Little Green Apple Lesson Plan

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will follow how apples get from orchards to stores.

 

Social Studies Focus:

production, distribution, and consumption

 

Science Focus:

plants

 

Page 4 Skill:

graphing

 

Vocabulary:

apple picker, basket, buy, follow, horse, ladder, orchard, trees, truck

 

CCSS:

RI.K.1, RF.K.1.D, SL.K.2

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  • Begin by watching our video Apples!
  • Afterward, ask children to share what kind of apple foods they like to eat, such as applesauce, apple pie, or apple cider donuts.
  • Read the issue together.
  • Afterward, have kids explain in their own words how an apple gets from a farm to the store.
  • Be sure to move to our apple Dance Break!
  • Use the Show What You Know printable as a follow-up activity. You can project it and discuss the questions together, or send it home for kids to work on with families.
  • Practice sorting apples by color, by size, or by number of seeds with our Apple Sort game.
  • Children can use letter recognition to reveal a cute apple-themed picture with our Color by Letter skill sheet.
Completed apple core made out of a paper plate

Materials: paper plates, tape, safety scissors, crayons

  • Give each child a paper plate. Help children cut a semicircle out of each side.
  • Use crayons to color the plate rims red, yellow, or green. Kids can also draw seeds in the middle using a black  crayon. For the leaf, use a green crayon to color one of the semicircles you cut out. Attach it with tape to the top of the apple core.
  • At school, create a bulletin board displaying children’s work beneath this poem:

One bite, two bites, three bites, four—

All that’s left is my apple core!

  • At home, copy the poem on paper and attach it to the apple core!