Lyrical Seasons

Materials

none

Instructions

String three apple cutouts and three pumpkin cutouts from the coat hangers.
What To Do
1. Gather the children together. Talk with the children about how the autumn is
a common time for farmers to harvest certain foods. Explain that apples and
pumpkins are frequently harvested in the autumn.
2. Show the children the cutouts of the apples and pumpkins. Hang the two coat
hangers from the ceiling, and attach the remaining three images of each food
to the wall, or hold them up in front of the children.
3. Talk about how there are many apples and pumpkins that people harvest in
the autumn, so many that it can be hard to keep track of them all.
4. Challenge the children to recite the following, counting the different number
of cutouts of each food:
Apple and Pumpkin Count by Ingelore Mix
One apple there.
Two apples here.
Three apples hanging
From a chandelier.
How many apples?
One pumpkin there.
Two pumpkins here.
Three pumpkins hanging
From a chandelier.
How many pumpkins?
5. Some children will be able to count all the pumpkins and apples, while others
will benefit from counting only those on the chandeliers or on the wall.
Assessment
To assess the children's learning, consider the following:
l Can the children identify the apples and pumpkins by name?
l Can the children say in which season people commonly harvest apples and
pumpkins?
l Can the children count the number of apple and pumpkin cutouts?