APPLE Friday with Leslie and Marie!

Wow! What a week! Have you been enjoying reading up on all of these fun APPLE WEEK ideas as much as we have?? 

Leslie and I have some more ideas and, of course, freebies to share with you guys too!

First up, this is not necessarily a "teacher" resource, but I am going to try to make these with my class during our Fall party. I'm going to sub marshmallow fluff for the peanut butter so I don't have anyone have an allergic reaction on my watch :)

Source from Pinterest 

I'm also planning on creating a few gifts for my teammates at work. I made these cute little apple clip art pieces to use on their gift tags I'm making. :)

These are free, so just click the picture if you'd like to download them! 

These are the tags I made last year for my apple basket gifts :)

I like to give "Fall gifts" because here in Arizona, Fall is so exciting! It's when we stop seeing those triple digit temps!

Just click the picture above to download the tags!

I also have a fun Apple Literacy packet in my TpT Store. 

This is a packet of APPLE themed activities. 

It includes three center activities:

*Harvest Thyme: A Homophone “Picking” Memory Game 

* Sweet Synonyms: Find the synonym matches on the apple cards

* How do you make an apple pie? Practice with writing directions and using transitional words (recipe cards) After reviewing what transitional words are used for, students will make their own super cute APPLE PIE recipe cards!

I also included a set of Apple Themed Transitional word cards!

This would be a great addition to enhance your Apple Unit/Centers!

You can click the picture above to go see more! 

And, before you read all about Leslie's great APPLE ideas, I'll leave you with ONE more APPLE themed idea...this one is for MATH! I created this one to follow the Kindergarten CC math standards, but it could easily be adapted and used for beginning of the year First graders or strugglers!

You can CLICK HERE to see more about this math packet!

And, now...I'll leave you with Leslie:

Hey everyone! It's Leslie from 

Oh my!! How fun is that, Marie!! I totally love your apple-tastic science experiment! I am totally doing that with my class, too! This week has just been so fun learning about apples and Johnny Appleseed! We started off the week with Katie's sweet story of the "Apple Star". If you haven't heard or read that story, it is a MUST!!! The kids were just so delighted and so was their teacher! 

We also did some apple writing and tasting (who doesn't love to eat and taste apples?). We worked on the seasons of the apple tree with a cute painting craft and worked out of my "An Apple a Day" Pack! 

Then today we made homemade applesauce in the crockpot! Here's a quick recipe  if you want to try it! You will because your room will smell intoxicating!!! 

10-12 large apples (I like Fuji-- but any apples will be okay.)

1/2 cup apple juice/cider (water would be ok)

1 tsp of cinnamon

1/2 cup sugar or brown sugar

Cut apples (rough chop is fine) and place in crockpot. Add other ingredients and mix. Cook on high for 4 hours or until apples are mushy. Use a potato masher and mash down.  Let cool for a bit. Serve warm. 

Now, some children may balk when they see it because it doesn't look like the brand name applesauce but I always tell them that this is true homemade applesauce. 

Since yesterday was Johnny Appleseed's birthday, we celebrated by making Johnny Appleseed headbands with the cycle of the apple tree around the head part! Total cuteness and you can grab yours here!

Click on the picture to grab it from my blog! And I also have some more pictures from my week in Apples posted there! 

Thanks so much for hanging with Marie and I!!! We had so much fun sharing our ideas with you! Check back tomorrow for more Apple ideas with Anna, Tammy, and Christy! 

Apples Ideas With Jessica and Faith

Do you need a few more ideas and things to add to your lesson plans for next week?

Well, it's Apple Week here at Primary Chalkboard.
We are going to share 5 fabulous ideas that we found or created that we think you will enjoy!

#1 - Math Apple Fun

Here's a freebie from Faith that includes one addition sheet and one subtraction sheet.  These can be used as morning work, homework, or a quick fluency quiz.

#2 - 2 Freebie Apple Math Centers

Here's a freebie from Jessica that covers addition and subtraction in a fun way.  For addition, she included Spin-a-Sum and for subtraction, she threw in Match-a-Difference.  

#3 - Apple Craftivity

This is a cute, but simple activity you can do with your class.  We looked for where the post originated from, but couldn't find it.  Feel free to let us know if it is yours.  We definitely want to give credit.

#4 - Johnny Appleseed

This is a fun little craft to do when teaching about Johnny Appleseed.  Click on the picture to go read more about it.

#5 - Johnny Appleseed Part II

We LOVED this little paper plate craft.  This will be a fun activity to do with your class as a Fun Friday activity or to do just for fun.

Alright, now it's your turn.  Feel free to link up some apple freebies that you have created or found.  We look forward to checking them out.  

All About Apples Week: Lisa & Tamara

We are all excited about what we're doing for Apple Week here at Primary Chalkboard! :)  I hope you've gotten to snag a few great freebies and ideas so far for your firsties and seconds! :) Lisa and I are going to share a few things with you that we hope will make your Apple Week sensational!! :0)

Hello everyone!  It's Tamara and I'd like to tell you a wee bit about something 'apple-y' that I'm using in my classroom this week...and into next week! :)

I worked on a brand new apple writing pack over the summer and I'm looking forward to using it with my firsties to reflect on reading and collaborative activities from our apple celebration! :)

This apple writing pack includes:

These are great to have up during writing time to 'cue' students to what your expectations are.

There are worksheets for brainstorming, drafting, revising, and publishing.  There are even some mini student friendly checklists for peer editing time.

I made the lines on the Level 1 sheets wider for emergent writers--thinner on the Level 2 sheets.  In the example above the students on Level 2 are required to have three supports...while students on Level 1 only require one.

I am a LOVER of subitizing in math! :)

Subitizing is the ability to recall numbers without needing to count.  Kind of like how you know that the shape of the dots on the face of a die mean 5 or 2 or 6 without having to stop and count every time you roll. ;)

This is a helpful tool for number sense! :)

It's apple themed and it's YOURS if you'd like it for your classroom! :)

Just

click

HERE.

Lisa from Growing Firsties here...

In my school, our curriculum is pretty mandated...and we technically don't "do" apples in first grade BUT...how could I not join in Apple Week fun and put together a little freebie?

An Apple-tastic Freebie, at that! :) My class has used a few of these pages as Daily Warm Up and it's had us in the mood for apples for sure!

Here's what's included in the download...which you can get to right {HERE}...

Hope you guys are enjoying Apple Week here at Primary Chalkboard!!

If you have a hankerin' to enter to win the September Mystery Box Giveaway over at Growing Firsties, go ahead and click the pic below. :)

We Love Apples!!!

It is Apples Week on the Primary Chalkboard blog and we are very excited to share some of our favorite apple products with you.  And of course there's a FREEBIE!!!

During Apples Week I read so many books to my students.  Click on the picture to see a list of great Apple books to read with your students.

Here is my Apple Unit that is available on TPT!

This is a 48 page unit full of apple activities to accompany your study of apples and Johnny Appleseed. Visit my blog at http://flyingintofirst.blogspot.com and get some freebies from this unit. This unit includes the following:

Apple Color Graph

Apple Color Data

Vocabulary Chart

Vocabulary Cards

Apple Sorting

Comparing Apples

Apple Themed Word Search

Life Cycle of an Apple Tree

Life Cycle of an Apple Tree cards

KWL Chart

Apple 5 Senses

Apples Taste, Have, and Are Writing page

Labels to make a taste, have, are whole group chart

Apple Bubble and Circle Map

Johnny Appleseed Bubble and Circle Map

Acrostic Poem Page to create for Apple

Apple Parts Labeling

8x11 Johnny Appleseed Mini Book (6 pages)

Apple Pattern Task Cards along with Cards to make patterns on pocket chart

Apple Colors page to review colors

and

Here is your FREEBIE!   I really hope you can use it with your students!

Click on the cover page to grab it!

Happy Apples Week!!!

Just download and read. Your students will never forget this!

Well Hello! This is Katie from Teacher to the Core.
I have the best little read-a-loud ever to share with you and some freebies too! Each year since coming to first grade I have read the same magical story to my class. 
It will give you chills, I promise!

I bring my students down to the carpet and really gather them near. I tell them they won’t want to miss a single thing from this story. They will want to see the apple as well.  I point out the single apple on my desk.

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Once upon a time there was a little boy. He lived in the countryside. There were fields of grass, farms, and the air smelled sweet and fresh.  This little boy was tired of playing with his toys and tired of his books and puzzles.

"What shall I do? He asked his mother. And his mother, who always knew fun things for little boys to do, said "Why not go and find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside." It will be an adventure, a quest of sorts.

This made the little boy wonder. Usually his mother had good ideas, but he thought that this one was very strange.

"Which way shall I go?" He asked his mother. "I don't know where to find a little red house with no doors and no windows".

"Go down the road past the farmer's house and over the hill," said his mother, "and then hurry back as soon as you can and tell me all about your journey."

So the little boy put on his hat and his jacket and started out. He had not gone very far down the lane when he came to a happy little girl dancing along in the sunshine. Her cheeks were like pink blossom petals and she was singing like a robin.

"Do you know where I shall find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside?" asked the little boy.
The little girl laughed. "Ask my father the farmer," she said. "Perhaps he knows."

So the little boy went on until he came to the great brown barn where the farmer kept barrels of fat potatoes and baskets of yellow squash and golden pumpkins. The farmer himself stood in the doorway looking out over the green pastures and yellow grain fields.

"Do you know where I shall find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside?" asked the little boy of the farmer. The farmer laughed too. "I've lived a great many years and I never saw one," he chuckled, "but ask Granny who lives at the foot of the hill . . . She knows how to make homemade cookies, taffy, and popcorn balls . . . and red mittens! Perhaps she can tell you."

So the little boy went on farther still, until he came to the Granny sitting in her rocker on her front porch. She had lots of wrinkles and a big smile on her sweet face.

"Please, dear Granny," said the little boy, "where shall I find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside?"

The granny was knitting a red mitten and when she heard the little boy's question, she chuckled so heartily that the wool ball rolled out of her lap and down to the little stone path.

"I should like to find that little house myself," she laughed. "It would be warm when the frosty nights come and the starlight would be much prettier than a candle. But ask the wind who blows about so much and listens at all the chimneys. Perhaps the wind can tell you."

So the little boy took off his cap politely to the granny and went on up the hill rather sadly. He wondered if his mother, who usually knew almost everything, had perhaps made a mistake.

The wind was coming down the hill as the little boy climbed up. As they met, the wind turned about and went along, singing beside the little boy. It whistled in his ear, and pushed him along and dropped a pretty leaf into his hands.

"I wonder," thought the little boy, after they had gone along together for awhile, "if the wind could help me find a little red house with no doors, and no windows and a star inside."

The wind cannot speak in our words, but it went singing ahead of the little boy until it came to an orchard. There it climbed up in the apple tree and shook the branches. When the little boy caught up with the wind, there, at his feet, lay a big red apple. The little boy picked up the apple. It was as much as his two hands could hold. It was as red as the sun had been able to paint it, and it had no doors and no windows. Was there a star inside?

{At this point pick up the apple on your desk}

The little boy called to the wind, "Thank you", and the wind whistled back, "You're welcome."

The little boy hurried back down the lane with the big, red apple in his hand. The wind was pushing him and laughing in his ear. When he reached his house the little boy threw open his front door! “Mother!”, he called. He gave the apple to his mother. His mother said, "You have found a house with no doors and no windows, but where is the star?" His mother took a knife …{Now cut the apple crosswise} and she cut the apple through the center. Oh, how wonderful! {Show the apple}

There inside the apple, lay a star holding five brown seeds.

"It is too wonderful Mother. Thank you for my quest. I shall never forget this journey, and will always look for the star inside my apple." said the little boy to this mother.

"Yes, indeed," answered his mother. “Yes indeed.”

Adapted from a story by Carolina Sherwin Baile

  

 

Every year my students burst into applause at the end of the story! I hope your students love it as much as mine!

Special Thanks to:

Kimbery Geswein Fonts, The 3am Teacher for graphics,

and my teammate, Meredith, for introducing

 Carolina Sherwin Baile’s story to us!

Her story is a treasure as are the family traditions that this time of year can offer! 

We never miss apple picking. Before we had Jackson, we used to pick apples with my grandparents and Justin’s Aunt Julie.  If you live where you can pick apples please don’t miss this opportunities to make this a tradition. And when you get home you can make apple sauce, apple pie, or just eat the apples, and of course read the story of the Little House with a Star inside.

For more amazing and fun activities to do with K-2 aged kids click the picture below and read about Apple Day/ Week. When you click the picture below you will be taken to a post with another freebie too. Happy Apple Season, and may your star always shine bright!

 

 

 

Be sure to stop by later in the week to see more apple posts and freebies from my other "chalkie" friends!