TTT - Fall Activities

Do you know, many children learn best when they are 'hands on'? Fall is the perfect time to take your classroom outside. Teach through nature; use acorns to help with math, talk about why leaves change & watch the same tree gradually change colors, teach direction & map skills as you hike through the woods, learn about apples & pumpkins, serve others by raking leaves...

Don't be afraid to mix up your school day and have a little fall fun, learning doesn't only happen indoors. Before we know it, snow will be flying and the winter weather will keep us house bound.
Now is the time, my friends, to get adventurous, learn outside the box and enjoy the fresh air!

1. Go to an Apple Orchard. Look here to find one near you.
2. Visit a Pumpkin Patch. Look here to find one near you.
   
3. Find a corn maze to explore, many Pumpkin Patches have them.
4. Rake leaves for a neighbor or elderly couple, then treat your kids to cider and apple pie.
5. Rake leaves and play in them.
6. Make a scarecrow.
7. Read books about fall outside under a tree.
   
8. Go for a hike, explore the woods.
9. Sit outside, by the woods, at dust and see what creatures come out.
10. Go leaf hunting. See who can gather the most colors.
11. Document, through photo's, a tree changing colors.
    
12. Play name that leaf. Collect five different leaves, see who can name the most correctly. Use this leaf guide if you need to. Keep clicking through the leaves until you find the name.
    
13. Attend a Fall Festival.
14. Bob for apples.
15. Go for a bike ride.
16. Throw a Fall Party complete with a hayride & bonfire.