More Apple Activities

Here are some more of the apple activities we did: 

We ready a variety of books about apples and Johnny Appleseed. My favorite Johnny Appleseed book is shown below. It is very cute and aimed at younger students. 

After reading the story, we made Johnny Appleseed hats! Adorable! Students wrote their names on the apples, but I blurred it out in this photo. 

Students followed pictorial directions to make "Apple Tree" snacks (found at Making Learning Fun). I ran out of time when I was passing out M&Ms so yes, we had some apples that were not the color of apples, hence the blue "apple." They used a round cracker in the recipe, but I decided to use what I already had instead of making another trip to the store. Making Learning Fun also had a cute recipe called "Apple Smiles." It used apple slices, peanut butter, and mini marshmallows. I didn't try that one because of the peanut butter, but I think I might substitute it for caramel next year. I thought about it too late. Here is how out apple trees turned out: 

My parents were so kind to bring all of these delicious apples! We used them for activities throughout the week including counting, sorting, and making applesauce!!! I was going to take pictures of the final product, but I forgot. =( I had a few students who were not fans of applesauce, but the rest loved it!

Apple Funny

This week in shared reading we read the book, Apple Farmer Annie:

It is about an apple farmer. She picks apples, make various apple products, and sells them at the market.

Next week is my last week on apples. I sent home a note for students to bring an apple or two so we can use them for fun activities. 

As I handed out folders, I told my students what it said. One of my sweet friends responded in a concerned voice, "but I don't have an apple farm." 

Haha, I love kinder comments!

September Sight Word Mat

Here is our September sight word placemat. It goes along with our apple theme!

Apple Patterns

We are starting patterns this week. We kept it simple and went with the AB pattern first. Here is an apple pattern one of my kids made:

The next day we did an ABC pattern.

I modeled making the patterns before the kids made theirs. Most of them did pretty well with both patterns.

Apple Pack

Apple Theme - yes please!

I love this time of the year. I plan to spend 2-3 weeks on this theme because there is a ton of fun things to do with apples! I will try to post about some of the activities we do. Hopefully I'll remember to take pictures!

I created an apple pack. I tried to include cut and paste activities because we are still doing beginning of the year testing and cut and paste activities seem to take students a little longer to complete. Maybe I can squeeze a little testing in while they do these activities. Here is an image of some of the pages (I forgot to include the one on the right so I added it, too):

 

 Here is what the pack includes:

1. Lowercase and Uppercase Letter Sort (Cut and Paste, 1 page)

2. Letter and Number Sort (Cut and Paste, 1 page)

3. Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Match (Cut and Paste, 3 pages)

4. Number to Dots Match (Cut and Paste, 1 page)

5. Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Match (Draw Line to Match, 5 pages)

6. Tracing Practice (1 page)

7. Cutting Practice (1 page) 

Click here to get the Apple Pack! Enjoy!