Do you know why?
What is the Autumn Equinox?
In the United States and the rest of the northern hemisphere, the first day of the autumn season is the day of the year when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving southward (on September 22nd or 23rd). This day is known as the Autumnal Equinox.
As the Earth travels around the Sun in its orbit, the north-south position of the Sun changes over the course of the year because of the changing orientation of the Earth's tilted rotation axes. The dates of maximum tilt of the Earth's equator correspond to the Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice, and the dates of zero tilt to the Vernal Equinox and Autumnal Equinox. (taken from http://www.calendar-updates.com/info/holidays/us/autumn.aspx).
So, as we are officially done with summer, and heading through autumn toward winter, here are some fun things to do (with your students or children) to celebrate!
- Use collected leaves to make prints by putting them under a piece of paper and rubbing over them with the side of a crayon or pencil.
- Paint faces on leaves! Use paint and leaves to make leaf prints.
- Make a leaf collage by cutting out leaf shapes from red, orange, yellow, and brown paper.
- Find out more about how the first day of Fall is when night and day are of equal length.
- Take a walk or drive and look at the changing leaves.
- Take a walk and collect fallen leaves.
- Use collected leaves and sort by color, size, shape, etc.
- Talk about the different seasons.
- Go on a hay ride.
- Make Home-Made Applesauce. (from http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/autumncrafts/l/blsept23rd.htm)
1 comment:
One thing that I always love doing in the fall is going out to the pumpkin patch and picking the perfect pumpkin to carve for Halloween. :)
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