Pre-Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Unit 2: Fall Fun with Friends

Book Title: Apples for Everyone Author: Jill Esbaum Common Core Correlations: RI, SL Subtheme Correlation: Science

Read 1 Objective: Students will integrate knowledge and ideas by exploring pictures/illustrations of the story and answering questions about big ideas. (RI 1.7; SL3.2) Suggested Vocabulary: apples, orchards, blossom, bumps, stuffing, cider, pie, seeds, crushed, tangy Conversation Starter: Show the students a basket of apples. (red, yellow, green) “Who can tell me what I have in my basket? What do you know about apples? Now look at the cover of the book we are going to read today. Tell me about the apples on the cover. Let’s read our story Apples for Everyone to find out more about apples.” Open-Ended Question(s): Possible Teacher-Scaffolding Response Describe how an apple grows. Possible Child Response: “It gets bigger.”  How does the apple look when it is small?  How does the apple change?  What other things are small then grow bigger? Possible Child Response: “It grows on trees.”  How did the apples change on the trees? (process)  What else grows on trees? Turn and Talk: Pretend you are going to an apple orchard. Tell about what you would do there. Follow-Up Activity: Apple Book Materials: apples, camera, paper, glue, writing tools Descriptions: The students will create a book illustrating and describing how an apple grows. Each stage of the cycle will be drawn on a different page. The students can write or dictate about their pictures. On the last page, glue a photo of the student eating his/her favorite kind of apple.

Read 2 Objective: Students will understand the key ideas in the story Apples for Everyone by answering questions about information in the text and by providing additional details. (RI 1.1; SL 3.4) Suggested Vocabulary: apples, orchards, blossom, bumps, stuffing, cider, pie, seeds, crushed, tangy Conversation Starter: Bring in a variety of apples (Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Jonathon, McIntosh, Pink Lady, and Red Delicious). “In the book Apples for Everyone, we learned that there are many different kinds of apples. Tell me about some of the kinds we read about. I have brought in some of those apples for us today. How are these apples different from each other?” Allow students to look at and taste the different kinds to help answer the question. “We enjoy eating apples this way but there is also so much more we can do with them!” Open-Ended Question(s): Possible Teacher-Scaffolding Response Describe what you can make with apples after they Possible Child Response: “You can make apple pie” are harvested.  How do you make apple pie?  What other kinds of pie are there? Possible Child Response: “I drink apple juice”  How do you make apple juice from apples?  How does apple juice taste? Turn and Talk: Tell about an apple food you would make and describe how you would make it. Follow-Up Activity: Apple Graph Materials: different types of apple foods/drinks (pie, applesauce, apple butter, cider, juice), graph, apple cut-outs, crayons, tape Description: Have a variety of apple products for the students to taste (These can be store bought or previously done as cooking activities with the class). Students will taste each one and pick their favorite. They will be given an apple cut-out to draw a picture of their favorite food/drink on. Then they will hang it on the graph by what they like best. When the graph is completed, students will be able to interpret data they collected by answering questions about the graph, such as which was liked by the most students and fewest students and how many liked each product. Submitted by: J. McCarty #224 T. Cegielski #45 J. Glover # 67