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!

 

A is for apples

It's time to get out all those teacher apple gifts.

Apple, apple, /a/, /a/, /a/          

Sounds like Fun CD from Discovery Toys has a wonderful song that calmly practices the initial sounds of the alphabet.
There is also a free Ipad app that you can use.  

Do you know the story of the "Little House with no doors"?  You must have an apple and sharp knife as you tell the story.
Once upon a time there was a little boy who grew tired of all his toys and games.  He asked his mother, "What shall I do?
  "You shall go on a journey and find a little red house with no windows or doors and a star inside.  Come back as soon as you can."  
So the boy started out on his journey and he found a little girl and he asked her, "Do you know where I can find a little  red house with no windows and doors and a star inside?"  
"Ask my father, the farmer, he may know."  So the little boy found the farmer and asked him, "Do you know where I can find a little red house with no windows and no doors and a star inside?"  The farmer laughed and said, "I've lived many years but I've never seen anything like it -- go ask Granny-- she knows everything!"
So the little boy asked Granny, "Please Granny, where can I find a house with no windows and doors and a star inside."
"I'd like to find that house myself, it would be warm in the winter and the starlight would be beautiful.  Go ask the wind-- maybe he knows."
The wind whistled by the little boy and the boy said, "Oh, wind, can you help me find a little red house with no windows and doors and a star inside."  The  wind cannot speak any words but it went on singing ahead of the little boy until it came to an apple tree and shook the branches.  Down came a beautiful red apple. (Show your apple)  
The little boy picked it up and looked at it.  It was a little red house that had no windows or doors.  "I wonder," said the boy.  He took out his jackknife from his pocket and cut the apple in half. (cut apple sideways)  
How wonderful!  There in the center was a star holding little brown seeds.  He ran home and showed his mother.  "Look, I found it!"

Position words
Cut out apples and worms.  Give students two apples and one worm.  Tell them to put the apples side-by-side, put the worm above the apples, below the apples, between the two apples, at the bottom of an apple, at the top of one apple, over the two apples, etc.

Pick out your favorite stories about apples.

The Apple Pie Tree 
Ten Apples Up on Top

There are so many FREE and ready to print for a small fee apple activities on TeachersPayTeachers, Pintrest and just google ideas for kindergarten. 

MATH activities
Make or print trees and use apple erasers or red painted lima beans as counters. 

• Roll a die or use number cards to tell how many apples to put on your tree. 

• Addition number sentences can also be used.  (paint  lima beans yellow or green to show two sets--though real trees don't have two colors/kinds of apples)

• Practice 'take away' (subtraction), how many are left?

• How many more?  Students roll die and count out apples.  Ask how many more do you need to have 10 apples?  

Reading sight words printed on apple shapes.  
Make a memory game with sight words, letter match, shape match, letter and beginning sound pictures.

There will be more soon...keep watching because...

 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! 

Memory games

Concentration Memory Games

Kindergarten rules-
Take the time to model and practice how to play. 
Lay the cards on the floor or table in an even array with straight rows and columns. Or use a pocket chart.

Cards can be face up or faced down depending on matching skill, number of cards and skill level of players.
Determine the direction of play moving to the left or to the right.
Students take turns turning over two cards while naming the picture or word. The cards must stay in the same place. After turning the cards over, player must sit back with hands in lap and count to 3.  This gives everyone a chance to see and memorize the position and the card revealed.  If they don't match, the student flips cards back over in the SAME place.  Students tells next student, by name, that it is their turn. ("Joe, it is your turn.")  If they don't know the student's name, they need to ask.  
If the cards match, player keeps the pair.  The decision whether the player will have another turn, depends on the players' game playing skill and number of cards to match.
 
Memory games can be made by using bottle caps for letter matching, capital to capital, capital to lowercase, lowercase to lowercase, sight words.
 

Cards can be made with shapes to match a theme or as simple as squared cards.

Matching cards can practice rhyming with pictures to pictures, words to words.  
Match letter to beginning sound pictures or words to pictures.  
Number quantity to equal quantity, numeral to numeral, numeral to set, ten-frame to numeral, etc.

Consider the players' attention span when determining how many cards to match during one game.  At the beginning, the fewer the cards the quicker the game will go and keeping the student's attention and interest.

With younger children, an adult should monitor the progression of the game.  Score does not need to be kept at the first.  All students are congratulated that they helped each other find the matches by playing.

Considering the maturity of the players, will set the  atmosphere and interest to play more games.

Hand-in-hand we grow!

Janet

 

Tell me something good 3 Eclipse and circles

Something quick and easy:
Here was a last minute idea I did inspired by the latest eclipse event.
I printed a yellow circle and a black circle (with a yellow).  The children practiced their cutting of the black circle and glued it slightly covering the yellow (sun).  
We watched the live streaming of the progression of the moon covering the sun.  Of course their understanding and patience waned so we busied ourselves with this cutting activity.  Ever so often, I pointed out how the yellow curve was growing smaller and then larger.  

 Actually, it was an activity that we did just before inside recess.  (Inside recess was a new experience for them so they had to learn about this new procedure.)
I was also able to introduce our Science standard about what can be seen in a day sky and a night sky.  


 Do you love books?  
Kathleen at Kidpeopleclassroom is doing her last summer book giveaway!

This is the book.  
 

Hand-in-hand we grow!

Janet