
An Apple a Day Student-Created Bulletin Board Activity Students learn about apples, then help create a bulletin board for the classroom.Materials: Book: Benny’s Pennies Flannel board Flannel board pieces Posterboard Pennies (real or cutouts) Lesson Plan: During large group, read the story, Benny’s Pennies. Objectives: Incorporates rhymes, prediction, math, and recall. Benny’s Pennies Book Activity Large group lesson using the story Benny’s Pennies.
Objectives: The students will: use apple theme to learn about math (or Johnny Appleseed theme) practice rote counting Materials: Large tree made out of art paper or store bought one.
Apples and Counting Lesson Using the apple theme to learn how to count. Objectives: To introduce the students to the idea that apples grow on trees and that these apple trees change as the seasons. Apples and Seasons Use the apple tree, and The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons to teach seasonal changes. Penney scissors glue large pieces of construction paper of different colors Lesson Plan: Find large numbers in the catalogs. Materials: catalogs or magazines, such as Sears, Ltd and J.C. Class Number Book Students will practice counting to ten and one to one association. These two books have been a favorite read for the kids all year. Each book counted from 1-10, or 1-11 – “Tiarra” has 1 apple up on top, “Emily” has 2 apples up on top, “Cindy” has 3 apples up on top… and so on. The kids filled in the blanks with their name and the number of apples.
Since the cutouts were 2-sided, some chose to make a pattern.
We used apple shaped calendar cutouts… the kind with green on one side and red on the other.
The kids then pasted their apples on top of their heads. To determine how many apples each student would have on top, I had them draw numbers, then distributed apples to each table so children could count out the number of apples they would need. I pasted the sentence “_ has _ apples up on top.” and a photocopied picture of each student on the bottom of each page. The girls’ book had 11 pages, since I had 11 girls, and the boys’ book had 10 pages, since I had 10 boys. To make the pages, I cut 11 x 17 tagboard in half (the long way). Make class books as a follow-up activity to this great Dr. Don’t Miss: Apple Printables – Apple Theme – Dr.