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Educational Fall Activities November 7

Fall may be a terrific time of year for fun crafts but you don’t want to be so focused on the fun that you forget about the great educational opportunities that the season presents. Sure, it’s great to carve pumpkins and make Thanksgiving turkeys out of construction paper during these months. But in addition to these arts and crafts, you can come up with a number of different fall activities which give your children great educational skills. In fact, there are fall activities to cover all of the basic school subjects and then some.

Here are some educational fall activities for each subject:

Math

Counting activities using fall themes. The “5 Little Pumpkins” song is just one example of a fall-themed counting activity that can be enjoyed by kids while they learn some new skills.
Measuring and counting when making fall recipes. Use cooking activities during the fall to warm up the house or classroom and get the kids using math during daily activities.

Reading / Writing

There are many different stories out there about fall. Look for those that are about the changing of seasons as well as those that relate to the fall holidays.
Work on learning the alphabet by practicing with fall themes. For example, “P is for Pumpkin” is a good way to work on that particular letter.
Make a fall story book. Paste leaves and other fall items into a scrapbook and then work with kids to write a story that relates to fall.

Science

Go outside and observe the changing seasons with kids. Keep photo and written journals about these changes.
Fall animals. Activities involving squirrels and acorns are great for teaching kids about animals and fall.

Social Studies

Use the holidays such as Columbus Day and Thanksgiving to teach kids about history.
Explore how different cultures explore holidays in different ways to teach kids about diversity.
If you taught kids about Labor Day early in the season, you can reinforce these lessons by bringing them back up again. Point out that work and community are important educational areas at all times of the year.

Other subjects

Music. Kids love music and they learn a lot from it so incorporate fall themes and music this season. One great activities making musical shakers out of gourds by cleaning them out and filling them with beans.
Motor skills. The arts and crafts that are associated with fall themes are good lessons in and of themselves because they teach kids motor skills which are an important part of the rest of their education.
Environmental lessons. Kids can learn environmental lessons during the fall months by getting out and exploring nature. Take kids hiking or camping before it gets too cold and use it as a way to teach them about how to treat the earth kindly and why that’s important.

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