Harvest Time For Apples Pumpkins Potatoes and More

Here is Kathleen’s Science Center in Idaho — Home of the Spuds. It is Harvest time there. What a great time to teach your students the science of the vegetable that is everywhere! Take advantage of fall’s bounty to add a twist to your skills or introduce a scientific process.

Apples, pumpkins, corn are just a few items that are being harvested in the field or gathered from a garden. Using these common and easily assessable fruits and vegetables will bring learning into the classroom.

Let your students investigate a pumpkin by reaching in to grab a handful of seeds to count. Cut an apple in half to examine the seed “star” in the center. Use a balance to see how many counting bears will equal the weight of a potato. Use related flashcards to review numbers, letters, and sounds. Read books - fiction and nonfiction - about apples or pumpkins. Graph your favorite kind of potato. Write about eating any of these foods or about a harvest or garden experience.

The learning possibilities are endless - math, literacy, and science goals and standards can all be met while focusing attention on items that are relevant to your students, Stop by your local grocery store...or your own garden...to gather some fruits or vegetables that are being harvested, then begin!

Apple Thematic Unit

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Product Description

Apples Anyone?

This apple thematic unit is strategically linked to core standards and will connect all areas of your curriculum. Apples Yum!

Table of Contents

Shared Reading Lessons:

And Apple is its Name Oh: Enjoying Songs & Poetry

Way Up High in the Apple Tree: Enjoying Songs & Poetry

Yummy Apples: Word Substitution

Apple Flashcards

Literacy Activities

ABC Apple Orchard: Identifying Alphabet Letters

Apple Tree Rhymes: Producing Rhyming Words

Eating Apples: Identifying Beginning Sounds

Color Word Worms: Matching and Writing Color Words

ABC Apple Trace: Tracing Alphabet Letters

Math Activities

Willy the Wandering Worm: Identifying Numbers

Apple Number Memory: Matching Numbers

Bobbing For Apples: Working with 5-Frames

Math Journal Sticker: Draw an Apple Story

Writing

Apple Wordwall (Beautiful Realistic Photographs)

Apple Parts: Labeling Activity

The Way I Like Apples

Johnny Appleseed

Guided Reading Books

I like Apples

Apples Guided Reading Supports

Science

Apple Report: Scientific Processes

Apple Taste Test: Making Comparisons and Recording Data

Apple Life Cycle: Portfolio Sample

Art Projects

Apple Tree Art

Apple Mosaic

Apple Prints

Songs/Fingerplays

Eating Apples (Be careful, this one will not leave your brain)

Five Little Apples

Have You Ever Seen An Apple

The Apple Tree

Apples

Applesauce

Apple and Pumpkin Themed Guided Readers

Apple Experiment Science Guided Reader

Eating Apples Free Beginning Sound Game

Harvest Unit

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Fall Writing Activities for Preschool

Fall Guided Readers

Fall Alphabet Free Game

Fall Clip Art

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Harvest Thematic Unit

$8.00

Also available at Teachers Pay Teachers!

This Harvest unit; pumpkins, potatoes, corn, apples and more is classroom tested. The Harvest Unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.

Literacy Activities:

Pumpkin Rhymes: Producing Rhyming Words

Harvesting Spuds: Identifying Uppercase Letters

Harvest ABC Train: Letter Identification

The Country Store: Clapping Syllables

Pumpkin Letters: Writing Alphabet Letters

Math Activities:

Ordering Baskets: Ordering objects from least to greatest.

Harvest Sorting: Sorting potatoes or apples into groups

Harvest Balancing: Experimenting with a balance

Number Bingo: Identifying the numbers 0-12

Patterns Worksheet