Fall may be a terrific time of year for fun crafts but you don’t want
to be so focused on the fun that you forget about the great educational opportunities
that the season presents. Sure, it’s great to carve pumpkins and make
Thanksgiving turkeys out of construction paper during these months. [...]]]>

Fall may be a terrific time of year for fun crafts but you don’t want
to be so focused on the fun that you forget about the great educational opportunities
that the season presents. Sure, it’s great to carve pumpkins and make
Thanksgiving turkeys out of construction paper during these months. But in addition
to these arts and crafts, you can come up with a number of different fall activities
which give your children great educational skills. In fact, there are fall activities
to cover all of the basic school subjects and then some.

Here are some educational fall activities for each subject:

Reading / Writing

• There are many different stories out there about fall.
  Look for those that are about the changing of seasons as well as those that
  relate to the fall holidays.
• Work on learning the alphabet by practicing with fall themes.
  For example, “P is for Pumpkin” is a good way to work on that
  particular letter.
• Make a fall story book. Paste leaves and other fall items
  into a scrapbook and then work with kids to write a story that relates to
  fall.

Science

• Go outside and observe the changing seasons with kids.
  Keep photo and written journals about these changes.
• Fall animals. Activities involving squirrels and acorns
  are great for teaching kids about animals and fall.

Social Studies

• Use the holidays such as Columbus Day and Thanksgiving to teach kids about
  history.
• Explore how different cultures explore holidays in different
  ways to teach kids about diversity.
• If you taught kids about Labor Day early in the season, you can reinforce
  these lessons by bringing them back up again. Point out that work
  and community are important educational areas at all times of the
  year.

Other subjects

• Music. Kids love music and they learn a lot from it so
  incorporate fall themes and music this season. One great activities making
  musical shakers out of gourds by cleaning them out and filling them with beans.
• Motor skills. The arts and crafts that are associated with
  fall themes are good lessons in and of themselves because they teach kids
  motor skills which are an important part of the rest of their education.
• Environmental lessons. Kids can learn environmental lessons
  during the fall months by getting out and exploring nature. Take kids hiking
  or camping before it gets too cold and use it as a way to teach them about
  how to treat the earth kindly and why that’s important.

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When I began teaching
my children the Alphabet as Toddlers I found that using Alphabet Coloring Pages
was one of the most effective way to teach the Letters of the Alphabet to my
children. I already knew that they loved to color, so why not teach them the
letters in [...]]]>

When I began teaching
my children the Alphabet as Toddlers I found that using Alphabet Coloring Pages
was one of the most effective way to teach the Letters of the Alphabet to my
children. I already knew that they loved to color, so why not teach them the
letters in a way that I know will hold their focus more than 2 minutes. So,
I started printing off alphabet coloring pages from the internet and I was off
to start teaching my children the alphabet.

My young Preschoolers-To-Be
had no idea that they were going to begin a Lesson. For all they knew they were
going to have fun coloring…. and they were right.

Here are some of my kids’
favorite Alphabet Coloring Pages when they were learning the Alphabet:

• Learning
  Planet.com – Nice Collection of Printable Alphabet Coloring Pages
• Sesame
  Workshop – My Children absolutely loved these Alphabet Coloring
  Pages. The coloring pages have their favorite Sesame Street Characters.
• Coloring
  Castle.com – Simple bubble letter alphabet coloring pages. They
  have quite a few choices of different alphabet bubble letters.
• Preschool
  Coloring Book – Excellent Alphabet Coloring Pages. Preschool
  Coloring Book has so many choices of alphabet coloring pages to choose from.
  They have Plain Letters, Block Letters, Letters with Animals, Fruit &
  Vegetable Letters
• Jazzles.com
  – Very cute collection of alphabet coloring pages.
• Alphabet
  Soup – An Excellent collection of alphabet coloring pages.
• Animated
  Animals Coloring Book – Florida’s Animated Alphabet is designed
  to introduce young children to Florida’s wide variety of native wildlife and
  the interesting natural history and behavior of its wild creatures.
• Halloween
  Alphabet Coloring Pages – Since Halloween is next month I had
  to add this amazing collection of Alphabet Halloween Pages.

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