Little Green Apple Lesson Plan

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will follow the steps of how apples get from the orchard to the store.

 

Science Focus:

Parts of plants

 

Social Studies Focus:

Production, distribution, and consumption

 

CCSS:

SL.1.2 Discuss a video; RI.1.1 Key details; RI.1.5 Nonfiction text features; RF.1.3 Decode words; RI.1.10 Read and discuss first-grade texts, L.1.1 Conventions of English when writing

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  • Before watching Apples!, have children share what they already know about apples. Ask: “What colors are apples? How do they taste? What else do you know about them?”
  • After watching, invite children to share what they learned.
  • Read the issue together. 
  • Have fun pretending to make apple pies with our Dance Break video!
  • Then project and discuss the reading checkpoint skill sheet. Later, children can fill in their own copies. (SKILL: RI.1.1 Key details)

Have fun with word-family practice by playing the online game, in which children get to hunt for apples in an apple orchard!

  • Kids read a diagram of an apple, color its parts, and trace the labels with this skill sheet. (SKILL: RI.1.5 Nonfi ction text features)
  • Give kids practice in sight words with our color by sight word skill sheet. As they fi ll in the correct colors, an apple-themed picture will appear. (SKILL: RF.1.3 Decode words)
Completed apple core made out of a paper plate

Objective: Children will create a craft showing the parts of an apple.

Materials: paper plates, safety scissors, tape, markers, crayons

  • Give each child a paper plate. Help children cut a semicircle out of each side. Save one to use as a leaf. Have kids use a marker or crayon to color the plate rims red, yellow, or green. Kids can draw seeds in the middle using a black marker. Now color one of the semicircles green. Attach it to the top of the apple core. Children can write labels on their finished craft, pointing out the leaf, seeds, and skin.
  • If doing the activity at school, you can 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!

  • If doing it at home, copy the poem on paper and attach it to the apple core! SKILLS: How-to writing; L.1.1 Conventions of English when writing