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Apples Projects

The lessons selected for this unit on Apples are all appropriate for young children starting Kindergarten. We have included lessons for math, reading and writing to help start off the school year and all of the activities have been successfully tested by children.


Apple Activities:

Compare Apples by Color

boy sorting red, yellow and green apples
Giving your child many opportunities to work with color recognition will help him master the skill. Working with only three colors: red, green and yellow will also allow your child to feel confident in his abilities. Succeeding at the task will give your child the confidence to try new things.


This is a great opportunity for your child to verbally express himself while sharing what he thinks about apples. With an opportunity to express himself, he becomes more comfortable in his own abilities.


This activity could be a spring board for journal writing about her creation or about the process. Children like creating and making their own apple person and it is great fun.


This activity allows your child to use apples in a new way. Using an item that she is familiar with in another context is a wonderful way of expanding her experience. Painting with apples rather than eating them is new for many children.


Make Apple Sauce

Save the seeds when you're cutting the apples for planting later - see Plant Apple Seed activity.
making apple sauce
Seeing her work turn into something totally different is very exciting. Children also love to help cook.


Planting seeds together helps children begin to have an understanding of nature and how the earth replenishes itself. They will experience the wonder of new life and seeing how something as small as a seed grows with a little help from them. 



Math Skills:

When you begin with counting only a few objects, you are creating a firm foundation on which your child will build harder math skills.


Being able to count can be memorized, not really understood. So when your child can take a randomly selected set of numbers and put them in order, you know he really does understand what the symbol means.


Children need to learn to read numbers. Children see numbers all around them: in signs at the store, on the street, at a gas station and will want to figure out what they all mean.


Learning the proper way to hold the pencil and make numerals correctly will be a skill your child will use for the rest of his/her life.



Writing Skills:

When your child is learning her letter sounds, writing can be a long and difficult process. Having her dictate the words to you frees your child from having to not only sound out the words but also figure out how to form the letters.  It allows her to freely express herself without any barriers.


October 18, 2008

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