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Nuts About Squirrels
Early childhood students will develop listening skills as they read "Nuts To You" by Lois Ehlert. In this lesson students will learn about Students will learn facts about different types of squirrels and their behaviors. There will be a...
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Acorns
Students experience hoarding food for winter. In this squirrel lesson, students simulate hoarding behavior as either a red or gray squirrel. Students play a game called Winter Survival and discover how squirrels survive through the...
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Alphabet Letter a Or N Theme
Students draw a tree with acorns. They depict roots and an acorn in the soil to review plant growth and practice handwriting letter A or letter N in the writing lines. They cut an additional page for the mini-book to include the word...
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Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns
What does it mean to grow? To germinate? For the plan detailed here, class members investigate the growth process of an oak tree while focusing on the beginning stages of planting and germination. They plant seeds and record observations...
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Acorn in the Tree
In this maze worksheet, students complete a maze where they help a squirrel get through the tree to find the acorn. Students complete 1 maze total.
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Acorn Designs
Students study painting. In this art lesson, students draw an object reated to Autumn or Fall and place it into a box. Students then squeeze paint in the center of the paper and put acorns into the box rolling the acorns through the...
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Acorn Subtraction
In this subtraction learning exercise, students subtract one digit numbers that are represented by acorns. Students complete 1 subtraction problem.
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Decorating the camp cabin
Students make a decoration for their camp cabin out of materials found outside. In this decoration lesson plan, students use twigs, twine, glue, an acorn, and a penny to make a cabin creation.
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The Lost Acorns
In this early childhood acorns worksheet, students sing an acorn song and then cut the 20 acorns out. After the acorns are hidden around the room, students hunt for them and then paste their collected acorns on the provided graphic...
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Connect the Dots
For this connect the dots worksheet, learners connect the dots to link the numbers together to reveal a nutty treat for a squirrel to eat.
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Color the Happy Acorns
In this art worksheet, students color the biggest acorn brown and the smallest acorn orange. Then they color the middle size acorn yellow.
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Autumn Season
Students explore a nut theme for the autumn season. They assemble one acorn craft and use as a puppet for the introduction and presentation of the theme. They plan for a classroom bulletin board idea that incorporates the acorn craft.
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Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow
Students assemble an acorn craft to use as a puppet. They discover that acorns are the fruit and the seed from which oak trees grow. They give an example, of a historical figure or talk about a member of the community or family that...
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Acorn Craft
Students create an Acorn craft. They practice counting the template pieces and color the templates (mainly browns and autumn color for the oak leaf). They save the small image in the template to insert in the alphabet mini-books.
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Hide the Acorns
Students search for acorns. In this art lesson students imagine they are squirrels finding and storing acorns. The students dig through a water table filled with sand or soil looking for acorns that have been buried.
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Trees
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to types of trees. There are 52 earth science terms located in the word search.
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Vowels
In this grammar worksheet, students read ten sentences where the vowel is missing in some of the words. They put the correct vowel in the space to make each sentence make sense. Students also identify whether each word is a short or long...
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SEEDS WE EAT
Young scholars identify seeds humans eat and do not eat. Students make seed collections, using common kitchen foods. Young scholars display seeds from the foods they serve and discuss them with their guests. Students complete activities...