Autumn Unit Study (Montessori Preschool Homeschool)

MATH

• Pumpkin Number Puzzles

• Pumpkin “Missing Number” Activity

• Pinecone Counting (on paper tree)

• Measuring Pumpkins (real ones or pictures, using a child-sized tape measure)

• Halloween Counting Cards (using stickers)

• Cards and Counters (with DIY Sandpaper Numbers & acrylic acorns)

LANGUAGE

• Beginning Letter Sounds with Autumn Picture Cards using the movable alphabet

• Beginning Letter Sounds with Halloween Picture Cards using movable alphabet

• Types of Pumpkins 3-Part Cards

• Fall Go-Togethers

• October Rhyming Riddles

• October Letter Sound Sorting

• Letter writing practice with sandpaper letters and a sand tray

• The Question Game

• Books:

  • “The Pumpkin Book” by Gail Gibbons

  • “Halloween” by NatGeo Kids

  • “The Perfect Jack-o-Lantern” by Victoria Abbott

  • “Too Many Pumpkins” by Linda White

  • “Pumpkin Jack” by Will Hubbell

  • “Hello, Fall!: A Picture Book” by Deborah Diesen

  • Little “Letter F” printable mini-book ("f" for fall")

  • “Dia de los Muertos” by Hannah Eliot

SENSORIAL

• Fall Patterning Strips

• Halloween Shape Clip Cards

• Pumpkin Pattern Matching (free for Trillium Montessori email subscribers)

• Halloween Pom-Poms - transfer & sorting by color & sorting by size

• Grading Autumn Colors

• Fall Leaves Puzzle

PRACTICAL LIFE

• Halloween pinpricking

• Pumpkin lacing card (DIY)

• Bat-themed cutting strips

• Lima bean “ghosts” spooning (or tweezer transfer) (free for Trillium Montessori email subscribers)

• Dry pouring with corn kernels

• Pumpkin hammering (medium size pumpkin, small nails, child-sized hammer)

• Pumpkin washing & carving

• Pumpkin seed washing & roasting

• Raking leaves (in the yard) with a child-sized rake

CULTURAL STUDIES

• Pumpkin Life Cycle cards

• Spider Life Cycle 3-Part Cards

• Parts of a Pumpkin cards (explore with a real pumpkin)

• Spring & Autumn Leaves Sorting

• Leaf Color Sequencing

• Make Pumpkin Slime

MUSIC

• “Orange Pumpkin” song

• “I’m a Hungry Spider” song & rhyming activity

ART

• Halloween in Paintings Matching

• Apple Stamping

• Cork Tree/Leaves Painting

• Gourd Painting

• Paper Plate Spider Web

• Make a Jack-o-Lantern

• Fall Colors Leaf Rubbing Collage (with collected leaves from the yard)

• Pumpkin Handprint Keepsake

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