Leaf Unit

During our leaf unit Sawyer learned to spot different colors of trees outside. Now when he sees a colorful tree he will say "That's Beautiful!". I found that this unit really help to identify the colors red and yellow; those are the only two colors he still has a little bit of difficulty identifying.


Sawyer is painting his tree trunk. We originally traced his arm and hand to make the trunk but by the time the paint got on the paper you couldn't really tell it was his hand. I guess Sawyer wanted a bigger tree than what his hand was!


Sawyer is gluing on colorful leaves to the tree. The pieces of paper are all pieces that he cut up in the previous weeks while he was practicing using scissors.


This is Sawyer's first time doing a lacing project. He had to weave the string in and out of the holes around the letter "L". He amazed me by how well he did.


We laminated leaves that I brought back from my trip to Maine. He thought it was pretty cool to help with the laminating. The painted leaves was a project that he did while at Mie Mie's house. The colored different leaves was a project he did with no problem at all. Underneath each leaf it said a color which I read to him and then he had to pick out that color crayon and color the leaf; he did great!


Focus Books:
"Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf" by Lois Ehlert
"Leaf Jumpers" by Carole Gerber
"It's Fall!" by Linda Glaser
"The Autumn Leaf" by Carl Emerson

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