How To Draw Autumn Season For Kids

Notes:

This lesson really helps students to learn the seasons of the year and words associated with each season.

Lesson Procedure:

Warm Up and Maintenance:

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New Learning and Practice:

1. Introduce the vocab: the four seasons
Before grade prepare iv pieces of paper with the following written on:

Draw a tree. Draw flowers in the tree. Depict a lord's day and clouds in the sky.
Describe a tree. Draw lots of leaves in the tree. Draw a big sunday in the heaven.
Draw a tree. Draw some leaves in the tree. Describe leaves falling off the tree. Draw leaves on the ground. Draw clouds in the sky.
Draw a tree with no leaves. Draw snow on the ground. Depict a cloud in the sky with snow falling.

Four students are going to read these and draw the pictures on the board. Alternatively, whisper the instructions into your students' ears or show them flashcards to copy.

Introduce the vocab: the four seasons In grade, draw 4 large squares in the lath. Invite a volunteer student to come up upward to the board and draw the first picture inside the first of the 4 squares. As the student is drawing, go the other students to approximate what is in the picture (east.g. "What's this?", "Information technology'southward a tree"). Do the same with other students for the remaining 3 pictures.

Once all 4 pictures accept been drawn, bespeak at the starting time film and ask "When does the tree await like this?". Arm-twist / Teach "Spring" and write the discussion under the picture. Do the aforementioned for all for pictures and chorus each season word four times.

2. Play "Seasons Word Association Draw"
Divide the form into teams (of 3 or four students). Give each team i pen and lots small pieces of colored paper (e.thou. Team A has only red paper, Team B has only blue paper, etc.). This is very important as you will be giving scores to each team based on the amount of pictures they have drawn.

Side by side, put four boxes in the 4 corners of your classroom. Each box should be labelled with a season (e.g. 1 box will have "Leap" written on it, another "Summer", etc.).

Now model the activity: take one slice of newspaper and describe an ice cream. Elicit the word and then say "Where should I put this?" and gesture towards the 4 boxes. Later receiving a reply for summer, go to the summer box and drop the paper in it. Adjacent do the same for spring (a flower), autumn (a pumpkin) and wintertime (a woolly hat).

Play "Seasons Word Association Draw" Finally drop a prize into each box (eastward.thousand. some candy or stickers, etc.) and explain that the team with the nearly (right) pictures in each box volition win the prize. Place a timer in view of everyone and prepare 5 minutes. So say "Go!".

As each team has only one pen they will have to work together to come up with ideas and draw them. And then one histrion volition take to rush to a box and drop the picture into information technology. Teams will probably find summertime and winter piece of cake but may need some prompting from y'all for spring and fall. Every bit they are drawing, walk around and inquire questions (eastward.grand. What is that?) and elicit / teach vocab. Make sure someone draws some key vocab from the song that will be sung afterwards in the lesson (a picnic, embankment, snow).

When the timer goes off get anybody to stop. You lot are going to count the number of papers each team has in each box – merely you are going to be really strict! Throw out any badly drawn pictures which you can't guess what they are and any pictures that are incorrect or are not flavour specific. Elicit what each moving-picture show is when you concur information technology up. Count the scores and write them on the board. Then tell the class that they take an boosted 5 minutes to end merely must not draw any pictures that other teams accept drawn. Set the timer for a further 5 minutes and start.

When the timer goes off, exist strict once more nigh which pictures earn points and finally requite out the prizes to the teams with the nigh points.

3. Practice "Season objects writing" activity
Your students are going to write the words for the pictures they have just drawn, then this is a swell activity if your students are at a high enough level to write words (even with spelling mistakes). If non (for younger students), skip this activeness and go on to bespeak iv. Take the boxes with pictures inside and give the pictures out randomly to each grouping. Model by holding upwards 1 of the pictures (due east.g. a flower) and arm-twist the word. And so plough over the piece of newspaper and write "flower" on the back.

Do "Season objects writing" activity Give a time limit (say 5 minutes) and get each grouping to write words on the dorsum of as many pictures as they can, using the one pen (again, so they will have to work as a team). If a squad does not know the word, they tin transport one person upwards to the teacher with the picture to enquire what it is – simply the teacher will only say the word and volition refuse to spell it – the students will take to try their best to spell each word.

When the timer goes off, tell everyone to cease writing. On the lath draw two intersecting lines then the lath is divided into four equal squares. Write a flavor in each of the squares. Go around the class request for the words they accept written and write the words on the board – for each correct spelling the squad wins a point (too, make certain they correct their spelling mistakes on the back of the pictures). At the end total up the points and award a prize to the winning squad.

four. Play "Season Bingo"
Go on the same groups together and the pictures that they have fatigued. Become each squad to deal out the pictures then that each student is holding the same number of pictures. The class is going to play "Season Bingo" with the pictures. The teacher says a season and a word (eastward.g. "summer – ice cream") and any students holding that picture can put information technology in the eye of their tabular array. Continue going until one student has discarded his/her final card and shouted "Bingo!". Play a few rounds for fun.

Play "Season Bingo"

five. Sing "The Seasons Vocal"
Before class, print off the vocal poster for The Seasons Vocal. Put the song poster on the board and elicit the seasons and the activities on it. Then become everyone to stand up and follow you lot doing the actions and singing (equally described beneath in Gestures for "The Seasons Vocal"). Play the song through ii or three times.

Sing "The Seasons Song"

Lyrics for "The Seasons Vocal"

Chorus:
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.
Bound, Summer, Autumn, Wintertime.

Verse i:
In the spring, in the spring,
It's squeamish and warm, nice and warm,
In the leap, in the jump,
It'due south nice and warm, dainty and warm,
Let's become for a picnic!

Chorus

Poetry 2:
In the summertime, in the summer,
It's very hot, very hot,
In the summer, in the summer,
It's very hot, very hot,
Allow'southward get to the beach!

Chorus

Verse 3:
In the autumn, in the autumn,
Information technology'due south nice and cool, squeamish and cool,
In the autumn, in the autumn,
It's nice and absurd, overnice and cool,
Let's go for a walk!

Chorus

Verse four:
In the winter, in the wintertime,
It's really common cold, really cold,
In the winter, in the winter,
It's really common cold, really cold,
Let's play with the snow!

Sing "The Seasons Song"

(download MP3 here)

Gestures for "The Seasons Song"

Nosotros'll use some fun gestures with this vocal:

- during the chorus do the post-obit gestures, standing with legs autonomously (run across motion-picture show):

"Jump" - hands up at 12 o'clock
"Summertime" - hands out at iii o'clock and 9 o'clock
"Autumn" - hands straight down at 6 o'clock
"Winter" - hands out at iii o'clock and 9 o'clock

- during the verses exercise the following gestures:

"In the spring / summertime / autumn / winter ..." - hands out, waving in time with the music
(Leap) "Information technology's nice and warm" - hug yourself looking warm and happy
(Jump) "Let'southward become for a picnic" - gesture eating succulent food
(Summer) "It's very hot" - fan your face up looking hot and bothered
(Summer) "Let's go to the beach" - gesture swimming
(Autumn) "It's nice and cool" - wipe your forehead looking like yous have cooled downwardly
(Autumn) "Let's go for a walk" - gesture walking
(Wintertime) "It'due south really cold" - shiver and wait cold
(Winter) "Permit's play with the snow" - gesture patting a snowball into shape and throwing it

We also accept a video that you tin can stream in grade to sing along with (Internet connection required):

6. Read classroom reader
Allow's follow the song with a reader which uses vocabulary from the song. Nosotros have 2 dissimilar classroom readers for you to choose from:

4 Seasons (better for lower levels / younger kids)
Silly Willy'southward Seasons (meliorate for higher levels / older kids)

Four Seasons (better for lower levels / younger kids):
Read classroom reader "Four Seasons" Earlier class, download and impress off the reader "Four Seasons" from our website. As you go through each page, indicate to the pictures and elicit the seasons and climates and also ask what action nosotros tin do, for example:

Teacher: (pointing at the moving picture on page 1) Look at the girl. What's this with the girl (pointing at the dog)?
Students: A domestic dog!
Teacher: Yeah, it's her pet dog! Hello! Then, what flavor do y'all think it is?
Students: Leap!
Teacher: Aye, good job, it'due south spring! And is it cold in spring?
Students: No, it'south warm.
Teacher: Ok, permit's check (reading on folio 1) "It's spring. It'due south nice and warm". Well washed! (Reading again) "What shall we do?". Well, information technology's dainty and warm. What do you remember they should do in bound?
Students: Go for a picnic!
Teacher: Permit's see (turning the page and reading) "Allow'southward become for a picnic!". Yes, that'due south right. Look, what are they having for their picnic?
etc.

Get the students actually involved in the story past asking lots of questions virtually the different things in the pictures. When y'all go to the end, detect out which flavour each pupil likes best, for example:

Instructor: (reading on pages nine and x) "Which flavor do you similar all-time?". (Pointing at the seasons pictures) Which season do y'all similar all-time Miki?
Miki: Um ... summertime!
Teacher: The summer. Aye, I like summer too. What practise y'all exercise in summertime, Miki?
Students: I go to the embankment.
Teacher: Yes, information technology's hot in the summer, isn't it? And then the embankment is a good place to become. How almost you, Tomas? Which season practise you like best?
Students: Winter!
etc.

After reading the story, give out a reader worksheet to each student and have everyone match the seasons to the deportment. So go through the answers as a class.

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Alternatively, picket our video version of the reader (Net connectedness required):

Silly Willy'due south Seasons (amend for higher levels / older kids):
Read classroom reader "Silly Willy's Seasons" Before class, download and print off the reader "Featherbrained Willy's Seasons" from our website. As yous go through each folio, point to the pictures and elicit the seasons and talk about what Lightheaded Willy is doing, for example:

Instructor: (pointing at the movie on page 4) Await at Airheaded Willy! What is he doing?
Students: He'south going for a walk!
Teacher: Yes, that'southward correct! And how is the weather?
Students: It's sunny!
Teacher: Yes, good task! And what season exercise you retrieve it is?
Students: Bound?
Instructor: Ok, permit'due south check (reading on folio 5) "One leap day, Silly Willy went outside. It was warm and sunny. There were lots of flowers and rabbits were playing in the fields.". Good job, it is spring!

Get the students really involved in the story past asking lots of questions well-nigh the conditions during unlike months and activities they practise (and don't do) in their country, for case:

Teacher: (reading on page 5) "What did Giddy Willy do? He tried to build a snowman!". Build a snowman in spring? Practice you build snowmen in spring?
Students: No!
Teacher: Of course non. Information technology'due south likewise warm for snow in jump. When do you build snowmen?
Students: In winter!
Instructor: Yes, that's right. So what do you do in spring?
Students: Nosotros go for picnics.
etc.

Later reading the story, give out a reader worksheet to each student and have everyone reply the questions. Then get through the answers every bit a form.

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Alternatively, lookout man our video version of the reader (Internet connection required):

7. Practice the "Seasons Clock" arts and crafts
This is a great craft which you tin can hang on the classroom walls and update each season or even each month. Before class there are a few things y'all will demand to prepare:

cut big circles out of structure paper or white cardboard – enough for each group of 3 or 4 students. This will be the base of the season clock.
for spring, you'll need dissimilar colored paper or card: reds, pinks, blues, greens – students will cut into flower shapes (for actually little ones you lot'll have to cut bloom shapes out yourself before grade)
for summertime, you'll demand sand or yellow glitter (you tin can become from arts and crafts stores) – students will make a embankment scene
for fall, you lot need different colored paper or card: dark reds, oranges and browns – students will cut into leaf shapes (for actually little ones yous'll have to cutting leaf shapes out yourself before form)
for winter, you'll need cotton wool / cotton balls – students will make a snowfall scene with this.
you'll also demand gum and pens or even paint if y'all wish

Put the class into groups of 3 or 4 and give out the materials to brand the season clocks. Commencement off by getting everybody to draw 4 lines from the eye of the circle to the outside, then that you lot create iv different areas (one for each season). Write the discussion for each season in each segment. If you have taught months, get everybody to write the months in society around the edge of the clock, with 3 months in each segment (you can just utilize the start letters of each month), and so that it looks like the paradigm below:

Do the "Seasons Clock" craft

Now comes the fun part – everyone is going to become creative and decorate the clock – cutting out flower shapes and gluing onto spring, cutting out foliage shapes and gluing onto autumn, making a beach scene in summer (put glue on the newspaper so sprinkle over the sand/glitter to make the embankment – utilize blue colored pens or paint for the sea) and gluing cotton wool wool for snow in wintertime. Let everyone add extras, due east.thou. a large sun in summertime, seasonal wear, etc.

Do the "Seasons Clock" craft

When everyone has finished, stick the crafts onto the wall and give each team a pin (or something viscous, like blue tak) to place in the season (or month) that it is at present.

In time to come lessons you can refer back to the clocks and have your students move the pin every bit the seasons (and months) modify.

8. Play "Find the Season Pictures"
To stop the lesson, nosotros'll take some fun with the pictures the students drew in point 2. Clear all the desks and chairs to the edge of the room. Collect up all of the pictures and so randomly scatter them around the room. Adjacent, selection the Summertime box from point 2, and say "Ok, everyone. Find all the summer pictures and put them in the box, Ready … Go!".