More Apple Ideas

Counting Apples and Letter activities and crafts

Let's try saving seeds to use as counters.

• Use number cards or roll die to use the seed count.

•  Make number lotto (bingo) cards and use apple counters, bottle caps or rings to mark number shown or called for number recognition.

• Make apple picture cards to show the Sequence of eating an apple.

•  Apple puzzles

 Cut red, green and yellow apple shapes using die cuts.  Cut each into 3 pieces.  Put the pieces in a small zip bag for each student to assemble to make the apples whole again. It's not as easy as you may think for our little ones.  Great for part-to-whole practice.

Vowel sounds

• Do you like to eat apples and bananas?

Sing/chant:
"I like to eat, eat, eat, Apples and Bananas.
I like to eat, eat, eat, Apples and Bannanas
Change the vowel sound to long vowels:
I like tee eet, eet, eet, Epples and Benenes
I like tee eet, eet, eet, Epples and Benenes 
I like tie  ite, ite, ite, Ipples and Bininis
I like tie  ite, ite, ite, Ipples and Bininis 
I like to ote, ote, ote, Opples and Bononos
I like to  ote, ote, ote, Opples and Bononos
I like to  ute, ute, ute, Upplus and Bununus
I like to ute, ute, ute, Upplus and Bununus"

Ok, I'm not sure how to write those long vowel changes correctly.  Hope you got it.  Find Raffi in Concert CD and he sings it much better.

Letter Identification

• Where is Johnny Appleseed.  Letter identification.  This is a free TPT idea by Amy Lattin.   

Lay out letter cards and place a picture of Johnny Appleseed BEHIND one of the cards.  Students can guess which card Johnny is hiding behind by naming the letter.

Art

•  Apple prints are fun. 
  

• This is an oldie but a goodie easy apple craft using squares for leaves and apples.  (There's a name for this but I forgot what it's called at this moment.)

Hand-in-hand we grow!

 

P is for Pizza

Next week we will be teaching/reviewing the letter Pp with writing and initial sound practice.

"P", pizza,  /p/

I love to do Dr. Jean and Raffi's "I like to eat pepperoni pizza" song.
"I like to eat, eat, eat, pepperoni pizza.
I like to eat, eat, eat, pepperoni pizza."

I've made a pizza flip book to substitute the long vowel sound for each verse.  
Long a - "A lake tay ate, ate, ate paperana pazza..."
Long e -  "E leek te ete, ete, ete pepperene pezze..."
Long i -  "I like ti ite, ite, ite, pippirini pizzi..."
Long o -  "O loke toe ote, ote, ote, popporono pozzo..."
Long u -  "U luke tue ute, ute, ute, puppurunu puzzu..."
(I will also use this pizza book when we practice our long vowel sounds.)

These two pizza stories are fun to read and the kids LOVE them.  A boy named Pete becomes a pizza in Pete's a Pizza by William Steg.   I do explain to help some students' understand that the little boy is rolled, patted, baked as his dad pretends that he is the parts of the pizza.  
Pizza Pat by Rita Golden Gelman is a cumulative rhyming pizza version of "the house that Jack built" style.


For Math practice, I made felt pizza topping cutouts.  I took the idea from Dr. Jean and tweaked it for my supplies.  I had felt scraps rather than using fun foam.

Green rectangles- green pepper
Yellow triangles - cheese 
Brown ovals - sausage
Cream - mushrooms
Large Red circle - sauce
Gold circles painted with red sharpie - pepperoni
Black circles - olives

I didn't want to use red felt for my pepperoni pieces because my sauce is red.  I had gold scraps of felt and used a red Sharpie to color and some brown dots for my pepperoni pieces.  It had to look real to me.

I used a hole punch on a black strip of felt and cut out the olives.  I had to punch a piece of sandpaper to keep the punch cutting through. 
I also made oval sausages and rectangle green pepper pieces.  I wanted the kids to have to tell me the name of the shapes since rectangle and triangle are words they mix up. 

Recipe directions cards 

Cards will direct how each student will build their pizza and practice how to read a picture key.  I made cards in differentiated levels to practice and challenge students.


Following directions, coloring and counting 
Students can make a pizza with felt toppings then record on a card so another student must build by following their directions. 
Pizza puzzles

Students can design and color their favorite version of pizza.  Students can cut apart or teacher cut into pieces and then share their puzzle with classmates to put it back together.
Each year I seem to add and substitute activities.
I don't always do every activity, it depends on my group and their needs.

Hand-in-hand, we'll grow. 

I think I'm having pizza for dinner!