Fall Morning Work for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Fall Activities for Older Kids Winter Morning Work for Preschool Winter Morning Work for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Winter Activities for Older Kids Spring Activities for Older Kids ***************************************************************************** Before you go... Follow me to be the first to know about discounts, sales, and new products! Get credit to use on your next purchase • Leave feedback for any purchases you've made and TeachShare will give you a credit toward your next purchase! Plus, feedback helps me make better products tailored to what my customers are looking for. *****************************************************************************

Apple Orchard Color by CVC Word puzzles covering short a, e, i, o, and u word families. Each color by word puzzle features 4 to 6 CVC words for a vowel family in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total. These fun apple orchard themed puzzles include an apple, an apple pie, an apple cider donut, a basket of apples, and apple cider.

I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set for each puzzle. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

Words Included:

Short a - cap, pad, tag, fan

Short e - leg, pen, web, vet

Short i - dip, bib, sit, lid

Short o - jog, cob, box, hop, rod

Short u - sun, bun, hut, sub, tub, pup

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*all of my CVC activities use the same words and images for cohesive learning*

CVC Blending Cards - 85 Words with and without pictures

CVC Word Family Rearrange Puzzles -

85 Words

Seasons Color by CVC Word Bundle

CVC Word Memory Game

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This set of fall themed morning work is full of fun and quick activities! With count and match, ten frames, number bonds, mazes, connect the dots, rhyming words, word sorting, and labeling, there's plenty of variety. Can be used as morning work, for early finishers, or as fun activities to get your students excited for fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving!

As a homeschooling mom, these are perfect for those days when I need just a few extra minutes between breakfast and the school day to make a cup of coffee and gather my thoughts without the kids losing focus! To adapt the typical morning work for homeschoolers, I've added Saturday and Sunday to the days of the week and removed the usual date section since many homeschoolers don't work every day in a month. No wasted paper!

This pack is geared towards kinder and 1st graders and has many different skill levels throughout. Morning work units are also available for PreK and Middle/High Schoolers here.

Included:

• 18 full color pages with day of the week, weather, and season, plus additional activity/activities
• 5 full color pages with two half-page activities on each for a total of 10 activities
• Black and white versions of all full color pages for easier printing

*Total of 28 activities included*

✱ Why not try before you buy? You can download a free sample of this unit here. ✱

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Looking for more fall fun?

Halloween Color by CVC Word

Label the Parts: Autumn

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Unit: PreK & K

Roll & Cover: Fall, Halloween & Thanksgiving

Fall Leaves Sorting Mats

October Weekly Vocabulary Curriculum

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Learn to label the parts of a pumpkin, apple, turkey, trick-or-treat scene, Thanksgiving dinner, and more! These no-prep, label the picture printables are great for practicing scissor skills or handwriting in labeling centers, writing centers, to complement science, social studies, or holiday units or for ESL students.

Each fall-themed printable comes in two versions for differentiated learning: one version is a cut and paste, the other is a fill-in-the-blank version with a word bank for more advanced students. Cut and paste versions work well for preschool and kindergartners working on scissor skills, while the word bank version gives older kinders, first and second graders practice at writing and identifying the parts of the life cycles. Printables come in both full color and black and white. Use the black and white version to add a coloring component to the lesson!

Labeling Activities Included:

Inside of Apple

Pumpkin

Inside of Pumpkin

Bat

Trick-or-Treaters

Turkey

Cornucopia

Thanksgiving Dinner

What You Get:

-Cut and Paste version of each labeling activity in both color and black and white

-Word Bank version of each labeling activity in both color and black and white

-Answer Key for each labeling activity

*Total of 40 pages including answer keys*

**This is the first in a series of Label the Parts sets**

Label the Parts - Autumn (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Winter (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Spring (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Summer (including holidays)

Label the Parts - Insects, Bugs & Spiders

Label the Parts - Animals

Label the Parts - Objects

Label the Parts - Life Cycles

All Label the Parts sets are included in the Label the Parts Bundle. The bundle is available for 20% off the list price of the units sold separately.

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Colorful Owls - Trace, Color & Build

Colorful Pumpkins - Trace, Color & Build

Colorful Fish - Trace, Color & Build

Dinosaur Math Puzzles - Numbers, Words, Tallies & more

What Belongs? Cut, Sort, Paste Activities

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Three adaptive books with a Thanksgiving theme! Read to your students with these interactive books about the Thanksgiving Day Parade, yummy Thanksgiving food & things we can be thankful for. These books require some prep work; however, once made, you can use them year after year!  

Book 1: Thanksgiving Day Parade

Students will listen to a short story about parade. The book has colorful pictures (but easy on that printer!) showing students what they can expect to see. They will see a big city, news reporters, big balloons, floats, bands & end the parade with you know who...Santa!

Book 2: Yummy Food

This story uses a repetitive text ("I like") and identifies the food. Traditional Thanksgiving foods are included: pumpkin pie, stuffing, apple pie, turkey, cranberry jelly, mashed potatoes, & dinner rolls

Book 3: I am Thankful

A variety of activities are represented in this book. What might you be thankful for? Pets, teachers, family, favorite foods, games, homes and birthdays.

Do you love adaptive books & want a lot of options for your students? Then, check out my growing bundle: Growing Bundle! Adaptive / Interactive Books for Special Education.

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Looking for a simple and fun way to get your learners excited about reading? These Fall Bookmarks are an easy, inexpensive, and a great way to excite your students about reading! Grab these printable fall bookmark templates and you're sure to have a simple way to keep your learners excited about reading all throughout the fall season! These Color Your Own Fall Bookmarks are a great way to allow students to express their creativity by coloring their very own bookmarks.

⭐ Save $$$ and grab these bookmarks as part of the Seasonal Bookmarks Bundle.

They’re perfect for holidays, or for the days right after a long break because they’re a great way to calm your students down and let them demonstrate their creative side.

You can use these as student gifts or prizes.

What is in this Fall Bookmarks printable?

The bookmarks come in 3 different versions.

• Black and White: Allow students to use their own coloring skills to create their own vision!

• Partial Black and White: Allow students to color some of the bookmark but doesn’t become too time consuming.

• Full Color: Have vibrant bookmarks ready to go for students to use in their fresh books!

For more craftivity resources check out the links below:

• Dinosaur Bookmarks
• Summer Bookmarks
• Spring Bookmarks
• Transportation 3D Crafts
• Farm Animals 3D Craft Activity

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Looking for a simple and fun way to get your learners excited about reading? These Winter Bookmarks are an easy, inexpensive, and a great way to excite your students about reading! Grab these printable winter bookmark templates and you're sure to have a simple way to keep your learners excited about reading all throughout the winter season! These Color Your Own Winter Bookmarks are a great way to allow students to express their creativity by coloring their very own bookmarks.

⭐ Save $$$ and grab these bookmarks as part of the Seasonal Bookmarks Bundle.

They’re perfect for holidays, or for the days right after a long break because they’re a great way to calm your students down and let them demonstrate their creative side.

You can use these as student gifts or prizes.

What is in this Winter Bookmarks printable?

The bookmarks come in 3 different versions.

• Black and White: Allow students to use their own coloring skills to create their own vision!

• Partial Black and White: Allow students to color some of the bookmark but doesn’t become too time consuming.

• Full Color: Have vibrant bookmarks ready to go for students to use in their fresh books!

For more craftivity resources check out the links below:

• Dinosaur Bookmarks
• Summer Bookmarks
• Spring Bookmarks
• Fall Bookmarks
• Transportation 3D Crafts
• Farm Animals 3D Craft Activity

This resource is licensed for personal classroom or home use only. Any commercial use is not permitted.

Have a Question?

Email me at hello@thechattykinder.com

How many seeds are inside my pumpkin? This pumpkin seed math activity contains 2 mat formats that are ideal for counting the seeds in a small pumpkin. One mat formats has circles for students to place their seeds in and the other format has lines where students will place ten seeds. Both sets of mats can accommodate up to 1000 seeds.

These mats are designed to help reinforce learning with place value and skip counting by 10s and 100s. Have students make predictions about how may seeds are in their pumpkin and use the mats to test their hypothesis.

Mats Included:

• Mats with guiding circles up to 1000
• Mats without circles up to 1000

The mats with circles guides students to easily place 10 seeds in each section. Students can easily count the number of seeds by placing one seed inside each circle. They will then skip count by 10 to see how many seeds are on their mat.

These mats make a great addition to a pumpkin investigation activity. Students can make an hypothesis about the number of seeds in their pumpkin, guess the number of seeds from seeing the seeds being removed from the pumpkin, then they can use the mats to count the actual number of seeds.

When Can I Use These Mats?

• Pumpkin Investigation Activity
• Math Center
• Small Group Counting Activity
• Whole Group Counting Activity

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Allysa P. says, "This was very helpful as we counted the seeds in our class pumpkin! It helped keep my kiddos on track and organized in their counting. Thank you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Kristy K. says, "I loved that these worksheets go so high. I thought I would only need to 100 but our pumpkin ended up with 367 seeds. I laminated the sheets and then had the students lay the seeds on the circles. After they were done I just washed the boards off and stored them for next year. Thank you."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Samantha L. says, "This made counting our pumpkin seeds SO much easier. The visual was great to help us count by 10s."

Related Activities:

• Pumpkin Counting Mats 1-20
• Pumpkin Mystery Picture

This is a cute craft to go along with any Thanksgiving or Harvest Theme! Step by step instructions are included with pictures so the directions are easy to follow. There are two variations for this craft, depending on the time you have to complete this craft and the fine motor skills of the students in your class. This craft would make a great display to decorate your classroom, door or hallway. ****************UPDATED 11/6/17**************** This update was to include a second craft idea to use with the corn template. There are now two sets of instruction pages for two different corn crafts.

Where is the black cat? This pumpkin themed sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the 10 sight words listed.
• black cat cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts. (6 to a page coming soon)

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Black Cat is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a cat is hidden behind a pumpkin. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the cat is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the cat is behind the pumpkin, then the cat must be hidden again to play further. If the cat is not behind the pumpkin, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains 10 Sight Words:

a, and, I, is, me, my, of, the, to, you

Students will have fun writing about pumpkins with these easy to follow writing prompts, thinking maps, and guidance to help them learn how to form simple sentences to write a non-fiction story.

What is Included:

• 4 writing prompt pages for easy differentiation
• Have/are chart and cards for students and for the pocket chart
• 2 thinking maps

This resource is differentiated to help students on various levels be successful in writing a non-fiction passage. The chart or thinking map used will depend on the level of the students in the class.

How to Use:

The have/are chart is a great way to get students started on thinking about different characteristics of pumpkins. The accompanying pocket chart cards can be used to show students how to complete their own mats or can be used as a whole group instructional tool.

The thinking maps can be used with students who need less guidance and can think of, write, or draw their own descriptors for the pumpkin. Students will write adjectives or draw pictures to fill in these thinking maps.

The writing pages are differentiated for students who need no help with starting sentences and for students who need the writing prompt to being their sentences.

When to Use:

• Writing Center
• Whole Group Writing Activity
• Small Group Writing Activity

This guided writing activity is a low prep activity for teachers to prepare for students. It is also helpful to have a pumpkin available for students to look at, touch, and explore as they fill in their thinking maps.

To see a free sample, please check out the following link:

Guided Writing with Acorns

Other Guided Writing Activities

Guided Writing with Apples

Guided Writing with Bears

Guided Writing with Flowers

Practice identifying 2D shapes with these apple themed shape centers and worksheets. Students will identify shapes with hands on activities, worksheets, seek and find shapes, identify shapes with clip cards, match shapes and more with these centers.

What is included:

• Shape Cards for Posters or Wall Display
• Shapes Clip Cards
• 3 Shape Sorts
• Shape Matching Cards
• Shape Matching Mats
• Playdough Mats
• Seek and Find Mats and Cards
• 6 Shape Sorting Worksheets

Shapes Included

• Arrow*
• Circle
• Crescent
• Crest*
• Decagon*
• Diamond
• Heart
• Heptagon*
• Hexagon
• Parallelogram
• Pentagon
• Nonagon*
• Octagon
• Oval
• Rectangle
• Rhombus
• Semicircle
• Square
• Star
• Trapezoid
• Triangle

*These shapes are only included on the seek and find mat.

Other Shape Sorting Activities Include:

Shape Sorting with Spiders

Use real acorns in this nonstandard weights and measurements task card activity set. This Kindergarten measurement center allows students to compare weight and measure lengths and heights by using nonstandard units.

Task Cards Included

• Which one weighs less? (12 cards)
• Which one weighs more? (12 cards)
• How many acorns equals the objects? (12 cards)
• How many acorns tall is the object? (6 cards)
• How many acorns long is the object? (6 cards)

These task cards use a variety of easy to find materials to compare the weights of acorns with common classroom supplies. The same materials are also used in the measuring length.

Here is the list of materials needed to do all of the task cards.

The following materials are needed to complete these task cards: acorns, balance scale, base ten blocks (or small wooden blocks), bottle of glue, building bricks, crayon, coins, counting cubes, dice, dominos, dot markers, erasers, glue stick, marbles, marker, paint brush, paper clips, pencil, and a toy car.

When to Use

• Task Box Activity
• Small Group Activity
• Math Centers

Skills Assessed

• Comparing Weights of two sets of objects
• Using nonstandard measurements to measure length
• Using nonstandard measurements to measure height
• Using nonstandard measurements to weigh objects.

The task cards, by themselves, are low prep and just need to be printed and cut apart. They can be laminated for durability if desired. By storing the cards and acorns in task boxes, teachers will have an easy to set up and clean up activity. Gathering the necessary materials may take some time, but once gathered, this becomes a fun, hands on math center to practice nonstandard measurements.

This cute turkey craft is perfect for a Thanksgiving themed craft! It would make the perfect center piece or decoration for a table! No two turkeys will be alike as students work alone or in groups to create a unique turkey! There are two versions of this craft included, one black and white for students to color and decorate on their own and one fully colored version for students to add finishing touches to!

Using hundreds charts is a great way for students to learn about numbers. This packet contains a single hundred's chart mystery picture of a pumpkin. Students have several ways to solve this mystery picture: 1. You can use page 3 only and have the students simply color the mystery picture. 2. You can use page 4 and pages 6-10 and have students draw the cards and then fill in the right color. 3. You can use pages 6-10 and have students put the picture together like a puzzle. 4. You can use the answer key and cut it apart to make small puzzles. This product is also available in the following bundles: Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture and Puzzle Bundle Pumpkins Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture and Puzzle Fall Themed Bundle Like this Fall Themed Product? Check out some others that may interest you! Fall Counting Mats Fall Themed Clip Cards 1-20 Halloween Themed Activities