It seems like the school year ends, summer flies by, and just like that, it’s back-to-school time! Once the whirlwind of summer settles down, it’s time to plan some fun, low-prep activities to help your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade students review important skills and ease into the new school year.
Our team rounded up some of our favorite beginning-of-fall math and literacy activities by grade level below. And the best part? These are just a small sample of the seasonal resources available inside Lucky Little Learners All Access.
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🍂 Kindergarten Fall Themed Review
Let’s peruse some beginning of fall activities for our littlest learners.
Math
Math puzzles are an excellent choice for Kindergarteners (and all other grades) due to their easy differentiation. Your students come in your classroom door with different academic strengths and needs. You need activities they will all be able to accomplish independently, no matter their skill level. The fall themed math puzzles are editable for easy lesson planning!
Math puzzles can be done the following ways:
- Already put together, students write the answer in the circle and color the puzzle picture
- Already cut: cut the puzzle strips apart and place them in baggies. Students will practice ordering them and answering the problem in the circle.
- Just ordering: for skills like counting and least to greatest, give students an already filled in puzzle, they will just need to put the pieces in the correct order
- Laminated or not: if you want to reuse the puzzles, laminate them. If you want students to be able to bring them home, do not laminate.
ELA
Practice your consonants in an engaging way that may give students a case of the giggles. Alliteration is a form of poetry in which the author tries to use the same first letter in as many words as possible. For example, “Callie the cow camps with cool cats.”
Add these posters to your consonant scope and sequence to have your students excited to see what the next poem brings.
🍂 1st Grade Fall Themed Review
First graders may enter the school year seeming like kindergarteners still, but after a bit of review they are ready to go!
Math
Bring some appletastic fun to your 1st grade classroom this fall with this apple graphing activity.
Apple graphing can be done in a couple ways:
- Give each student one of the paper apple templates and have them color it red, yellow or green. (Whichever kind of apple they like the most.) Then, create a graph with these apples on the board. Students will follow along, filling in their graph.
Whichever way your class completes apple graphing, be sure to ask and answer math questions about your data.
AND, if you like this apple activity, try an entire Johnny Appleseed Day Party Plan! Our team has planned out the entire day, down to the snacks and decorations.
Read about Johnny Appleseed day here: Johnny Appleseed Party Plan for 1st Grade.
ELA
Get your first graders back in to the school swing with a first day of school writing prompt. Then, keep this prompt in a file and compare it to a writing sample the next month. At the end of the school year, students and parents will love looking through their writing portfolio to see how much progress has been made.
🍂 2nd Grade Fall Themed Review
2nd graders will benefit from reviewing their 1st grade skills.
Math
Kickoff your math centers for the year in an engaging way with a graphing school supplies activity. Start whole group by having students take their new supplies out of their backpacks, or desks, and graphing how many glue sticks, bottles, pencils, scissors, etc their table has. Then, have students organize and put those supplies away. This is a great way to get organized while tapping into math skills!
ELA
Get your word study off to an autumn-themed start with a collection of fall themed worksheets. These sheets can be used for sight words, spelling words or to pair with your phonics study. Students will love the variety!
🍂 3rd Grade Fall Themed Review
Math
Ease students into their math year with fall themed color by number sheets, perfect for review!
ELA
Bring your sound wall to life with these student booklets that include posters for each sound, a word list (with blanks to write their own sound words) and sound how tos.
If you are new to the world of Sound Walls, check out this post: Let’s Talk About the Classroom Sound Wall.
Hopefully these beginning-of-fall activities help you start the school year with plenty of engaging ways to review important skills.
And when fall turns into winter, winter turns into spring, and another holiday or classroom theme pops up, you don’t have to start searching from scratch.
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