Little Green Apple Lesson Plan
Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Children will follow how apples get from orchards to stores.
Social Studies Focus:
production, distribution, and consumption
Science Focus:
plants
Page 4 Skill:
graphing
Vocabulary:
apple picker, basket, buy, follow, horse, ladder, orchard, trees, truck
CCSS:
RI.K.1, RF.K.1.D, SL.K.2
- Begin by watching our video Apples!
- Afterward, ask children to share what kind of apple foods they like to eat, such as applesauce, apple pie, or apple cider donuts.
- Read the issue together.
- Afterward, have kids explain in their own words how an apple gets from a farm to the store.
- Be sure to move to our apple Dance Break!
- Use the Show What You Know printable as a follow-up activity. You can project it and discuss the questions together, or send it home for kids to work on with families.
- Practice sorting apples by color, by size, or by number of seeds with our Apple Sort game.
- Children can use letter recognition to reveal a cute apple-themed picture with our Color by Letter skill sheet.
Materials: paper plates, tape, safety scissors, crayons
- Give each child a paper plate. Help children cut a semicircle out of each side.
- Use crayons to color the plate rims red, yellow, or green. Kids can also draw seeds in the middle using a black crayon. For the leaf, use a green crayon to color one of the semicircles you cut out. Attach it with tape to the top of the apple core.
- At school, create a bulletin board displaying children’s work beneath this poem:
One bite, two bites, three bites, four—
All that’s left is my apple core!
- At home, copy the poem on paper and attach it to the apple core!