apple round-up!

Whew! We had a fun week learning with and about apples. I made a collage of all of our apple activities that we have done this year and last year. If you see something you like, you can find all of these activities by clicking on the apples tag.

apple tree sequencing

I got this cute apple tree sequencing activity from, yep you guessed it ~ The First Grade Parade!

fact families

I came up with this idea today during math for the girls to have more practice with writing fact families.

how to bake an apple pie

Yesterday, we read The Biggest Apple Ever. It's a cute book about Clayton and Desmond who can't find the biggest apple to win the school contest, but decide to make the biggest apple pie ever to share with their class. For writing, I had the girls write and draw 'how to bake an apple pie'. I made a graphic organizer and divided the page into fourths. I labeled each section with transition words like - first, next, then and last.

apple stained glass craft

Last night, the kids made these adorable stained glass apples! I saw this idea on The First Grade Parade, too.

materials-
construction paper - red, green and brown
tissue paper - red, green and yellow
glue stick
laminator and sheets (or clear contact paper or wax paper)

directions-
1. fold the red construction paper in half and then cut an apple shape out of it
2. fold the apple in half (on the same fold line) and cut the center out - leaving only an outline
3. cut a stem and leaf out of the brown and green construction paper and glue on top of the apple 4. glue the apple outline onto the center of a laminating page or whatever you are using
5. cut the 3 colors of tissue paper into squares
6. glue the tissue paper into the center of the apple
7. seal the apple closed either with your laminator or an iron if you use contact paper - the contact paper will stick to itself

parts of an apple

Today, we labeled the parts of an apple. I used a die cut that I had and paper pieced the stem, leaf and flesh. The girls glued black beans for the seeds and they labeled the parts.

even/odd numbers

I downloaded this cute math mat activity from The First Grade Parade a couple of months ago and saved it up for our apple week. I've had the girls do this activity a couple of times already this week.

sight word shape writing

I came up this idea yesterday and tried it out with the girls. I think it looks kind of neat! I hope the girls enjoy it because they will have to do it again next week when we do our pumpkin theme! If you would like the apple and pumpkin shape for sight word work, just let me know and I'll be happy to share!

apple time!

Today we are starting our apple theme. I know it's a little late for apples, but I was waiting on some new apple books to come in from Scholastic. We started the day by describing an apple with adjectives. Then I peeled the apple and we used our 5 senses to also describe an apple.

Ethan got in on the action and I recorded his answers on his page for him!

The girls then used the graphic organizer to write about apples in their writing journals.

Be sure to check back, I have lots of other apple activities planned for this week!

felt apple beanbags

I think these felt apples turned out so adorable! They will be going into our fall sensory tub. I've also noticed that the girls like to take them to their kitchen and cook with them.

materials-

apple pattern
red, green and brown felt
small beans (I used black beans)
pins
scissors
mark-b-gone pen
red embroidery floss or sewing machine

directions-
1. cut out the apple pattern
2. trace pattern pieces onto felt with the mark-b-gone pen (trace the apple 2 times for each apple beanbag you want to make)
3. cut out felt shapes
4. sandwich the stem and leaf between two apples
5. pin all 4 pieces together
6. sew around the apples by hand or with your sewing machine
7. leave a small opening to fill the apples with beans
8. after filling the apples, stitch the opening closed

how 'bout them apples?

Our theme this week was all about apples! None of these ideas are really new, just some great gotta-dos with the kids. We also worked in our Abeka workbooks, too.


apple paper plate craft


apple pie scented play dough


life cycle of an apple


number sequencing 1-20


apple printing


apple of my eye


apple wheel (adjectives)


what's different?


color matching



apple books

*Be sure to check out some other great preschool ideas at the preschool corner!