Autumn Poems

[Guest]

Looking for a simple poem on Autumn to use next week. I have looked in some poetry books at home but they are too difficult.

[Guest]

Just a few - not sure whether you wanted to talk about pumpkins etc as well.

 

Rain of Leaves

 

It’s raining big,

It’s raining small,

It’s raining autumn leaves

In fall.

 

It’s raining gold

And red and brown

As autumn leaves

Come raining down.

 

It’s raining everywhere

I look.

It’s raining bookmarks

On my book!

 

Pumpkins

 

When you see me in the fields,

My orange glowing in the sun,

It's time to say goodbye to summer

and hello to autumn fun!!

 

Vegetables

 

We are pumpkins, big and round,

Big and round, big and round.

We are pumpkins, big and round,

Seated on the ground.

 

We are string beans green and fine.....growing on a vine.

We are onions round and white....we make soup taste right.

We are carrots, orange and long...help us sing the song.

We are cabbage green or red....see our funny head.

We are corn stalks tall and straight...don't we just taste great!

 

 

Squirrel

Gray Squirrel, Gray Squirrel

Shake your bushy tail (pretend to shake tail)

Gray Squirrel, Gray Squirrel

Shake your bushy tail (pretend to shake tail)

Wrinkle up your funny nose (act out line)

Put a nut between your toes (pretend to eat a nut)

Gray Squirrel Shake your bushy tail (Pretend to shake a tail)

 

Autumn Leaves

 

The leaves are falling down.

The leaves are falling down.

Red, yellow, green and brown.

The leaves are falling down.

 

Autumn Poem

 

Red and yellow, green and brown.

count off colors on fingers

Leaves are falling to the ground.

simulate falling leaves with hands

We pile them up OH SO HIGH:

'pile' leaves with hands

Then we JUMP in!

pretend to jump in

My dog and I!

 

Five little leaves

 

Five little leaves so bright and gay

were danicng worund on a tree one day.

The wind came blowing through the town

whooooooooooo... Whooooooooo

And one little leaf came tumbling down.

 

Four little leaves, etc

 

Hope they are of use to you.

[Inge]

Autumn leaves are falling down,

red green yellow orange and brown,

falling gently to the ground

 

Inge

[Guest]

Just what I was after, many thanks to you both.

[Guest]

Looking for a simple poem on Autumn to use next week.  I have looked in some poetry books at home but they are too difficult.

41512[/snapback]

 

We had our harvest festival a couple of weeks ago and sang a couple of songs.

 

To the tune of farmers in his den

 

The leaves are falling down

The leaves are falling down

Red, yellow, green and brown

The leaves are falling down

 

And

 

To the tune of I hear thunder

 

Leaves are falling

Leaves are falling

On the ground

On the ground

Autumn time is soon here

Autumn time is soon here

All around

All around

[Guest]

I'm spoilt for choice!

[Andreamay]

My children at pre-school absolutly love the 5 little leaves so bright and gat cos of the sound effects of the wind they all join in even the ones who dont usually!

[Guest]

In the Autumn

(She'll be coming round the mountain)

 

When the leaves are red and yellow in autumn (clap, clap)

When the leaves are red and yellow in autumn (clap, clap)

When the leaves are red and yellow, then the apples taste so mellow.

When the leaves are red and yellow in autumn (clap, clap)

Oh, the air is crisp and colder in autumn (brr, brr)

Oh, the air is crisp and colder in autumn (brr, brr)

Oh the air is crisp and colder and the wind is getting bolder.

Oh, the air is crisp and colder in the autumn.

[Guest]

I dont know if any of these have aready been posted.

 

Autumn songs, rhymes and poems.

 

5 red squirrels

 

5 red squirrels bushy and sweet,

(hold up fingers of one hand)

 

Are looking for some nuts to keep.

(hand in front of eyes – looking all around)

 

One red squirrel climbs a tree

(Mime climbing)

 

Shuts his eyes and falls asleep.

(Pretend to be asleep)

 

So that leaves four red squirrels.

(clap, clap, clap, clap, then hold up 4 fingers ready for next verse)

 

 

Leaves on an Autumn day.

 

Rustling through leaves on an Autumn day.

(children mime walking through leaves)

 

I found a conker in my way

I picked it up and polished with delight

(Pretend to pick it up and polish)

 

My one brown conker(s) shined so bright.

(Hold up one finger)

 

Continue to two, three, four conkers and so on.

 

 

Autumn leaves are falling down.

(Tune: ‘London bridge is falling down)

 

Autumn leaves are falling down,

Falling down, falling down.

Autumn leaves are fall down ,

In my garden.

 

Autumn leaves of red and gold,

Red and gold, red and gold.

Autumn leaves of red and gold

In my garden.

 

Whirling, twirling, swirling down,

Swirling down, swirling down.

Whirling, twirling, swirling down

In my garden.

 

Repeat first verse.

 

 

Squirrel store

 

1 nut, 2 nuts, 3 nuts, 4.

Squirrels go gathering a winter store.

 

5 nuts, 6 nuts, 7 nuts, 8.

Leaves are falling so they mustn’t be late.

 

9 nuts, 10 nuts, here comes the snow.

A scurry and a skip and away they go!

 

 

One little acorn

 

One day in Autumn, I found,

One little acorn lying on the ground.

 

One day in Autumn, I found,

One little acorn,

Two little beech nuts,

Three little conkers

Lying on the ground.

 

 

One little hedgehog

 

One little hedgehog

Hiding in the leaves,

Snuffle snuffle, sniff sniff.

 

Actions

This is a simple counting rhyme. Increase the number of hedgehogs as you wish. Children have to hold up the correct number of fingers. The children sneeze after they say the word ‘sneeze’, between each verse.

 

 

Autumn carpet

 

Leaves are falling

In the street,

To make a carpet

For our feet.

One leaf,

Two leaves,

Three leaves,

Four!

Wind blows stronger –

HUNDREDS more!

Crisp and crunchy

Shades of brown,

An Autumn carpet

Cloaks the town.

 

When do Autumn begin?

 

How do we know when autumn’s here?

Here are the signs that autumn’s near:

 

Sleepy birds will fly away

And not return ‘til warmer days.

 

Leaves will change from green to red

And start to fall around your head.

 

Conkers grow on Horse chestnut trees

A cold wind blows around your knees.

 

Animals are safe and sound

In burrows hidden underground.

 

Woolly hats and scarves appear

Bonfire night is drawing near.

 

The clearest sign that summer’s lost

Is autumn’s first white, crunchy frost.

 

Autumn starts with many things

Robins, fireworks, harvest hymns.

 

How do we know when autumn’s near?

All these things says that autumn’s here!

 

Who am I.

 

I shake the trees.

I blow the smoke.

I empty dustbins for a joke.

 

I make the clouds race in the sky.

I lift your kite and hold it high.

 

Who am I?

 

Flying away

 

‘We’re off now’, said the swallows,

‘Off to find the sun.

We’re going to fly to Africa,

Now that autumn’s come.

 

We’re sorry to be going,

But we have to leave you here.

Watch out for us returning

To these parts again next year’.

 

(Can you pretend that your hands are birds flying?)

 

 

 

Here are the trees.

 

Here are the trees so leafy and tall’

(Stand with arms up as branches, hands and fingers extended.)

 

Look at the leaves as they shrivel and fall.

(Curl up hands, then use them to show leaves falling down towards groud.)

 

Listen and hear what a whispery sound…

(Place hand to ear to suggest listening. Some children can make whispery noises too.)

 

they make as they flutter and float to the ground.

(Bring leaf-hands right down to rest on the floor for brief pause.)

 

Here are the branches, so naked and plain,

(Stand and extend arms again, this time with fists closed and arms slightly drawn in.)

 

waiting for Spring when the leaves grow again.

(Open hands to show fingers stretched out.

Push arms out a little to emphasize gesture.)

 

 

Sycamore seed

 

Sycamore, sycamore, Summer has gone.

Leave your tree and fly for a home!

 

Sycamore, sycamore, nights draw in.

Slip from the branch and spread your wing!

 

Sycamore, sycamore, spin to land,

Writing your name on the Autumn wind.

 

I’m a little conker!

 

I’m a little conker,

Shiny, brown,

And I’ve just come

Tumbling down!

Here I lie

Upon the ground

Bursting, waiting

To be found!

[Guest]

Wow, thanks for all that!

[Guest]

Wow, thanks for all that!

41616[/snapback]

 

hi. I'd like to share this one (I love hedgehogs!)

 

Hibernating Hedgehogs

 

Here comes winter,

Cold and grey.

It's time to tuck

myself away

 

Here comes ice

and here comes snow.

I need somewhere

warm to go.

 

Here comes mist

and freezing fog.

Here's a good old

hollow log.

 

And here's a pile

of leaves that's deep

I'll roll up here

and go to sleep.

 

----- I love love the chanting rythmn - so do the children. It's easy to learn and you can invent actions too. suel

[Marion]

Autumn leaves

Leaves on the ground are turning,

Yellow, brown and red.

Smoke from the bonfire burning,

Climbing overhead.

Here comes Autumn to bring the mist and rain.

Summer has gone for another year,

Autumn's here again.

 

 

 

 

 

Falling leaves

All the leaves are falling down,

Orange, yellow, red and brown.

Falling softly as they do,

Over me and over you.

All the leaves are falling down,

Orange, yellow, red and brown.

 

Ten Round Pumpkins

Ten round pumpkins, sitting on the wall,

Ten round pumpkins, sitting on the wall.

And if one round pumpkin,

Should accidentally fall.

 

There'll be, nine round pumpkins, sitting on the wall.

Nine round pumpkins, sitting on the wall.

And if one round pumpkin,

Should accidentally fall.

 

There'll be, eight round pumpkins, sitting on the wall.

Eight round pumpkins, sitting on the wall.

And if one.........

 

There'll be one round pumpkin, sitting on the wall,

One round pumpkin, sitting on the wall.

And if that round pumpkin,

Should accidentally fall,

There'll be no round pumpkins, sitting on the wall.