November themes & activities

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I do apples, farm, harvest in Sept/Oct and then Halloween so I can save the fall leaves, squirrels and acorns, getting ready for winter for November. I just can't bring myself to talk about red leaves falling down when all we see are green leaves and were playing outside in our tshirts.

Climate seems to be changing and also with toddlers they need to see things for it to make sense. Now that we are seeing the leaves turn colours and fall off and the squirrels getting really busy - saw my first geese fly over a couple days ago too - yuk - we can do activities based on what we are seeing.

November is a good month to do fairy tales and stories that take place in the forest so you talk a lot about trees, the animals that live in the forest and that leads you into hibernation and animals getting ready for winter, then tell a story of a family going into the forest to choose a tree for Christmas and bringing it home decorating and transition into Christmas.