Less than $5 3rd Grade Autumn Activities (by date, oldest first)

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.

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.

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!

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:

These turkey sight word cards make a fun Thanksgiving literacy center or Thanksgiving sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this third grade 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

Each word is printed on its own turkey 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 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

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 this third grade 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 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

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 third grade 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.

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

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 third grade sight word list.
• 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.

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 all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

These fall sight word cards make a fun autumn literacy center or fall sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the third grade 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 leaf 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 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

This product is included in the following bundle:

Third Grade Seasonal Sight Word Cards Bundle

All 220 Sight Word Cards for Autumn

All 220 Seasonal Sight Word Cards Mega Bundle

Where is the acorn? This fall 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 third grade sight word list.
• Acorn 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 Acorn is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an acorn is hidden behind a leaf. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the acorn is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the acorn is behind the leaf, then the acorn must be hidden again to play further. If the acorn is not behind the leaf, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

Let students have fun skip counting with these acorn themed skip counting worksheets.

What is Included

This resource contains 2 skip counting worksheets for skip counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. There are two levels of difficulty for these worksheets.

How to Use

Each number has an easy worksheet where students must fill in every other number. Each number also has a harder worksheet where random numbers are missing and students must fill in the missing numbers by skip counting by the indicated number. Since the worksheets are differentiated so students at different levels can be successful.

When to Use:

• Independent Practice
• Math Centers
• Review Skip Counting
• Homework
• Emergency Sub Plans
• Small Group Activities

Skip counting is an important skill for second and third graders to master. By knowing how to skip count by various numbers, students are able to more quickly grasp and solve multiplication problems in future lessons.

Skills Assessed:

• Skip Counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
• Number Formation

These skip counting worksheets are a no prep option for teachers to give to students to practice this important skill. Teachers can make this activity more fun and engaging by allowing students to use different kinds of writing utensils to complete the pages.

Thanksgiving is here! Students will find and circle Thanksgiving vocabulary with this holiday-themed crossword puzzle.

Check out our full Thanksgiving set !

Concepts Explored: Thanksgiving | Happy Thanksgiving | traditions | holiday | November | fall | autumn | turkey | feast | pilgrims | Wampanoag | Native American | Mayflower | Plymouth

Thanksgiving time is a fun family time. Print out and enjoy this Thanksgiving and pumpkin-themed maze! A bit of seasonal fun that kids will love.

Thanksgiving is a time for family, feasts and fun. It's the perfect time to learn about the Pilgrims coming to America and the Native Americans already living here. This educational set includes facts about the history and holiday of Thanksgiving "Then and Now.":

• Happy Thanksgiving! Two-Page Activity Set – Learn about how we get ready for Thanksgiving, the things we do on this holiday, and the foods that the Pilgrims are thought to have eaten during their first Thanksgiving feast.

• Family Fun and Feasts Crossword Puzzle – Learn about what we'll be eating at the family feast and what family fun we will have on this autumn holiday.

• Thanksgiving Then & Now Word Search Puzzle – Find and circle dozens of vocabulary words.

• Lined and Unlined Turkey-themed Stationery/Writing Paper – Teach how to write correspondence with the lined version, and use the unlined version as general writing paper.

Keywords: Thanksgiving | family | feast | Pilgrim | Mayflower | Native American | Indian | Plymouth | Massachusetts | traditions | turkey | Wampanoag | cranberry | harvest | parade | football

Jack Frost is starting to leave his frosty markings everywhere. This weather and Jack Frost-themed set includes both a Crossword Puzzle and a Word Search Puzzle. First, teach the folklore of Jack Frost and the science of frost – what it is, how it is formed, types of frost, and what farmers do to protect their crops from it. Then, find and circle dozens of related vocabulary words!

Comes with fun, Jack Frost-themed writing paper (lined and unlined versions).

Concepts explored: Jack Frost | weather | frost | autumn | winter | folklore | myth | legend | ice | frost | Scandinavian | farmers | dew | cold | crops | Old Man Winter | writing paper | paper

Pumpkin Festivals are popular everywhere in the fall. They're filled with excitement and bring communities together for fun, food and friendship. With this packet, kids will learn about pumpkin festivals through a range of puzzles and several exclusive event photos.

Includes:

• Pumpkin Festival Two-part activity set: with multiple puzzles – crossword, maze, fill-in and match-up
• Vocabulary Word Search Puzzle -- reinforces key vocabulary from the activity set

FREE BONUS -- Mini-Posters with Exclusive Photos

Five Fun Festival Views:

• Pumpkins in bins and crazy designs
• Jack-O'-Lanterns of all kinds
• Pumpkin Lighting – Behind the scenes
• Rides around the town (hayrides, trains, etc.)
• Zombie walk and costume parade

Fall is coming to an end. Winter is around the corner and people and animals get ready through a range of activities. This packet explores how families, pets and wild animals adapt to the changes that winter will bring.

This set includes:

• Getting Ready for Winter! Two-Page Activity Set – With themed crossword, maze, match-up, word search and match puzzle.
• Everyone’s Getting Ready for Winter! Word Search Puzzle – 50 words that reinforce the vocabulary used in the Activity Set.
• Things That Fall Puzzle – Explores the concept of gravity through a fun word search and “secret code” fill-in puzzle.
• Reading Log and Certificate Set – Themed set designed to encourage reading accomplishment.

Topics Covered: get ready for winter | winter | fall activities | autumn activities | leaves | gravity | Isaac Newton | math

Fall is here and everyone’s Getting Ready for Winter! This Word Search Puzzle includes 50 vocabulary words that describe the transition from autumn to winter.

SAVE – Buy our Getting Ready in the Fall for Winter Puzzle Pack for extra puzzles and resources!

Vocabulary Words Included:

acorns air baking birds blanket boots canning chicken soup coat cold cornstalks daylight December Father Time February football frost frozen harvest hayrides heater hibernation ice Jack Frost January leaves migration mittens Mother Nature pie planting playoffs pumpkins quilt raking salt sanding schools shoveling snow snow blower snow tires sports squirrels storing storm windows sweaters thermos winter wood piles

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Two fall gravity word puzzles and Sir Isaac Newton introduction: Things That Fall Puzzle page, which explores the concept of gravity through a fun word search and “secret code” fill-in puzzle.

SAVE – Buy our Getting Ready in the Fall for Winter Puzzle Pack for extra puzzles and resources!

Vocabulary Words Included:

acorns apples comets empires grades hail Humpty Dumpty leaves London Bridge meteors night olives parachutes peaches pears pecans people rain snowflakes stars sweat tears temperatures water balloons

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