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Date: 4/23/15
Grade Level: Head Start
Total Time: 30 minutes
I. Objectives:
The children will enhance their fine motor skills by tracing the letters of their
name on each individual apple.
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The children will enhance their expressive language ability by identifying and
communicating the red, yellow, and green apples from the book.
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The children will develop number concepts by counting the number of apples
in each apple name in the class.
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II. Materials:
1 big book An Apple A Day By: Melvin Berger
String
Markers
Tape/Glue
Two Little Apples Poem with words and visuals
5 Red apple cutouts
5 Green Apple Cutouts
5 Yellow Apple Cutouts
*Number of apple cutouts depending on class size; make sure the apple cutouts
have tracing lines for letters in each childs name.
III. Procedure:
A. Motivation
1. I will enter circle time with a big book An Apple A Day By Melvin
Berger in hopes the big book grabs attention.
2. I will say the poem Two Little Apples the first time, and have the
children participate the second time.
3. I will read the book An Apple A Day By Melvin Berger.
B. Steps
1. I will ask probing questions during the book; What are the different colors
an apple can be? and How many apples are on this page?
2. I will hand out the apples with letters according to each childs name.
3. I will hand out on marker to each child.
4. The children will trace each letter on their apples and put them in order to
make their name.
5. I will pass out one really long piece of string.
6. I will assist the children in taping the long string to the back of each plate
to make a vertical or horizontal line.
IV. Conclusion:
We will recite the Two Little Apples poem.
V. Transition:
Each child will roll (carefully) like an apple off a tree to the next activity.
Self-Reflection Assessment:
What did the children most enjoy?
What did the children least enjoy?
If I implemented this lesson again, what would I do differently?
VIII. Early Learning Standards Met:
Domain/Element: Physical Development and Health/Fine Motor Skills
Domain/Element: Literacy and Knowledge/Book Appreciation
Domain/Element: Language Development/Expressive Language
Domain/Element: Literacy and Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge
Domain/Element: Mathematic Knowledge and Skills/Number Concepts and
Quantities
Supplemental Materials:
Two Little Apples:
Way up high, in an apple tree (point up)
Two little apples looking down at me (two fists up in the air)
So I shook that tree as hard as I could (two fists shake trunk)
Down fell the apples (fists fall to ground)
Mmmmm! were they good! (rub tummy)