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Students learn about apples, then help create a bulletin board for the classroom.
Objectives:
To enhance motor skills with cutting, pasting, painting
Materials: small paper plates (1 for each student)
green construction paper squares
brown construction paper squares
red, green, and yellow paint
Plan: - Read an Apple Book. There are several out there. The
Apple Pie Tree, The
Seasons of Arnolds Apple Tree, etc. Talk about the book you have read: Discuss
what color apples are. How do they grow? How do they differ in taste?
- Make apples with the children.
- Have the children paint their apple whichever color is their favorite.
- Set them aside to dry.
- When dry, give the children a green and brown construction square. Tell them
to cut a stem out of the brown and a leaf out of the green.
- Glue stem onto the apple.
- Decorate a bulletin board with a large tree. I put the tree to one side and
then make a construction paper fence along the bottom. I make paper birds, a sun,
and other things to add to the "country scene."
- Scatter the apples around on the bulletin board. I put some of them on the
ground, some in the tree.
- This makes a great bulletin board made by the children.. This year I captioned
it "An Apple a Day...." and then we talked about various phrases the
children have heard with this in it... what good things an apple can do for you.
- We graphed the different apples on the bulletin board.
- We counted the apples in the tree, on the ground, etc....
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