🐿️🌳 Acorns
I hope you enjoy the Acorn Unit Study Lesson Plan, here are some highlights:
Acorn Life Cycle - STEM Craft and Printable Book
Thankful Tree and Bible Memory Verses
Acorn Sight Words Bingo
Acorn Number Bonds
Acorn Pop Art
Acorn Process Art
Crystal Acorn Experiment
Felted Acorn Sensory Play
Acorn Toss
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Enjoy! Tiff
🐿️🌳 Acorns
Acorn Life Cycle
We love STEM + Craft activities! Teach the life cycle of an acorn with this fun printable book. Then practice what you learned by putting the stages of the acorn in the correct sequence in this folding STEM Craft.
Thankful Tree and Bible Memory Verses
Take time to be grateful this Thanksgiving season with this fun Thankful Tree Craft and Memory Verse pages!
First make a beautiful art display with the Lift-the-Flap Acorns and Leaves. Attach them to the printable tree provided or use twine to tie them on a garland or on a physical tree branch.
Then encourage your students to learn the word of God with these Thanksgiving Memory Verse Pages. Includes 5 different verses on being thankful, with two designs each. One is a handwriting focused page for older kids and the other is a coloring page for little ones.
English Language Arts - Sight Words Focus
Acorn Sight Words
Practice high-frequency words with this interactive acorn themed sight word pack that is perfect for a Harvest or Acorn unit.
First, practice sight word recognition with these Acorn Sight Word Flash Cards. Use the flash cards as part of the bingo game, a literacy center or include in a sensory bin.
Play with the sight words on the Tree Playmat and build a tree of sight words. Or use the Squirrel Play Mat to see how many acorns the squirrel can collect.
Then, assess student's progress with Acorn Bingo. Have one student read the Flash Cards to call out the words. Students can use actual acorns on the colored version to mark the words or use the black and white version and color in the acorns as they are called. Includes 16 different cards, 8 for the first 50 words and 8 for the second 50.
Also included is a tracking sheet. Have your students color in the star for each word that they know.
Sight Words Word Search
One great way we like to practice reading high frequency words is with a word search. We read through the word bank together to make sure that my daughter knows all the words and then she does most of the searching on her own. If she gets stuck I encourage her to pick one word and then scan each row for the main vowel in that word until she finds the word she is looking for. Works every time!
We like this activity book we got for a few bucks on Amazon. But If you would like to focus on specific words, I recommend creating your own word search, with this great FREEBIE. My daughter loves creating word searches herself and she gets a kick out of watching me find all the words! If you have more than one student, have them create word searches for each other as part of their morning work.
Reading Lessons
There are only two resources I like to make sure I include on each week’s lesson plan, Prodigies Music (below) and Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. This book has thousands of 5 star reviews on Amazon for a reason. It’s an effective, no-prep way to teach reading. We are 40 or so lessons in and I can already see a huge difference, my daughter actually sounds out the words instead of guessing.
The lessons are short (15-20min), easy to grasp and sequential. The entire lesson is scripted and color coded so it’s fool proof, just read the words in pink. It also is designed for kids that don’t know their alphabet or letter sounds yet, so you can start right away. Their claim is that after completing all 100 lessons your child will be able to read at a 2nd grade level!
Math - Number Relationships
Acorn Number Bonds
Help your students get to fluency with this Acorn themed number bonds pack. Practice combinations of 10, addition doubles, and teen number decomposition with these fun acorn themed activities. Includes number bond worksheets, counting mat and number pairs.
Art and Music
Acorn Pop Art
This pop art acorn craft, was a fun and super easy no-prep craftivity. We experimented with oil pastel crayons to try out a new art medium. My girls loved the feel of the softer oil pastel crayons and all the little boxes gave them good practice on their fine motor skills. Love how they turned out, can’t wait to see these up on our art wall!
Acorn Process Art
This was a super fun and easy art project. We taped a piece of cardstock with the word “Acorn” written on it in a cardboard box. Then we painted the acorns different colors and rolled them around in the box. It was super fun and the result was a fun mix of colors!
Supplies: cardboard box, cardstock, tape, washable paint, paint brushes, acorns.
Prodigies Music
Do…Re…Mi…
We love Prodigies! Prodigies Music is simply an incredible curriculum for teaching music. Ages 2-5 is the critical time to develop a life-long sense of pitch. Their curriculum is designed to develop a sense of pitch with easy to use desk bells that don’t require any tuning. They also teach piano, recorder and ukulele. Their subscription includes everything you can think of 450+ videos, worksheets, free bell mats, sheet music all color coded so it’s super easy to learn. If you don’t have an instrument they have a bunch of rhythm focused content that doesn’t require an instrument.
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Science
Crystal Acorn Experiment
This was our first time growing crystals and I think we are going to have to work this into more lesson plans.
I was a little worried about working with boiling water and my two year old, but she did great! The crystals grew pretty well for our first try, I think I need to do a better job of making sure all the borax dissolves next time.
But the girls loved learning about crystals and watching them form over time.
Supplies: acorns, small glass jars (we used oui yogurt jars), dowel, twine, food coloring, borax and boiling water.
Sink or Float Experiment
Teach the basics of a scientific investigation with this simple experiment. This was a great introduction to creating and testing a hypothesis. Just ask your students if they think acorns will sink or float and why.
Have them record their hypothesis first, then test if the acorns float and record the results.
Although the acorns floated initially, we left them in water for a few days and most of them sank. It was a great thing for them to observe the change over time.
Supplies: acorns, water
Sensory Play
Acorn Sensory Play
Have fun color sorting and creating rainbows with these adorable wool felt ball acorns.
We’re doing homeschool away from home this week and I still wanted to incorporate sensory play, but without a messy filler to clean. So I opted for this simple invitation to play acorn tray.
I cut the bottoms of water bottles to use for color sorting, placed them in a wood tray, added some magnetic letters, pine needles and the 100% wool felted acorns. I made the acorns myself, but they sell them pre-made on Etsy. They were ridiculously easy to make and I love how they turned out.
Supplies: cut water bottles, wood tray, felt 100% wool balls, acorn tops, hot glue, magnetic letters, pine needles.
Physical Education
Acorn Toss
Practice gross motor skills with a simple acorn toss game. Fill a small pool or plastic bin with water. Add a small bowl that floats (we used a coconut bowl), then take turns tossing the acorns into the bowl.
It’s hot here year-round so we filled a pool and jumped in with the acorns for an afternoon swim.
Supplies: acorns, bowl(s), water
Book List
Books We Love!
- I Want That Nut - Madeline Valentine
- The Nut That Fell From The Tree
- The Oak Inside the Acorn - Max Lucado
- Oh Say Can You Seed - Cat in the Hat Learning Library
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