2nd Grade Autumn Activities (by date, oldest first)

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.

For many, the passage into Autumn means a shift from Summer to the academic year. That passage is marked by changes of season. Long days and short nights turn to shorter days and longer nights. Summer days may have been filled with recreation, camp, family, and travel. Now schools days are filled with academics, homework, extracurricular activities, and busy schedules.

With all the changes, some students and families experience anxiety, stress, and difficulty balancing all they need to do. 

Our Autumn Yoga Sequence can help yoga practitioners of all ages to feel a deeper sense of balance within. 

With yoga and mindfulness, kids can become more calm, focused in school, and empowered to start every day with confidence and compassion.

Explore the benefits of Yoga and Mindfulness

• More self-awareness
• Improved focus
• Attunement to nature
• Experience in mindfulness with real-world context 
• Fun
• Promotes physical and mental wellbeing
• Improved balance 

Lesson Plans for Teachers and Parents

In our Educator’s edition, we provide 3 easy-to-follow curriculums for teachers, parents, and anyone else that works with children (split by age: young kids, kids, and tweens). 

Each lesson plan is formatted to teach an entire class and includes:

• Facilitated discussion prompts
• Group activities
• Yoga movement 
• Guided relaxations
• Crafts

Also included are:

• Printable yoga deck to learn five (5) yoga poses
• Tips for yoga and yoga card games
• Four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities
• Five (5) coloring pages 
• An Autumn story to integrate the yoga poses for literacy integration
• Journaling pages to reflect on your practice

Learn and Move with our Yoga Cards

Learn five (5) yoga poses. Written for kids, each card comes with easy-to-follow illustrations and step-by-step instructions.  In this resource, the yoga cards come in two variations: one with instructions and another version without text, which is perfect for new readers and people that may have special needs.

This Autumn yoga deck is the perfect way to de-stress and share yoga and mindfulness with children!

Practice anywhere! Use this deck at home, school, park, or when traveling! Add to your peace corner, play yoga games, practice individual poses or as a full sequence. 

Add Mindfulness to your Routine

Research shows that mindfulness can improve executive functions in their brain like cognitive control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and better grades.

We’ve added four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities to teach your children how to manage their emotions and be present. These Fall-themed activities will get your kids excited about the changing seasons while developing their own mindfulness practice.

Also included are five (5) coloring pages of the poses so kids can mindfully color while learning the poses and a journal so they can reflect on their practice.

The Autumn Sequence is a 44-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card. 

Made for educators, yoga teachers, and people leading children's yoga in any setting

Includes three (3) specially designed yoga lesson plans that can be taught to kids ages 2-7, 7-11 and 11-14.

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.

Included in this bundle:
- Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Autumn Sequence Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Sun Salutation Yoga Cards
- Yamas & Niyamas: Successful Relationships with Self & Others

Enjoy!

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 Fish - Trace, Color & Build

Dinosaur Math Puzzles - Numbers, Words, Tallies & more

What Belongs? Cut, Sort, Paste Activities

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68 different labeling activities, covering autumn, winter, spring, summer, animals, insects/bugs/spiders, objects, and life cycles. This bundle gives you enough labeling activities to fill a writing center for a year and then some! These labeling printables can also be used to supplement holiday, seasonal, science or social studies units as well as homeschooling nature studies, field trips, and holiday studies. Each labeling activity comes in two versions for differentiated learning: one version is a cut and paste activity and the other is a fill-in-the-blank with a word bank for more advanced students. Both a full color and a black and white version of each are included so that you can add a coloring component to the activity with the black and white version. Some themes included are apple, inside of a pumpkin, Thanksgiving, Halloween, snowman, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, butterfly, cherry blossom branch, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, campsite, symbols of summer, Ramadan, grasshopper, dragonfly, praying mantis, cow, dog, polar bear, life cycle of an apple, life cycle of a bald eagle, life cycle of a turkey, and more. Newly added: Life Cycles 2 Mini Set that is exclusive to this bundle. The mini set includes the life cycle of a frog, a horse, a dragonfly, and a snake. The mini set is included in the bundle for free. With this bundle you save 20% off of list price if purchased individually. 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 68 activities and 340 pages including answer keys* ***************************************************************************** Looking for other fun activities? 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 ***************************************************************************** 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. *****************************************************************************

Have fun counting with Fall Adapted Books. Work with your students on on counting #1-10, 1-1 correspondence, and number identification with this set of four books. These interactive books provide opportunities for students to identify and utilize numbers on each page. These books require some prep work; however, once made, you can use them year after year! They utilize limited color ink for easy printing.

Book 1: Counting chipmunks: Students will count to 10 with some adorable chipmunks. They are all in festive fall clothing, or holding fall items.

Book 2: Counting fall leaves: Count the colorful fall leaves in this adapted book!

Book 3: Counting spiders - Spiders are hanging everywhere! Count them and find the corresponding numbers.

Book 4: School Monsters - Count the monsters on each page. How many do you see?

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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.

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Fall adapted books covering a pumpkin mini unit, counting #1-10, Fall, & Thanksgiving. This bundle includes 13 adapted books & extension activities (*extension activities only in the mini unit). A bit of prep is required, however they can be used year after year. I have always found adapted books with interactive pieces something that all my kiddos enjoy.

What is included:

Pumpkin Mini Unit

Book 1: Visiting a Pumpkin patch

Introduce vocabulary related to a pumpkin patch then read a story. The story needs some prep work prior, but can be used again and again & is adapted to support student learning.Students will read a story about visiting a pumpkin patch. Followup with a story map, ordering by size, sorting by size & clip cards

Book 2: How to carve a jack-o-lantern

Introduce vocabulary related to carving a jack-o-lantern then read the story. The story needs some prep work prior, but can be used again and again & is adapted to support student learning. Follow up by completing steps to carve a pumpkin, designing a pumpkin art & writing prompts.

Fall Counting #1-10

Book 1: Counting chipmunks: Students will count to 10 with some adorable chipmunks. They are all in festive fall clothing, or holding fall items.

Book 2: Counting fall leaves: Count the colorful fall leaves in this adapted book!

Book 3: Counting spiders - Spiders are hanging everywhere! Count them and find the corresponding numbers.

Book 4: School Monsters - Count the monsters on each page. How many do you see?

Fall Adapted Books

Book 1: Leaves are Falling

Students will listen to a short story about fall days & what we can expect during this season. An adorable bear ends our short story raking and playing in the colorful fall leaves. This story is colorful.  

Book 2: Colorful Fall

Students will listen to a story with repetitive text ("I see a") and identify the item. The items are focused on fall & 8 different colors. An excellent book for practicing color recognition. 

Book 3: Fun in the Fall

A variety of activities are represented in this book. Students will continue developing high-frequency words with the repetitive text "In the fall, I like to." Activities include hiking, school, bake sale, football, picking apples, picking pumpkins, carving pumpkins & a bond fire with smores. 

Book 4: Fall Clothing

This book has students selecting the correct items of clothing. This book is Each page has "I want to," followed by "so I need." For example, students will select sunny days, swimming, and gardening items.

Thanksgiving

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.

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THIS IS A HUGE BUNDLE of Adaptive Books! This huge bundle includes adapted books for all holidays, counting, colors and much more!

Right now there are 40 sets of adapted books included in this set worth $208.00! Each set includes multiple books giving you approximately 106 books to use with your students! PLUS, as I make additional books I just throw them into this set! These books will provide additional support and resources to your classroom all school year!

What is included?

This set includes a plethora of resources and it will keep you busy throughout the school year! I have included animals, holidays, counting, shapes, colors and more.

While many sets are made with the early literacy / early math skills in mind there are also books that can be used as your students grow their skills. I have even my biggest sellers are included in this massive bundle of 40 products!

Why Adapted books?

I personally love using adapted books. I have found them to be motivating to even my most reluctant learners. They are a great resource for such a wide range of learners as well as I can easily modify my instruction for the needs of each student.

I have used them with students who are just learning to sit in their seats and follow directions. Adapted books can easily be modified for students by providing less visual options.

I have also used them with student who are reluctant learners. They may already be confident in the skills presented in the books, however benefit from a learning activity they know they will do succeed with. It is a great starting activity!

Do you have a student who is working on identifying "wh" questions? Place a post it note over picture on each page. Read, ask the "wh" question, and your student can check their answer by checking under the post it note.

Once I have my books prepared they are sturdy, easily cleaned & stored. I store mine in a crate that supports hanging folders. They are sorted by topic and easy to grab and go. We use them in stations, with substitutes, my classroom aides, and when student want to read with peers. They are often requested as well!

How are they prepared?

These books do require some prior prep work. Once they have been created however they are able to be used year after year with a variety of students. I generally print, laminate, bind and velcro them so they can be reused. The adaptive books are designed with students ability to interact with learning material. Each book has interactive icons. Students will have options of 8-10 choices for each story.

So, why wait?

40 Adaptive Book Sets included in this bundle :

Back to school - 3 books

Baseball - 4 books

Basic colors - 4 books

Christmas Shapes - 5 books

Christmas Simple Shapes - 9 books (9 shapes)

Chores

Colorful Christmas - 4 books

Counting Colors #1-10 (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple) - 28 books

Counting Rainbow #1-10

Counting Rainbow #11-20

Descriptions - 3 books

Desert animals - 4 books

Dinosaurs - 5 books & extension activities

Fall - 4 books

Fall Counting 1-10: 4 books

Fall Shapes - 4 books

Farm - 4 books

Halloween Shapes

ocean animals - 4 books

Polar animals - 4 books

rainforest animals - 4 books

Social Skills following directions - 2 books & activities

Springtime - 4 books

Spring - Plant a Garden

Spring Counting #1-10 - 12 books

Summer - 4 books

Thanksgiving - 3 books

Valentine Books - 2 books

Wetland animals - 4 books

Who/What questions - 4 books

When - 5 books

Winter - 4 books

Winter Counting - 4 books

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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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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️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.

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 an acorn. 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 bundle: Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture and Puzzle Fall Themed Bundle

These pumpkin sight word cards make a fun Halloween literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Zeno sight word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own pumpkin card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains 107 Zeno Sight Words

These pumpkin sight word cards make a fun Halloween literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry 201-300 sight word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own pumpkin card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all Fry sight words 201-300:

Where is the worm? This apple 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 Fry 101-200 sight word list.
• Worm 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.

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

These pumpkin sight word cards make a fun Halloween literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry 101-200 sight word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own pumpkin card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all Fry sight words 101-200:

Where is the worm? This apple 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 level 2 trick word list.
• Worm 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.

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

This product contains 84 Level 2 trick words:

again, against, always, America, animal, answer, August, away, beautiful, both, bought, breakfast, brother, carry, change, city, country, couple, cousin, daughter, December, different, done, early, earth, eight, enough, every, family, father, favorite, February, full, goes, great, head, house, January, July, knew, know, large, laugh, learn, lose, Monday, mother, move, night, ocean, often, once, only, picture, piece, place, please, pretty, pull, ready, right, Saturday, school, shall, something, son, special, sure, talk, thought, Thursday, together, tomorrow, trouble, Tuesday, use, used, walk, Wednesday, whose, won, world, young