Peek At My Week 9/27
Now that it’s almost the end of September, I felt like some fall activities would be just the ticket this week!
Craft: Handprint Trees and Falling Leaves
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I’ve seen Pinterest pins using all sorts of handprints for different crafts, but most included paint. With such short sessions, I didn’t want to have to worry about washing hands! My school has an elision cutter, so I cut some assorted tiny leaves out of red, green, yellow, and orange paper. I had my students trace there hands for the tree part and glue on some leaves. The picture below was my sample for them to see a finished product.
We talked about synonyms (fall/autumn, etc), multiple meaning words (fall, trunk), answered WH questions about the fall season, talked about the process of leaves turning pretty colors and falling off the trees and generally had a good time. For some of my younger kids, we read We’re Going On a Leaf Hunt, which is a great book!
I see preschool-6th grade students with a wide range of goals, so I used the craft with almost all the students, but tailored drill-like activities around it. If they were articulation kids, I wrote some words on their leaves to take home and practice. If they were language kids, they got to glue a couple leaves after answering a question or two. It was a great way to target a variety of goals while still making speech fun AND effective.
What did you do this week?
What did you do this week?
Great idea! Wish one of my schools had that small leaf die!