Fall on the Bayou
Greetings
from Southwest Louisiana! We are in Mrs. Ferguson’s
Kindergarten at Dolby Elementary in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
We had fun participating in the project. Many interesting
facts were learned about other classes and their states. In
Louisiana, our fall season is very short. Sometimes we go
straight from summer to winter.
Here are
some local websites where you can get information about our
city!
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Visit Lake Charles
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City of Lake Charles
Books
Here are just a few of the books we read:
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
by
Jeanne Titherington
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
by Lois Ehlert
Scarecrow
by Cynthia Rylant
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
by Steven Kroll.
Our
favorite was Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert.
Projects and Activities
We
love to finger paint. Using a tree trunk template, we
painted with our finger tips different colors of fall
leaves. The colors we used were red, orange, yellow and
brown.
We
created a Fall Glyph. We used our Promethean Board and
answered and illustrated these questions on OUR own! We are
so proud of the work we did.
1. If you
like the fall season color the trunk brown. If you do not
like the fall color the trunk black.
2. How many
in your family? Draw that many apples in the basket.
3. How old
are you? Draw that many leaves on the branches.
4. If you
are a girl color the leaves orange. If you are a boy color
the leaves yellow.
At
our Fall Festival we set up an area where the children could
take a fall picture. We had bales of hay, scarecrows, and loads of pumpkins.
The parents liked this idea to have a memento of their child
at the Fall Festival 2006. We also sponsored the hay
ride!
What fun that was!
We created
several acrostic poems using the word FALL. Here is one
example!
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Fall on the Bayou!
Fun
at festivals
A utumn
comes
L eaves
change
L ove
the cold weather
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Here
are a few of the Louisiana state standards that we met while
working on this fun project!
ELA Standards
Listen to a story and state orally what the story is about
(ELA-1-E5)
Answer simple questions about a story read aloud (ELA-1-E5)
Share related life experiences after stories are read aloud
(ELA-1-E6)
Retell part of a favorite story (ELA-4-E3)
Math:
Measurement
Use vocabulary such as:
yesterday, today, tomorrow,
hours, weeks, names of days, names of months;
sequence events; and identify calendars
and clocks as objects that measure time
(M-1-E)
(M-2-E) (M-5-E)
Science:
Environment and Society
Describe how seasonal changes affect people (e.g., in different seasons, people
wear different kinds of clothing) (G-1D-E2)
