A perfect dancey lesson for fall.

Come with a pile of different leaves. Talk about the shapes, colors and sizes. Stand up and drop one of the leaves watching carefully how it falls. Have one of the toads try dropping a different leaf. Have all the toads bring their hands up and on the count of 3 drop them as gently and twirly as the leaves did.

Break into song/dance...

Here is my ditty about fall (sung to "The Wheels on the Bus")

The leaves from the trees fall down, down, down {bringing your hands slowly down}

down, down, down

down, down, down

The leaves from the trees fall down, down, down

All through the town

The bugs in the leaves go creepity, crawl {marching sharply with monster claw hands}

creepity, crawl, creepity, crawl

(repeat)

All through the town

The birds on the trees sing tweet, tweet, tweet {flapping your arms}

tweet, tweet, tweet

tweet, tweet, tweet

(repeat)

All through the town

The leaves on the ground go crunch, crunch, crunch {jumping to each "crunch"}

crunch, crunch, crunch

crunch, crunch, crunch

(repeat)

All through the town

Uh oh...

Now leaves on the trees are all gone, {jumping jacks}

all gone,

all gone

(repeat)

All though the town (with one big crescendo!!!) {spin in a circle}

Blowing Leaves Activity:

This is done with the toads spread out in the room and legs planted in ground like roots in a tree. Start with arms up to the sky; the wind starts to blow swaying you back and forth. The wind blows harder and the bottom branches swing; swinging your arms down low. Then the wind blows so hard that it takes up the roots and it blows you away; running and twirling around the room. Repeat several times with music. We also did this with activity with colorful ribbon wristbands.