Apple Activities and Assessments

I am very excited about next week! We're going to be using apples to work on lots of skills. The apple orchard is a great place to reinforce our learning about goods vs services, community workers and plant parts. In the classroom, we'll be reading books about Johnny Appleseed, apple trees through the seasons, and how apple trees grow. We'll use the ActivBoard to build words with apples and do several other activities. In math, we'll taste-test apple types and graph our favorites. We'll also work on patterns with apple die cuts. . . .And of course, if we are cutting apples into pieces we HAVE to talk about fractions! Along with all these apples activities, we'll take a few minutes each day to complete assessments to get ready for report card time.