• Pre-school

Raccoons and Ripe Corn by:Jim Arnosky

Pumpkin, Pumpkin by:Jeanne Titherington

Marmalade's Yellow Leaf by:Cindy Wheeler

Barn dance by:Bill Martin

Nothing at all by:Denys Cazet

Apples and Pumpkins by:Anne Rockwell

Scarecrow Scarecrow

[activity]
Scarecrow scarecrow, turn around
Scarecrow scarecrow touch the ground
Scarecrow scarecrow show your shoe
Scarecrow scarecrow better say "Boo!"

Five Red Apples

[fingerplay or use apples with glove puppet]
Five red apples in a grocery store;
Bobby bought 1, then there were 4.
Four red apples on an apple tree;
Susie ate 1 and that left 3.
Three red apples. What did Alice do?
She ate 1 and that left 2.
Two red apples ripening in the sun;
Jimmy ate another and that lef 1.
One red apple and now we are done;
I ate the last one. Now there are none.

Apple Tree

[activity]
Away up high in an apple tree [reach up]
Two red apples smiled at me.
I shook that tree as hard as I could [make fists & pretend to shake something]
Down came the apples -
[rub tummy]Mmmm - they were good.

Raking Leaves

[activity]
I rake the leaves [motion of raking]
When they fall down [raise arms & let fingers fall gradually]
In a great big pile [spread arms to indicate wide pile]
And when there are enough of them,
I jump on them awhile. [jump several times]

Rainy Day

[activity - do motions as indicated]
Slip on your raincoat
Pull on your galoshes
Jumping in puddles
Making splishes and sploshes !

Rain on Green Grass

[cut & tell activity rhyme-Pattern]

Rain on the green grass
Rain on the tree.
Rain on the housetop, But not on me. Why not?
[unfold cut out shape] Because I have an umbrella

Die cut leaf shapes and have children paste them onto construction paper.

Gather actual leaves. Using crayons over white paper, have children make leaf rubbings.