Apple Unit {Expanded}

Check out our new and expanded “Apple” unit!  We’ve added a few new printables, which you can download. 

Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site!
Here are the printables included in this unit:

• A is for Apple
• Apple Parts
• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Spelling Page
• Spin & Graph
• Roll & Color- Apple Tree
• Count & Clip 
• Letter Match
• Writing Maze
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Size Sort
• “A” Apple Varieties Collage
• Seed Counting Mat (You’ll need our counting cards.)
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)  

Tot Pack
Looking for some ideas for a younger tot?  Check out our Apple Tot Pack. (Tot Packs inspired by 1+1+1=1.) Here are the printables included in this pack:

• Apple Match
• Apple Shape Puzzles 
• How Many Seeds?
• Apple Colors (mini book)
• Size Sequencing
• Apple Picture Puzzle

 

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Looking for more ideas?

• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Apple Learning Center Ideas
• Apple Observations 
• Recommended Books
• In the Kitchen- Apples
• Tots Around Town- Apple Pickin'
• Family Theme Night - Apples 

There are also more  ideas, units, printables and crafts available on this theme.  Check out our Pinterest Board for some of our favorites!
We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

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Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Apple Science

The boy and I did another observation activity.  This time we observed APPLES.  

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Unfortunately, we ran out of printer ink and I was unable to print it!  I was bummed.  So, we had to improvise.  I let him touch my computer screen to point out his answer.

Materials:

• an apple 
• observation sheet
• crayons or markers

Directions:

• Use the worksheet to guide your observations. 

 

• You can decide ahead of time if you want them to listen to the apple as they take a bite out of it or just listen to it as a whole.  We decided to use the “crunch” factor.

 

• If your kiddo doesn’t understand the term sweet, sour or salty.  Pull out the salt by all means and have them taste it. Have them drink a little water to clean their palate. Then ask them to taste the apple. Do they taste the same? 

 

Special Note: When observing the texture I tried to use clip art that your child could relate to and that would be around everyone’s house.  I used a mirror to represent smooth and a cheese grater to represent rough.  So, if you child doesn’t know the term smooth have him/her touch a mirror and say, “This is smooth.”  Do the same with the cheese grater. Then have him/her compare what they are observing to both objects.  You can then ask your child, “Is your ______ smooth like the mirror or rough/bumpy like the cheese grater?”

If you have more than one apple variety you can have a taste test and graph the results.

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And that was it.  As I mentioned before the boy loves observation sheets, but he likes them even better when he actually gets to eat something when he does it!

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Psalms 17:8-Memory Verse Helps

Here are some extras to help your kiddos memorize this weeks verse, Psalms 17:8. 
You can download all of the printables, including the devotional here.  If you would like to download individual files, click on the image below. 
Memory Verse Card: Use this card daily during your calendar time to work on memorization. 

Memory Verse Puzzle and Cutting Practice:  This puzzle fits together to form this weeks memory verse. 

Memory Verse Color Order and Cutting Practice: Using color order arrange the verse.

Memory Verse Writing Practice: With this you can practice parts of the whole verse, or just work on starting a single letter.    
  
    
You may also re-visit this verses devotional from last year.  We hope you enjoy them!

Kids in the Kitchen-Apples!

This week E and I got into the kitchen to make some tasty apple snacks!  E loves to help me in the kitchen, so I love when we can make snacks that I don’t involve cooking, and neither of these do! 

First we made Squirmy Wormy Apples! 

You will need:

• An Apple
• Peanut Butter
• Gummy Worms (veto your kids and skip the neon sour worms!)

Directions: Pierce an apple with a straw or a skewer (we used a blunt chopstick).  Cut the apple in half and dig out the seeds and core. 

Fill in the center of the apple with the peanut butter.  Add a gummy worm and put the two halves back together.  How simple is that?!
 

We made this snack, too. It is a variation on these Apple Cartwheels that I found. 
I would have loved to try this version, but I didn’t have all of the ingredients, so I used what I had, which was….

• An Apple
• Peanut Butter
• Walnuts
• A Hershey Kiss (yes, one lonely Hershey Kiss from the depths of my pantry)

Directions: Core the apple and cut it into discs.  Spoon peanut butter into the core opening.  Using a cheese grater, grate the Hershey kiss over the apple.  Sprinkle with some walnut pieces. 

This was seriously good. I have no doubt that I will make this again, and it was SUPER easy.  E and I both enjoyed our snacks, so let us know if you make them too! 

Apple Centers

This week we are expanding our Apple theme printables.

To get you started, I’ve found some fabulous resources that can be use in independent centers or even as additional supplements to our printables.

Art

If you’ve never visited Making Learning Fun then you are truly missing out on a rich source of free printables.  You will find tons of stuff on there, so go check it out!  One thing that I came across this summer was the Easel Art Pages. I love how they give visual step by step instructions on how to paint different things!  And wouldn’t you know…there is an apple one!! Just perfect for our unit!

Easy Easel Art: Apple

Writing

I found a few activities from Busy Bee Kids Printables that I plan to incorporate into a writing center.   Basically, my son will be using our Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center with these printables, which will allow these pages to be used over and over again without having to laminate them.

Number Maze	Apple Dot-to-Dot
Apple Maze	A is for Apple

If you don’t have a Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center, then I would suggest laminating them.

Fine Motor

My Montessori Journey has wonderful apple based activities that will help your child work on their fine motor skills. 

Apple Transfer with Tweezers

Little Apple Art Project

Hope these ideas are helpful.

Tots in Action-Apples

Here is our week!  These pics give you an idea of what you can expect when you do these activities with your tot.  Below is also our grab and gather list for the unit. 

Apples

This unit has been expanded. So, make sure and check out the additional printables here.

 

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Here is what we’ve been doing this week. Let us know what you think.  We hope by providing these materials to you free of charge, it will make your life easier! 

Lesson Plan: The lesson plan includes all the lessons for the week, as well as optional ideas. Items following the lesson plan are just the printables or links to websites we used to teach these plans.  (Please note: On top of our lesson plan we are reading books daily that relate to our theme.)

Memory Verse: This memory card is for daily use during our calendar time.  You can learn more about calendar time at 1+1+1=1 or Homeschool Creations.  Our weekly devotional is an object lesson that will help your child apply the meaning of the verse to them.

Day 1:
A is for Apples- Teaches your child how letters are linked to sounds to form letter-sound correspondence.

Roll & Color: Apple Tree-  This activity will help your child begin to read and count whole numbers 1-10.

Parts of an Apple- Create a felt apple to teach the parts of an apple.

Day 2:
Apple Letter Match- Have your child match the capital letter to the lowercase letter to reinforce letter recognition.

 

Count & Match: Apples- This activity will help your child begin to read, count and model whole numbers 1-10.

Day 3:
Build a Letter A- Teaches your child how letters are constructed by building them in a fun way.  All you need to do is download this printable created by Tired Need Sleep to create your own.  We downloaded the template and cut our pieces out of foam sheets so we could use them again.  We'd love to include an image, but it won't load for us!


Measure the Apple Trees- This activity will help your child gain experience in measurement by using a non-standard measuring tool.

The Seasons of an Apple Tree- Using the templates provided on Making Learning Fun, teach your child about how an apple tree changes in each season.

 

We hope you enjoy these lesson plans and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.  

Questions?  Post questions or comments on our Facebook Page.  You may have the same question as someone else.  If you don’t have a Facebook account, feel free to email us.

Tots Around Town: Apple Picking

For our apple unit we went apple picking! We took E and Lil’ Man and visited a local apple orchard.

 

We took a wagon ride out to the orchard and asked our driver for some tips on apple picking! 

           

The first apples we picked were Golden Delicious Apples.  We were told to look for apples that were more yellow than green.  We told the kiddos this, but they just wanted to keep picking!

We decided to go to a couple more sections of the orchard so the tots could keep picking!

We got Jonagold apples, which should be a mix of red and green, and Winesap, which should be deep red when ripe.

We kept our apples and later we did a taste test to pick which one we liked the best.  E’s favorite was the Golden Delicious, and I preferred (or became addicted, its all about perspective) to the Jonagold.

You can check for apple orchards in your state and area here.  We recommend calling ahead and checking the “picking conditions”. 

This is a GREAT field trip for the family.  Let us know if you go apple picking!