Apples is a wonderful picture book that shares tons of information about apples. The illustrations help young readers picture walk through the book. There is a lot of text on each page and many young readers will need to have this book read to them. It is so worth reading with them even if it is only a page or two at a time.
The book shares how bees help pollinate apple blossoms, young trees are encourage to grow, the history of the apple and so much more. My son loves to know why things are they way they are. This book shared with him a bounty of information on apples. He really liked the history of apples the best. It discuss ancient Greece and Rome. JDaniel is really into that time period right now.
As I mentioned the illustrations are wonderful. Phyllis Limbacher Tildes pictures really illustrate what the text is sharing. I think you will really enjoy exploring this book.
What did we do to explore this book?
I used the same template I created of the math activities last week to create syllable cards with apple themed words on them. JDaniel and I sounded out the words on the cards and clapped the number of syllables each word has.
Then he put a paper clip over the number of syllables each word has. We had fun clapping and clipping. This maybe a style of task card that I make for him again and again for reading activities and other content area skills.
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What a fun way to learn syllables.
Have a great weekend!
That’s a great way to learn syllables!! I am going to give this a try.
This book looks fun! Too bad we missed it earlier in our apple explorations. I love the activity you came up with.
I remember when ours was learning about syllables and clapping too What a great activity to do!
Blessings & Aloha!
Just wanted you to know I tried this with one of the kids I tutor and they loved it!
Super cute and perfect for the season!
My son is doing apple week (last week and this week, so I guess I should say, ‘Apple Weeks’). He’s having such a great time telling me all about Johnny Appleseed. 😉
I remember clapping for syllables. If I remember after all of this time, I’m quite sure it’s effective. 🙂
Have a great week!
We are doing apple theme this (and last) week too. Love your ideas and popping over to your FB page!
once again… you’re an awesome mom and a great teacher
Very cute learning idea – love it! Thanks so much for sharing it at After School.
Love the syllable counting. I’ll be featuring it on The Sunday Showcase this weekend. Thanks for linking up!
This is SO cute! I’m featuring this on my blog at the After School Linky tomorrow!
What a fun fall themed learning activity!
Thanks for linking up to TGIF. Hope to see you linked up again later today,
Beth =)