13 pages. Common Core State Standard: 1.MD.3a

Use these themed apple cards to teach/review digital and analog time to the hour and half hour. This FREE packet includes 2 assessments, plus a black and white template and cover, so children can make their own Itty Bitty Telling Time booklet.  This is a special FREEBIE in my TpT shop.  Click on the link to grab yours today.

7 pages.

These activities can be used several different ways: as a worksheet for table top sequencing, as a flip book, or for a game.  Also includes 6 life cycle of an apple teacher cards, suitable for your word wall, pocket chart or mini booklet.

1-2-3 Come Sequence The Life Cycle Of An Apple With Me!

I liked to do several life cycle "craftivities" for our apple unit.  After several hands-on activities, the sequence eventually got into everyones head.  Cutting and glueing are wonderful fine motor skills that need plenty of practice, so I made several ways for you to use the life cycle of an apple printables.

For a quick and easy table top activity, run off the “Sequencing the Life Cycle of an Apple” worksheet.  Make sure you print a color copy for your demonstration model.  Students cut off the bottom and then cut and glue the individual pictures to the matching ordinal number position at the top of the paper. Before hand, point out to students, that the pictures are numbered.

When everyone has completed their project, use the “teacher cards” on your word wall or pocket chart, to reinforce and review the life cycle (science) as well as the new vocabulary. This is a great time to cover ordinal numbers as well.

If you’d like to involve math, have students choose a partner and take turns rolling a die.  Whatever number they roll, is the piece that they cut and glue.  If they roll a six, they lose their turn.  The first child who completes their apple life cycle, or the one who has the most squares glued on when the timer rings, is the winner.  All children should complete their paper.

To involve a bit more cutting, plus listening and following directions skills, pre-cut red, yellow and light green construction paper into 11 by 4 inch strips.  Give students a color choice.  They cut “slits” on their ordinal number template; the “doors” will then flip up.  So that children don’t snip off their “fllip-up’s” remind them to STOP cutting when they run out of a line to follow.

Students rub a line of glue along the top of their ordinal number rectangle (this is the title portion) and glue it to their piece of construction paper.

Children press on the folds to crease them, so that they easily flip up.  Students glue the appropriate picture under each flap.  When everyone is done, to make sure that students have the correct order, review the life cycle.

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1-2-3 Come Count Apples With Me

Bingo daubers were always part of our daily centers.  My students LOVED dotting patterns, answers, and pictures with them.  With that in mind, I designed the Apples On My Tree Counting Booklet.

Students trace and write the number word and then find it in the sequence and circle it.  They also slash that many tally marks and dot that many apples on the tree with a bingo dauber.  I have red, yellow and lime green colors available, to review that science fact.

The last page ends with 10 apples and also asks children to daub an apple on the final tree, for each year that they are old. When everyone has completed their booklet, read it as a whole group to reinforce concepts of print.

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8 pages.

Your students will enjoy making this apple counting booklet.  Children trace and write the number & number word.  They find that number in the sequence (0-10) and circle it.  They also slash that many tally marks and bingo dot that many apples on their tree.

1-2-3 Come Practice Ordinal Numbers With Me

This packet is a quick, easy and effective way to review/teach ordinal numbers and patterning at the same time.

Students number the objects and then connect the ordinal number word to the themed object, which holds that place in line. They then choose 2-3 crayons/markers and color the items in an ABAB or ABCABC pattern.  

These cards are for possible monthly themes for the fall. September: school busses, leaves, and apples; October: pumpkins, bats and spiders; November: turkeys.

I've also included traceable ordinal number word cards, that you can use for a pocket chart or word wall.  You can also run them off for students to trace and write as a mini ordinal number booklet.

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12 pages.

Quick, easy and effective way to teach/review ordinal numbers along with patterning.  Students number the items and color the themed-object in an ABAB or ABCABC pattern. They also draw lines from the ordinal number word, to the matching object in line.

1-2-3 Come Chicka Boom With Me!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is one of my all-time favorite teaching books.  Students enjoy the bright colors and the silliness of letters climbing up a coconut tree, that go "boom boom" once they get to the top.

After reading the "boom boom" book the first week of school, I followed it up with a reading of Chicka 123, where numbers replace letters.

I designed "Me and the Coconut Tree" as an activity that students could independently work on after the story.  Children trace and write the numbers and number words.  Using a bingo dauber, they dot however many coconuts match that numbered tree.

The story concludes by having students fill in how many coconuts are beside the tree based on how old they are.  They are also instructed to draw a picture of themselves. "__________________ (however old you are) coconuts beside the coconut tree and me!"

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7 pages.

A nice follow-up activity, to do after you read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Chicka Boom 1 2 3.  Students trace and then write the number and number word, plus bingo dot or color, that many coconuts beside the coconut tree.

9 pages.

If you are doing a pumpkin theme, you'll enjoy this 10 frame pumpkin packet.

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