Year 1 Seasonal changes: autumn and winter worksheet

“Signs of Autumn” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 science unit “Seasonal changes: autumn and winter”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 5 to 9 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Signs of Autumn

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Science · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can spot signs of autumn and count what we see.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which colour is a leaf on a healthy tree in summer? Circle it.
greenredblue
2.
How many more bananas than pears were picked?
3.
Which pet did the most children in the class have? Write it.
catdogfish

B Watch me, then you4 min

Mia and her grown-up walk in the park. They count the signs of autumn they spot. Mia records each one with a tally.

A park path with trees, orange and brown leaves on the grass, and a few conkers on the ground

Watch me

We counted 3 conkers, 5 orange leaves and 2 pine cones.

5 is the biggest number, so orange leaves were spotted the most.

Mia observed more orange leaves than anything else.

Now you

1.
Ali counted 2 red leaves and 7 brown leaves. Which leaves did he count most? Write it.
red leavesbrown leaves

C Your turn6 min

Read each tally. Answer one question at a time.

1.
How many orange leaves were counted?
2.
How many more orange leaves than conkers were counted?
3.
Which sign was counted more, conkers or orange leaves? Write it.
conkersorange leaves
4.
How many signs were counted altogether?

Say it out loud: Which sign did you count most? How did the tally show it?

D Spot the mistake3 min

An oak tree with brown leaves and a green pine tree on a plain background.

Kit says: “All trees lose their leaves in autumn, even pine trees.”

1.
What is really true about the pine tree? Circle it.
It keeps its leaves all yearIt loses all its leaves in autumn

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Guess which sign you would spot most on an autumn walk. Explain your guess.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Signs of Autumn · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. green

2. 3

3. fish

B

1. brown leaves your child may have picked the first card. Ask which tally row has the most marks.

C

1. 6

2. 4 your child added 6 and 2 to get 8. Taking away fits here: how many more is 6 than 2?

3. conkers

4. 16 your child added only 3 and 8 to get 11 and missed the pine cones. Add all three rows: 3 + 8 + 5.

D

1. It keeps its leaves all year your child may think all trees are the same. Pine trees are evergreen, so they stay green. Ask what the needles look like in the picture.

E

1. Look for: A named sign from the tally with a reason, such as seeing lots of them before.

Words to use

Say“What did you observe? How did you count it? Which sign did you see most?”

Instead of“Tell them the signs of autumn so they do not need to look.”

After the sheet

Take a walk outside and count three signs of autumn in a tally on the back of an envelope. Compare your tally with your child's.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Weather in Autumn(with a plan)
Spotting winter signs(with a plan)
Weather in Winter(with a plan)
Short winter days(with a plan)

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