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More Quick and Easy Apple Activities Part II

1-2-3 Do Some Apple-icious Activities With Me!

lcov ove apples poster As I stated in the article after this, I wanted to finish up with all of the apple requests I've had this month, and move on to some other fall theme, so I put lots of apple FREEBIES in the blog today, that I hope you and your students will enjoy. Click on the "We Love Studying About Apples!" to grab your free poster.

apple games, apple activities, apple lessons, comparing apples with pumpkins, apple venn diagram, venn diagrams, alphabet activities, alphabet games, apple games, apple centers, apple worksheets, apple table top lessons, apple poster, free posters for school, Part of our morning, was spent doing "table top" activities, where students worked independently on various standards and skills.

With this in mind, I created the Caramel Apple Letter Find. Students find the capital letter A's and color them red; they color the lowercase a's yellow, and any Cc (for caramel) letter green. Click on the link to view/download it.

apple games, apple activities, apple lessons, comparing apples with pumpkins, apple venn diagram, venn diagrams, alphabet activities, alphabet games, apple games, apple centers, apple worksheets, apple table top lessons, apple poster, free posters for school, I'd also reinforce letter and number recognition, by playing "I Spy" games. Teacher starts out by calling out a letter/number.

Students find it, and either trace or color the apple, and then raise their hand. Teacher then calls on a quiet student to choose the next letter/numbered apple to find. Click on the link to view/print "I Spy a Letter!" apple game.

Besides "I Spy" my students enjoyed playing dic apple games, apple activities, apple lessons, comparing apples with pumpkins, apple venn diagram, venn diagrams, alphabet activities, alphabet games, apple games, apple centers, apple worksheets, apple table top lessons, adjective activities, apple writing prompts, describing apples activities, graphic organizers,apple poster, free posters for school, e games. This helps with counting and number recognition, and simple addition for older students.

Click on the link to view/print the Apples On A Roll dice game.

apple games, apple activities, apple lessons, comparing apples with pumpkins, apple venn diagram, venn diagrams, alphabet activities, alphabet games, apple games, apple centers, apple worksheets, apple table top lessons, apple poster, free posters for school, To help increase my students' vocabulary, I always had themed words to add to our word wall.

I encouraged my first graders to refer to the wall when they'd write. Understanding, and using adjectives, is also very important to build good writing skills.

I designed Apple Adjectives to help with that. There's a black and white version for students to fill in, as well as a completed one in color, to use as an example or anchor chart. I found that graphic organizers were extremely helpful for prewriting, so I designed an apple one, so students could write in descriptive words. Click on the link to view/download the Apple Adjective packet.

apple games, apple activities, apple lessons, comparing apples with pumpkins, apple venn diagram, venn diagrams, alphabet activities, alphabet games, apple games, apple centers, apple worksheets, apple table top lessons, apple poster, free posters for school, Finally, a Venn diagram is extremely useful, in helping students grasp the concept of comparison and contrast. Once there's understanding and a framework, students will write better.

Because we study pumpkins shortly after our apple unit, I thought it would be especially helpful to compare a pumpkin to an apple, using a Venn diagram. Click on the link to view/download the Apple-Pumpkin Venn Diagram.

apple games, apple activities, apple lessons, comparing apples with pumpkins, apple venn diagram, venn diagrams, alphabet activities, alphabet games, apple games, apple centers, apple worksheets, adjective activities, apple videos, apple table top lessons, apple poster, free posters for school, If you're looking for some short, but informative YouTube videos on Apples, I spent the better part of a morning watching quite a few. Here are my favorites: The Life Cycle Of An Apple is put to music in this 2-minute catchy video.

The familiar, 5 Little Apples story-song, is "pumped up" with a rap beat your kiddo's will enjoy, (1:47 minutes.) as well as the "I Love Apples" fact-rap. (2:04 minutes.)

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More Quick and Easy Apple "Craftivities"

1-2-3 Get To The "Common Core" With Me!

apple activities, apple crats, apple arts and crafts, apple booklet, common core apples, shape activities, apple centers, apple patterning, patterning activities, apple games, Daily 5 for September Trying to fit Common Core into your already too-much-to-cover day, is often difficult, so I try to design activities that cover several standards, that can be set up as independent centers, games and hands-on craftivities, that make learning interesting and fun, but not a lot of work for the teacher. Many can be used to whole-group assess various things, which is a real time saver. I use popular themes, like apples, so they fit nicely into a particular month's activities.

September is flying by and I want to finish up with apple requests, so I've packed lots of FREEBIES in this blog article. I hope you and your kiddo's really enjoy them!

apple activities, apple crats, apple arts and crafts, apple booklet, common core apples, shape activities, apple centers, apple patterning, patterning activities, apple games, Daily 5 for September Reinforcing colors, color words + a bit of rhyming, can be accomplished by making a Twist and Read Apple. I do this as a whole-group, so I can work on listening and following directions, which is one of our Y5 report card standards. You can make 2 separate booklets, or have children glue them back-to-back to make a "flip-over" apple booklet as well. Click on the link above to view/download it.

apple activities, apple crats, apple arts and crafts, apple math activities, skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's, apple booklet, common core apples, shape activities, apple centers, apple patterning, patterning activities, apple games, Daily 5 for September Your kiddo's will also enjoy making Willie, in the Wormy Apple "craftivity," which helps with counting and number recognition, + skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's, as children pull their worm through the slit. This apple manipulative is great for "I Spy" (a number) to see who's "got it" and who still needs help. Click on the link to view/download it.

apple activities, apple crats, apple arts and crafts, apple math activities, skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's, apple booklet, common core apples, shape activities, apple centers, apple patterning, patterning activities, apple games, Daily 5 for September Cover shapes, including the crazy hexagon, with this Apple Shape Matching Game. You can also use this as an assessment tool. I've labeled the shapes, to reinforce shape-to-shape word recognition. Click on the link to view/download it.

apple activities, apple crats, apple arts and crafts, apple math activities, skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's, apple booklet, common core apples, shape activities, apple centers, apple patterning, patterning activities, apple games, Daily 5 for September Being able to recognize a pattern, is one of our Y5 report card standards, as well as Common Core for PreK. Since quite a few kiddo's come to kindergarten, without preschool experience, I think it's extremely important to make time to learn about patterns, as it truly helps improve understanding, with lots of other Common Core math. Click on the link to view/download the Apple Patterning game.

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As you can see by the photographs, I incorporate the 3 colors of apples, to reinforce the idea that apples aren't just red, which many little ones think.

apple activities, apple crafts, apple arts and crafts, apple math activities, skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's, apple booklet, common core apples, shape activities, apple centers, apple patterning, patterning activities, apple games, life cycle of an apple, apple life cycle activities,Daily 5 for September Finally, it's often difficult to make time for science. Whenever I could, I'd tried to dream up a hands-on, independent center, my students would enjoy, that covered some basic science facts, about whatever seasonal theme we were studying. Reading several non-fiction apple books was a great introduction to this. Click on the link to view/download a bibliography of my favorite apple stories.

The Life Cycle of an Apple - dangler, is relatively simple, yet looks awesome when completed, and terrific hanging from the ceiling in the hallway. Younger students can make these FLAT, while older students can really add pizzazz by making them 3D. Click on the link to view/download it.

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Investigating Apples

1-2-3 Come Measure Apples With Me!

Help your students learn about measurement, with this quick, easy and fun booklet. Students measure height, weight, width and circumference of their apple. They trace and write vocabulary-building words, predict, answer questions, + collect and analyze data. Investigating apples via this booklet, will help with Common Core State Standards: K.MD.1a, K.MD.2, 1.MD.1, and 1.MD.2.

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Ask for a bag of apples to be donated to the class, or have each child bring 1 or 2 in. (Make sure to buy a few extras yourself, for those children whose parents forgot.) Allow a few moments for children to really examine their apple by touching it, smelling it, describing their apple to a partner etc.

To make this do-able for non or beginning readers, work on the booklet as a whole group. Read the 1st page aloud and model what you want your students to do, then have children do that portion of their investigation. If you are teaching pre k you might want to do just 1 booklet as a class. Older students can work on this independently. Allow enough time so children don't feel rushed, and so everyone gets a turn using the scale. To expedite things, you may want to borrow several other scales from fellow teachers for that part of your day. To keep interest, with little ones, and because of time, you can also work on just one or two pages a day.

When your booklet is completed, read it aloud once more, and have children share their results as you read that page. Reinforce vocabulary by reviewing the measurement tools and words, and asking students: "What is a scale? What is it used for?" "What is height? How can you measure it?" etc.

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Life Cycle Of An Apple Activities

1-2-3 Come Make The Life Cycle Of An Apple With Me!

There are 3 Life Cycle of an Apple craftivities in this packet. Children can choose to glue the apple's life cycle on an apple, apple tree, or apple pie.

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There are also 2 different apple life cycle templates to choose from. One apple life cycle is completed by using real photographs of the various stages and gluing them to the template.

(See tree & pie photo.) The other apple life cycle, is made by coloring, cutting and gluing the pictures of each phase. (See apple photo.)

Completed projects look wonderful dangling from the ceiling. The apple pie life cycle makes a sweet bulletin board. I spray the pie slice with apple spice fragrance for that finishing touch.

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Studying Fractions Using Apples

1-2-3 Come Spy Some Apple Fractions With Me

kids eating an apple There's nothing like food to grab a child's attention, so I suggest showing children a variety of apples, explaining that they are not only red, which many of them think, but yellow and green as well.

Display an uncut apple and explain that it is a WHOLE apple, then cut the apple down the middle and explain that now the apple is cut in half, and that 2 halves make a whole. Show this by putting the two pieces back together.

Ask children if any one knows how many pieces you'll have, if you cut the apple in quarters, then show them, by cutting the apple in half and then in half again. Count the 4 pieces; review that one of the 4 pieces of an apple is called a quarter or 1 fourth. Rubberband the 4 pieces together, to show that 4 pieces equal a whole apple. Ask your students to choose a partner and explain what they have just learned to each other.

Children choose a color and fold it in half horizontally. This is another opportunity to review the word half with them, as well as what horizontal means. Students cut the top "doors" so that they will "flip up." Remind students to open their paper, so they are less likely to cut the bottom one at the same time they are slitting the top.

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Included in this packet, is also a trace and write apple fraction booklet, so that the math vocabulary is reinforced in yet another way. This is a great activity for your Daily 5 Word Work. There are matching apple fraction pocket or word wall word cards as well. Click on the link to view/download the Apple Fraction Packet.

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Because my Y5's especially enjoyed "craftivities" (great for fine motor skill practice) I often set up a more "artsy" center, for students who completed their table top lesson.

These independent centers were highly motivating for students to get down to business and complete their work, so they could make "something special." To avoid hurt feelings, children who ran out of time, got to collect the "pieces" and materials for the project to take home.

To make one, simply run off the templates on red, lime green and yellow construction paper. Students cut and collate their apple so that the 1/4 is on the top, followed by the half and then the whole apple. Staple the corner and review. I've included a stem and leaf template to make the fraction sections look like an apple. Pre-cut these for students to glue to the top-back of their apple.

Students can play indepently, or in a group of 2 or 3. Whatever apple they land on, they mark an x under the matching fraction apple on their graph. When the timer rings, students total up their columns and circle which apple they have spun the most.

I've included a whole class graph as well, so you can review, by charting everyone's answers. Click on the link to view/download the Apple Fraction Action game.

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