There's a chill in the air, it's time for fall fun! Join us this week as we explore the season.
#READ – Taking a Walk: Fall in the Country by Sue Tarsky
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Join the fun of finding and counting all the animals, flowers, and insects, as more and more appear on a lively walk through the country in the fall. Packed with repetition that young children love and that also helps them learn, this is an entertaining introduction to colors, numbers, and the seasons.
Increase pre-literacy skills as you read together:
- On each new page, have your little one search for and count the new items that were added. For example, find and count the two galloping horses.
- Act out the story. Try to:
- Gallop like a horse
- Howl like a fox
- Jump like frog
- Dig like a squirrel
- Run fast like a hare
- Fly or honk like a goose
- As you reach each new number or after reading, demonstrate writing the numbers on a sheet of paper or in the air.
#SING – All the Leaves are Falling Down
Tune: London Bridge is Falling Down
All the leaves are falling down
Falling down, falling down.
All the leaves are falling down,
It is fall time.
Take the leaves and crunch them up,
Crunch them up, crunch them up.
Take the leaves and crunch them up.
It is fall time.
Watch them drifting to the ground,
To the ground, to the ground.
Watch them drifting to the ground.
It is fall time.
Take a rake and rake them up,
Rake them up, rake them up.
Take a rake and rake them up.
It is fall time.
#EXPLORE – Foil Fall Tree
Materials:
- Paper
- Paint: brown, yellow, orange, red
- Aluminum foil
- Paintbrush
- Flat dish for paint
Instructions:
- Using the brown paint and paintbrush, paint a tree trunk onto the paper.
- Squeeze the yellow, orange, and red paint onto a flat dish.
- Loosely crumple up the aluminum foil.
- Dip the foil into the multi-colored paint and press it onto the paper to create the leaves of the tree.
#JOIN – For more fall fun, sign up for our virtual or in-person programs!
Pop-Up Storytime
Join us for a storytime either outside of our library or in the community! Your child loves singing, dancing, playing and reading! Gather them around for a storytime they won’t forget featuring We're Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger and Full of Fall by April Pulley Sayre.
Little Readers
F is for fall! This literacy-based program is for children from birth to pre-k and their families. We will sing, talk, read, write, and play together to develop the pre-literacy skills your little ones need to get ready to read and write. We will share We're Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger and Full of Fall by April Pulley Sayre.
Virtual Little Movers & Shakers
Let’s get the wiggles out! This music-based program is for children from birth to pre-k and their families. Through books, songs, and movement activities we will build pre-literacy skills. Get moving with We're Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger and One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count with Me! by John Micklos Jr.
