Smaller Cards for Musical UNO: Colored Leaves Version

Here are the UNO playing cards in a smaller version

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HEc2un_hnPDo3wHLcCNSSdt5jbpPZbB_3Q/view?usp=sharing

UNO: Colored Leaves Version

I created a UNO Game, using staff cards printed on colored leaves.  It is played like the original UNO game, except you match note names: A,B,C,D,E,F,G, instead of numbers.  Middle C can match Treble C, and so on.  A fun way to reinforce those all important note names.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_noK3FTJrq_R19Nc0xkVy1tMjg/view?usp=sharing

Leaves in the Fall Songs

Leaves are Falling  Sung to "Are you sleeping?"

Red leaves falling, Red leaves falling   (wiggle fingers down to the ground)

On the ground, on the ground   (Hit floor 3 times)Autumn time is coming, autumn time is coming   (Clap 3 times)All around, all around   (Spread arms around in circle)

Substitute Red for the fall colors: Orange, yellow, brown.

Idea #1: You can cut out leaves from paper and pretend they are falling

Idea #2: Use scarves to pretend with as you sing about the leaves falling

Idea #3: Have leaves cut out and spread out on the floor or table. Tell the children they have to find the leaf you sing about it the song


Leaves are Falling  Sung to “Jingle Bells”

Leaves are falling, Leaves are falling

One fell on my nose

Leaves are falling, Leaves are falling

One fell on my toes

Leaves are falling, Leaves are falling

One fell on my head

Leaves are falling, Leaves are falling

Yellow, orange and red

This is the way Sung to “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”

This is the way we rake the leaves, rake the leaves, rake the leaves

This is the way we rake the leaves at Autumn time

Throw the leaves

Jump in the leaves

Five little leaves

Five little leaves in the autumn breeze

Tumbled and fluttered down from the trees

The 1st leaf said “I am red

I shall rest in a flower bed”

The 2nd leaf said “I am yellow

I’m a happy-go-lucky fellow”

The 3rd leaf said “I am green

I change color so you shall see”

The 4th leaf said “Orange am I

Brightly colored I will fly”

The 5th leaf said “I am brown

I shall blow all over town”

The leaves on the trees Sung to “The Wheels on the Bus”

The leaves on the trees are changing colors

Changing colors, changing colors

The leaves on the trees are changing colors

All around town

The wind makes the leaves go “Swish,swish, swish”

Then the leaves come tumbling down

The leaves on the ground make a crackling sound

We’ll rake them up into a pile

It Must Be Autumn  Sung to “When the Saints go Marching In”

Oh, when the leaves fall off the trees

Oh, when the leaves fall off the trees

We know it must be autumn

When the leaves fall off the trees

When the wind begins to blow

When the leaves are changing colors

When the squirrel gathers his food

When there’s a chill out in the air

When we put our jackets on

Recommended Reading

1. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert

2. Why do leaves change colors? by Betsy Maestro

3. When the leaf blew in by Steve Metzger

4. Leaves by David Ezra Stein

Candy Match Up

Here is a fun worksheet for primer levels that have students match the notes to the missing letters.  Download to print, for some reason it is not linking up right to print straight from this page.

Apple Songs

She’ll be coming round the mountain

She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes 
(YeeHaw) punch fist

She’ll be bringing big red apples when she comes 
(Oh ,boy) hands on face

She’ll be peeling big red apples when she comes 
(Ch, ch) brush hands together

She’ll be cooking big red apples when comes 
(Put em in a pot) pat legs

She’ll be making apple jelly when she comes 
(yum ,yum) rub tummy

Shake, shake the apple tree

Shake, shake the apple tree, apples red and rosy

Shake, shake the apple tree, apples red and rosy

Apples green and yummy

Apples yellow and sunny

Use shakers with this song

Five Red Apples Sung to: "This Old Man"

Way up high, in a tree (raise hands over head)
Five red apples smiled at me (smile)
So I shook that tree as har-r-d as I could (Pretend to shake tree)
Down came the apple, Ummm, it was good!!!! (Rub tummy)

Have students hold apples and countdown the apples as they fall

Five little apples

Five little apples hanging in a tree,

Teasing Mr. Slinky worm can't eat me,

Along comes Mr. Slinky worm quiet as can be...

and...CRUNCH!

He ate that apple right out of the tree.

Have students hold apples and countdown the apples as they fall

"1 little 2 little 3 little Apples"
(to the tune: 1 little 2 little 3 little Indians) 

1 little 2 little 3 little apples,
4 little 5 little 6 little apples,
7 little 8 little 9 little apples, on my apple tree.

Munch little, munch little, munch little apples
Crunch little, crunch little, crunch little apples
Bunch of little, bunch of little, bunch of little apples,
Good for you and me!

Count backwards

Apple Sauce (Sung to Peanut Butter and Jelly)

Apple, Apple Sauce Yum

Apple, Apple Sauce Yum

First you take an apple
And you skin it You skin it
And you skin it

Apple, Apple Sauce Yum
Apple, Apple Sauce Yum

Then you take the apple
And you chop it You chop it
And you chop it

Apple, Apple Sauce Yum
Apple, Apple Sauce Yum

Then you take the apple

And you squish it You squish it
And you squish it

Apple, Apple Sauce Yum
Apple, Apple Sauce Yum

Then you take the sauce
And you eat it You eat it
And you eat it

Apple, Apple Sauce Yum
Apple, Apple Sauce Yum

Five Red Apples

Five red apples hanging in a tree (Hold up five fingers)
The juiciest apples you ever did see.
The wind came by and gave an angry frown (Fingers flutter downward)
And one little apple came tumbling down (One finger falls)
Four red apples, hanging in a tree, etc.

All Around The Apple Tree Sung to: "Mulberry Bush"

Here we go round the apple tree, the apple tree, the apple tree
Here we go around the apple tree
On a frosty morning.
This is the way we climb the ladder
-pick the apples
-wash the apples
-peel the apples
-cook the apples

Ten Red Apples 

(Both hands high) Ten red apples grow on a tree
(Dangle one hand and then the other) Five for you and five for me.
(Shake body) Let us shake the tree just so
(Hands fall) And ten red apples will fall below
(Count ea. finger) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

Apple On A Stick

Apple on a stick, apple on a stick
I can lick it all day and not get sick.
Apple in a cup, apple in a cup
I can drink it all day and not fill up.
Apple in a crunch, apple in a crunch
I can eat it all day, it is so good to munch
Apple in a cake, apple in a cake
I can eat it all day with no tummy ache
Apple in a pie, apple in a pie
I can eat it all day and never cry.
Apple in a dish, apple in a dish
I can eat it all day, it's so delish!

A Wiggly Worm  Sung to: "Boom! Boom! Ain't It Great to Be Crazy?"

Chorus:
Yum! Yum! Don't you know I love apples?
Yum! Yum! Don't you know I love apples?
Red and green and yellow, too…
Yum! Yum! Don't you know I love apples?

Verse 1
Way up high in an apple tree, I saw two eyes look at me.
I reached for an apple; it started to squirm…oops! I found a wiggly worm!

Chorus

Verse 2
That wiggly worm is a friend of mine. We eat apples all the time.
I let him crawl back to that tree… hey! I see that worm looking at me!

Chorus

Apple Sung to: "Bingo"

I know a fruit that grows on trees,
An apple is its name, oh!

(Chorus)
A. P. P. L. E.
A. P. P. L. E.
A. P. P. L. E.
An apple is its name, oh!

In summer and in early fall
It's time to pick an apple!
Chorus

It may be sweet or may be tart,
It's red, or green, or yellow!
Chorus

A McIntosh or Granny Smith,
A Winesap or Delicious!
Chorus

Make applesauce or apple juice
Or apple pie with apples!
Chorus

Take away a letter from the chorus each time, clapping instead of saying the letter:

 X P P L E,  X X P L E, X X X L E, X X X X E, X X X X X