Fall is one of my favorite times of year to teach! But I am finding now a days it's VERY different from when I was little. No more costume parades, Halloween is now a bad word, pumpkins are okay, just not with faces. SOAP BOX MOMENT ALERT!!! I just don't get why this all has gone away in schools?! It's in the stores, movies, all around the kids. I'm not saying we devote an entire day to eating sugar and doing nothing. There are so many fun EDUCATIONAL activites we can do! What happened to using candy corn for artwork? Making a jack-o-lantern with recycled materials? All my wonderful October Idea books will have to continue collecting dust.
Off my soap box.....I must learn to "play in the sandbox nicely" as one of my wonderful teammates reminded me. Now I am on a mission to find all kinds of fall activities to do that have nothing to do with Halloween. So I am looking to you my wonderful blogging friends! Please post your favorite fall activity you do in your class! To get you started here's some I've found:
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