Apple Poetry:
Write the following poem on lined chart paper (or print it out and enlarge it on a postermaker). Once you have it enlarged, laminate it and use vis-a-vis markers to fill in the blanks with descriptive words. I read this each morning for 2-3 days. Each day, we change the descriptive words. I really model how to find the words on the bubble map to help with spelling. Finally, at the end of the week, I use the blackline master and the students create their own. Students can illustrate it and mount it on colored construction paper.
Apples
____________apples
____________apples
Apples on the tree.
____________apples
____________apples
Pick an apple
Just for me
Blackline Master Poem
I print out the apple tree blackline master. Students color it and cut it out. Then, they glue it onto pretty blue construction paper and dip their pinky finger into a red ink pad to make apple prints all over the bushy part of the tree. Very cute!
Blackline Apple Tree
I write the following book on sentence strips. Again, we read it each day. I have an illustrated picture of each sentence and we set it next to the correct sentence as we read it. When the students make their own book, they are much more successful at cutting and glueing the correct picture onto the correct page because they have practiced it (very important at this early point in the year). I will add the blackline master for this book soon.
This is Apple happy.
This is Apple sad.
Now you see him sleepy.
Now you see him mad.
This is apple in pieces small.
But in a pie he's best of all!
Blackline Master
Print out the blackline master of the numbered apple book. Each page increases in quantity (ex: My apple has one seed. My apple
has 2 seeds, etc., etc.). Students color apple and glue on the correct number of seeds onto each page. Have students keep these in their desk and read daily for a week or so to practice the high frequency words (my, has, number words). Students may then take them home.
Apple Addition
Apple Subtraction
Apple Seed Quantities
Apple Seeds Book
How Do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons
The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall, Shari Halpern
Apples by Gail Gibbons
Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss
Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh