Lindsay Lile 1
Leaf Mural
Purpose: For students to create a tree with leaves falling to represent the season change from summer to fall.
Procedure: -Make a tree on a piece of white butcher paper.
-Lay it out on the floor and let the students sponge paint leaves on and around the tree. (This should be done in groups of 3 or 4).
-Write “Falling into autumn” on the top of the paper and hang it on a bulletin board.
Materials: -Brown, red, yellow, green, and orange tempera paint.
-Paper plates
-Sponge cut outs of different size leaves
-White butcher paper
Rubric: Outstanding: (5pts) Student participated in painting leaves on and around the tree.
Needs improvement: (0pts) Student did not want to participate in the activity.
Lindsay Lile 2
Food Pyramid
Purpose: To teach children about the food pyramid.
Procedure: -Explain the basics of the pyramid to the students.
-Have students cut pictures of food from magazines.
-Let the children place the food in the correct area of the pyramid. (You should make a large pyramid prior to class.
Hang the food pyramid filled with pictures on a bulletin board.
Materials: -Food Pyramid
-Magazines
-Tape
-Scissors
Rubric: Excellent (5pts): Student cut out food pictures and placed them in the correct area on the pyramid.
Great (4pts): Student cut out food pictures and needed assistance placing them in the correct group.
Good (3pts): Student found pictures and attempted to cut them out but needed assistance in doing this.
Lindsay Lile 3
Spider Activity
Purpose: To teach children what spiders are and that some can be helpful in keeping harmful insects out of gardens.
Procedure: -Introduce the students to what spiders are and read the “The Little Miss Muffet” poem.
-Use black construction paper to make spider bodies and heads.
-Have precut circles for eyes already cut out.
-Connect the legs to your spider bodies with brass fasteners and the hang them up on the garden bulletin board.
Materials: -Brass fasteners
-Black construction paper
-Pre cut red circles
-Scissors
Rubric: Awesome (5pts): Student successfully made a spider with eight legs and hung it up on the garden bulletin board.
Great (4pts): Child made a spider without the correct number of legs and hung it up on the garden.
Good (3pts): Child made a Spider and hung it up but needed assistance in all areas.
Lindsay Lile 4
Jungle Animals
Purpose: To get to know the students and what type of animals they like.
Procedure: -As an opening activity introduce what a jungle is and interact with the students by asking what type of Jungle animals they like.
-Provide them with supplies to make their own animal.
-Once the animals are made have the students write their names on them and then hang them up on the jungle bulletin board.
Materials: -Construction paper (variety of colors)
-Crayons
-Glue
-Fasteners
-Glitter (any extras you can think of)
Rubric: Excellent (5pts): Student participated in an out loud discussion and made their animal and wrote his/her name on it.
Good (4pts): Student didn’t participate in the out loud discussion but did make an animal and hang it up.
Needs Improvement (2pts): Student didn’t want to participate in the activity, just did something on their own at the desk.
Lindsay Lile 5
October Spiders
Purpose: To find out if students are interested in spiders.
Procedure: Read The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
-Discuss the book
-Have students make spider prints to hang up on a web Bulletin board.
-Place the palm and four fingers in dark green tempura paint (exclude the thumb).
-Press your hand onto a white piece of paper.
-Turn the paper around and do it again this time overlapping the palms so that you have 8
appendages.
-Then dip the end of an eraser into red paint and make two eyes.
-Once they are dry hang them on the board.
Materials: -Green and red paint
-White paper
Rubric: Excellent (5pts): Student listened to the story and made a spider.
Good (4pts): Student didn’t pay attention to the story but did make a spider.
Needs improvement (2pts): Student didn’t do the correct activity.
Lindsay Lile 6
Thanksgiving Day Mural
Purpose: To understand the first Thanksgiving Day story
Procedure: -Read a book about the first Thanksgiving Day.
-Talk about it and make sure they understand.
-Provide the children with sheets to color of Pilgrims, Indians, food, and boats.
-Have the students paint a mural of two pieces of land on either side of a section of water.
-Have them cut out their pictures and place the Indians on one side with the food and the Pilgrims on the other side and the boats in the middle.
-Hang this up on a bulletin board.
Materials: -Paint
-Butcher paper
-Scissors
-Glue
-Indian, Pilgrim, Food and Boat papers
Evaluation: Excellent (3pts): Student participated by making Pilgrims, Indians, food, or boats. Student helped paint the mural and hung up the cut outs on the mural.
Great (2pts): Student made a Pilgrim or an Indian and hung it up on the board.
Needs improvement (Opts): Student did not participate.
Lindsay Lile 7
Apple Poetry
Purpose: To introduce young students to poetry and the life cycle of an apple
Procedure: Read and discuss The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
-Get real apples, discuss the different names and types of apples and do a tasting.
-Cut apples and make a graph by using the apple and paint.
-Have students match pictures of the apple to the correct stages.
Materials: Apples
-Paint
-Large paper to make graph
_The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Rubric: Excellent (3pts): Student participated in the activity and match the life cycle correctly.
Great (2pts): Student participated and matched some of the life cycle correctly.
Needs improvement (1pt): Student participated but didn’t match any of the life cycle correctly.
Lindsay Lile 8
Awesome Autumn Attractions
Purpose: To display students work that they choose is appropriate. This could include art work.
Procedure: -Cover a bulletin board and label it Awesome Autumn Attractions.
-Hand up and work a student thinks is good enough to put up.
-This can be used for several weeks in the fall just keep changing the work.
Material: -Butcher paper, border
-Stapler
-Student’s work
-Letters
Evaluation: -Excellent (3pts): Student came to you with numerous works to have hung up.
Great (2pts): Student came to you with a piece of work.
Needs Improvement (0pts): Student didn’t choose any work to be displayed.
Lindsay Lile 9
Blast off to a Great Year
Purpose: To make the students excited about the upcoming school year.
Procedure: -Cover a bulletin board with dark blue paper and a border.
-Make a large space ship with the class room number and grade on the side of it.
-Have the students make an alien that represents them and write their name on it.
-Hang the aliens around the space ship.
Materials: -Crayons
-Scissors
-Glue
-Paper
-Letters
-Space shuttle
Rubric: Excellent (5pts): Student participated and made an alien and then wrote his/her name on it.
Great (4pts): Student made an alien and needs help writing his/her name.
Good (3pts): Student attempted to make an alien but needed some assistance with cutting, etc.
Lindsay Lile 10
Gumballs
Purpose: To include the students in making a welcome sign for the classroom.
Procedure: Draw a huge gumball machine on a piece of paper to go on the door.
-Have students cut out circles and write their names in them.
-Take a picture of the student and have them glue it in the circle above their name.
-Have them glue the gumball on the gumball machine.
-Then the teacher can hang it on the door.
Materials: -Butcher paper
-Various colors of construction paper
-Digital or Polaroid camera.
-Glue
-Scissors
-Crayons or markers
Rubric: Excellent (5pts): Student cut out a circle, glued on his/her picture, and wrote his/her name on the circle.
Great (4pts): Student cute out a Circle and glued on his/her picture and needed help writing his/her name.
Good (3pts): Student tried to cut out the circle and needed some assistance. Student successfully glued on their picture.