🔬5′ Activity 1: Experiment time ! We place one pinecone on hot water and one in cold and try to guess what will happen. Leave the two jars aside for the rest of the lesson.

🔍4′-5′ Activity 2: Review vocabulary such as autumn, squirrel, frog, apple, brown, green, red, blue, pink and introduce new words such as hedgehog, nuts, waterlily, goat, pig, pear.

📖7-10′ Activity 3: We read the book Apple Trouble by Ranghild Scamell and Michael Terry. As pre-reading activity, we discuss the cover and the illustration at the back, and as a post-reading activity we say what makes us laugh the most. We read a second time, this time trying to guess the sequence of the fruits and items stuck on little hedgehogs back.

🙋‍♀️5′ Activity 4: I put a paper hedgehog on the rug and have pupils put fruits on its back and take them out as well (Special thanks to my sister, who is a preschool educator and lends me her material. All my respect to educators who spend hours and money creating lovely, engaging material for young learners)

10′ Activity 5: We draw whatever we like the most from the story.

🪇5′ Activity 6: We sing Autumn Leaves are Falling Down while we pretend to be tree leaves🍃

⚗️2′ Activity 7: We look at the pinecones and try to deduct what happens when a pinecone is put in hot water and in cold water. I love how perceptive scientists and artists are pupils of 4 and 5 years old.