L is for Leaf Lesson

This lesson is part of a series of home preschool lessons I do for 2 and 3 year olds. Click to see How I Do Letter of the Week Lessons and the Preschool learning supplies I use.

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At the beginning of the lessons I usually show the clip from the Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD for the featured letter and we practice singing the letter sound. Then I introduce the topic for the day and we do a letter craft based around it.

Books We Read:

Leaves by David Ezra Stein

This fun book shows bear’s new experiences with leaves as he tried to stop them from falling off the trees.

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

This creative book has all the pictures made out of leaves laid out to make different images. We did an extension craft for kids to make their own pictures out of leaves.

We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger

In the style of “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” this a great book for exposing kids to different kinds of leaves and to build excitement to go on our own leaf hunt.

Activities We Did:

–L is for Leaf Do a Dot Sheet

-We went on a leaf hunt to collect leaves around my yard.

-Made leaf imprint pictures with crayons and leaves under the paper

-Made leaf men out of the leaves they collected

-Sang leaf songs:

Leaves are Falling All Around

Leaves are falling all around,

On the housetops, on the ground.

Leaves are falling on my nose,

On my head and hands and toes.

In the Leafy Treetops

In the leafy treetops, the birds sing “Good morning.”
They’re first to see the sun.
They must tell ev’ryone.
In the leafy treetops, the birds sing “Good morning.”

-Leaf sorting activity- I had three different colors of leaves hidden around the room and the kids had to find them and sort them into the correct pile