🍎 Apples 🍏
I hope you enjoy the Apples Unit Study Lesson Plan, here are some highlights:
Apple Life Cycle STEM Craft
Fruit Market Dramatic Play
Apple CVC Word Matching
Apples to Apples Junior
Apple Fractions
Apple Math - Apple Addition Wheels, Apple Race Dice Game
Parts of an Apple
The Life of Johnny Appleseed
Apple Stamping
Ten Apples Up On Top Sensory Play
Bobbing For Apples
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Enjoy! Tiff
🍎 Apples 🍏
Apple Life Cycle STEM Craft
We love STEM + Craft activities! Teach the life cycle of an apple with this fun printable book. Then practice what you learned by putting the stages of the apple tree in the correct sequence in this folding STEM Craft.
Fruit Market Dramatic Play
Everything you need to make your own Fruit Stand! Work on math and ELA concepts while setting up and playing store. As the shop owner you can, decorate your shop, label all the fruits, set prices, and take orders. Customers create their own grocery list, shop for fruit and pay with their $1 fruit coins.
English Language Arts
Apple CVC Word Matching
Make your ELA time amazing with these CVC apples! Perfect for an apple unit literacy center! Just cut and match the apples. Includes placemats per vowel to practice sorting words by short vowel sounds.
CVC Tri-Blocks Word Tub
This is a great tool for teaching CVC words and Word Families. Building toys are always a hit with my girls. We took turns building words and then tried switching out the first or last letter to build new words!
Apples to Apples Junior
I love gameschooling! Play Apples to Apples and learn new vocabulary, practice reading new words and have a laugh. This is a great way to encourage young readers to challenge themselves with new words. The junior version is made for kids 9+, but my 6 year old and I play all the time.
Reading Lessons
There are only two resources I like to make sure I include on each week’s lesson plan, Prodigies Music (below) and Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. This book has thousands of 5 star reviews on Amazon for a reason. It’s an effective, no-prep way to teach reading. We are 30 or so lessons in and I can already see a difference, my daughter actually sounds out the words instead of guessing.
The lessons are short (15-20min), easy to grasp and sequential. The entire lesson is scripted and color coded so it’s fool proof, just read the words in pink. It also is designed for kids that don’t know their alphabet or letter sounds yet, so you can start right away. Their claim is that after completing all 100 lessons your child will be able to read at a 2nd grade level!
Math - Addition Focus
Apple Fractions
Cut apples are the perfect pictorial example when teaching fractions. I wrote fractions and fraction words on index cards and then demonstrated each fraction by cutting apples. Then I had my daughter match the apples to the cards to see if she understood the concept. She loved it!
If you want a more permanent manipulative, Learning Resources makes these awesome magnetic apples that do the same thing!
Supplies: apples, index cards, marker and kitchen knife
Apple Math Pack
This Apple Math Pack will have your kiddos begging to have Math time! It worked for me. The day I printed these, my daughter wanted the Math lesson moved up to the first activity of the day!
Perfect for fall themed lesson plans, this Apple Math Pack provides weeks of worksheets and activities that work on their math operation skills progressively.
Includes: Ten Frames With Apples, Ten Frames With Apples Clip Cards, Blank Ten Frames. Apples Up On Top Game (2 Game Boards and Printable Dice), Apple Addition Clip Cards, Apple Tree Play-Doh Mat, Apple Addition Wheels (1-10, add numbers 0-5), Addition to 10 Ten Frames
Addition Chart
I was excited to find this Rainbow Addition Chart for our morning binder. The addition chart has been a great way to demonstrate counting relationships when adding numbers and practice math facts.
It seems to be clicking with my daughter that numbers have relationships to each other. They even have blank and partially blank versions you can fill in for practice.
Science - Parts of an Apple
Parts of an Apple STEM Craft
By: Prince Padania
Learn the parts of an apple with this fun and easy low-prep craft. Either print the pieces on colored paper or on b&w and have the students color. Practice handwriting skills while writing the parts of the apple and work on following step by step instructions for the assembly.
Social Studies
The Life of Johnny Appleseed
Study the life of John Chapman and how he came to be known as Johnny Appleseed. Learn about where he traveled and how he spread apples throughout the American wilderness.
We used this awesome Biography Report outline to help us learn about this facinating American legend.
Art and Music
Apple Stamping
I love apple crafts. This craft was super cute and it only took 5 minutes to prep and 20 minutes to implement.
Gather your supplies (see below), and set up plates for each color of paint you will use. I cut a basket shape out of construction paper ahead of time. You can even make a weaved version out of strips of construction paper..
Then dip the apples in the paint and stamp on your basket. We took turns stamping to keep the mess low. We let our apples dry, then we glued on the seeds (black beans) and stems (twine).
Supplies needed: Apples (cut in half and padded dry), paint, construction paper, paper plates for paint, black beans for seeds, twine and glue.
Prodigies Music
The only downside to Prodigies Music, is that I constantly have “Sweet Beets, we’ve got some…” stuck in my head! We played Sweet Beets and Melon a lot this week!
It is simply an incredible curriculum for teaching music. Ages 2-5 is the critical time to develop a life-long sense of pitch. Their curriculum is designed to develop a sense of pitch with easy to use desk bells that don’t require any tuning. They also teach piano, recorder and ukulele. Their subscription includes everything you can think of 450+ videos, worksheets, free bell mats, sheet music all color coded so it’s super easy to learn. If you don’t have an instrument they have a bunch of rhythm focused content that doesn’t require an instrument.
They have a free trial and discounts for annual memberships! Great deal! You can even check out some of their videos for free on YouTube.
Sensory Bins
Apple Color Sorting - Mini Sensory Tray
Fun mini sensory tray for color sorting. Use the tongs or scoopers to sort the apples by color, just drop them in the corresponding tree.
The mini apples turned out so cute and took less than 20 minutes to make. I just hot glued a small piece of brown pipe cleaner and a small piece of green felt to mini pompoms and viola, mini apples. I glued the toilet paper rolls to the felt, but didn’t glue the felt. This way the trees stayed upright, but you could easily empty them.
Supplies used: green felt, brown pipe cleaners, mini pompoms, toilet paper rolls, bamboo tongs, sensory scoopers, and a brown marker.
Ten Apples Up On Top - Sensory Bin
I love to create sensory bins based on books, so I was really excited about this concept.
This was a super easy bin to pull together and we had a ton of fun with it. We used it as a sort of tactile storyboard and acted out stacking the apples as we read the book!
Get the free printables for this sensory bin.
Filler: Black Beans
Recommended Supplies: Ten Apples Up On Top, artificial apples (if you prefer you can just use the printable apples), fall leaves, wooden scoops.
Physical Education
Bobbing For Apples
This classic fall party game is the perfect outdoor activity for Apple Week. Just fill a small pool or metal tub with water and add apples. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float. Compete to see who can pick up an apple with chopsticks or spoons (or you can use your teeth).
Supplies: small pool or large metal tub, apples, chopsticks or spoons
Book List
Don’t have the budget or space to get more books? The library has been pretty great for us so far, but they are sometimes out of the more popular books. One place that you can always count on to find great books is Epic Books! Try Epic Basic for FREE! You can find awesome read to me books for free, Unlimited plan includes access to 40,000+ books!
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