🍓🍌🍉 Fruit
This Month’s Theme - All About Fall
I hope you enjoy the Fruit Lesson Plan as part of the All About Fall series, some things to note:
ELA focus is CVC words.
Math focus is addition to 10.
The lesson plans are designed for Kindergarten and can be adapted for other grades.
Achieve mastery before having your child move on to the next ELA or Math focus.
Don’t feel like you need to do everything, pick and choose the best activities for your student(s).
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Enjoy! Tiff
Fruit
Fruit Handwriting Pages - FREEBIE
Learn about different types of fruit and practice handwriting at the same time. Includes both a colored version and blackline version to use as coloring pages.
Includes: Vocabulary Overview Page, Eight Individual Fruit Pages: apple, cherries, strawberry, orange, banana, pineapple, pear and grapes.
Fruit of the Spirit Printable - FREEBIE
Co-Designed by a 5 Year Old
My daughter Ava is fifteen trapped in a five year-old’s body. She has an amazing design sense, I am constantly impressed by her design choices.
She has recently been obsessed with fruit and wanted to make a fruit of the holy spirit poster. You can choose to print a poster to display as you study Galatians 5:22-23 or print the fun coloring page version. Enjoy!
Fruit Market Dramatic Play
Everything you need to make your own Fruit Stand! Work on math and ELA concepts while setting up and playing store. As the shop owner you can, decorate your shop, label all the fruits, set prices, and take orders. Customers create their own grocery list, shop for fruit and pay with their $1 fruit coins.
English Language Arts - CVC Words Focus
Apple CVC Word Matching
Make your ELA time amazing with these CVC apples! Perfect for an apple unit literacy center! Just cut and match the apples. Includes placemats per vowel to practice sorting words by short vowel sounds.
CVC Tri-Blocks Word Tub
This is a great tool for teaching CVC words and Word Families. Building toys are always a hit with my girls. We took turns building words and then tried switching out the first or last letter to build new words!
Bob Books and Workbook
Bob Books will always be special to us. It gave us that incredible first “I read it all by myself” moment that has inspired a love for reading in my daughter.
We have been reading them for a while so we are on the Advancing Beginners set and workbook. But I recommend starting with Beginning Readers for Kindergarten (they have a workbook for this too) or Pre-Reading Skills for Pre-K.
Up until now, we’ve just read the books. But we recently started reading one book from the set and then completing the complimentary pages in the workbook (about one book per week). They include similar activities for each book so it helped my daughter feel comfortable completing them on her own. Her favorite is the word search they include for each book. This is a great way to help them achieve mastery of the concepts in each book before moving on.
Reading Lessons
There are only two resources I like to make sure I include on each week’s lesson plan, Prodigies Music (below) and Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. This book has thousands of 5 star reviews on Amazon for a reason. It’s an effective, no-prep way to teach reading. We are 30 or so lessons in and I can already see a difference, my daughter actually sounds out the words instead of guessing.
The lessons are short (15-20min), easy to grasp and sequential. The entire lesson is scripted and color coded so it’s fool proof, just read the words in pink. It also is designed for kids that don’t know their alphabet or letter sounds yet, so you can start right away. Their claim is that after completing all 100 lessons your child will be able to read at a 2nd grade level!
Math - Addition Focus
Apple Math Pack
This Apple Math Pack will have your Kindergartener(s) begging to have Math time! It worked for me. The day I printed these, my daughter wanted the Math lesson moved up to the first activity of the day!
Perfect for fall themed lesson plans, this Apple Math Pack provides weeks of worksheets and activities that work on their math operation skills progressively.
Includes: Ten Frames With Apples, Ten Frames With Apples Clip Cards, Blank Ten Frames. Apples Up On Top Game (2 Game Boards and Printable Dice), Apple Addition Clip Cards, Apple Tree Play-Doh Mat, Apple Addition Wheels (1-10, add numbers 0-5), Addition to 10 Ten Frames
Addition Chart
By: Superstar Worksheets
I was excited to find this Rainbow Addition Chart for our morning binder. The addition chart has been a great way to demonstrate counting relationships when adding numbers and practice math facts.
It seems to be clicking with my daughter that numbers have relationships to each other. They even have blank and partially blank versions you can fill in for practice.
Science - Parts of an Apple
Build a Seed Collection
I love combining snack time and science time. Make a fruit tray with as many types of fruit you can find in the store. We were able to find some my daughter had never tried before like Kiwi and Apricot.
We tasted the fruit and saved all the seeds. We used a paper plate to save the seeds and we labeled each one.
Art and Music
Edible Art
We love food art!
Have fun making a book inspired snack tray! Edible art is one of our favorite activities, so when we got this book I knew we had to recreate this gorgeous cover. The Fruit We Eat by Gail Gibbons is a great illustrated non-fiction book about different types of fruits and how they grow.
Fruit Bowl Drawing Lesson
By: Draw So Cute
This week my daughter had her heart set on drawing a fruit bowl, but they didn’t have one on Art for Kids Hub so we found this one. It wasn’t as easy to follow as the other videos, but the end result turned out great!
Apple Stamping
I love apple crafts. This craft was super cute and it only took 5 minutes to prep and 20 minutes to implement.
Gather your supplies (see below), and set up plates for each color of paint you will use. I cut a basket shape out of construction paper ahead of time. You can even make a weaved version out of strips of construction paper..
Then dip the apples in the paint and stamp on your basket. We took turns stamping to keep the mess low. We let our apples dry, then we glued on the seeds (black beans) and stems (twine).
Supplies needed: Apples (cut in half and padded dry), paint, construction paper, paper plates for paint, black beans for seeds, twine and glue.
Prodigies Music
The only downside to Prodigies Music, is that I constantly have “Sweet Beets, we’ve got some…” stuck in my head! We played Sweet Beets and Melon a lot this week!
It is simply an incredible curriculum for teaching music. Ages 2-5 is the critical time to develop a life-long sense of pitch. Their curriculum is designed to develop a sense of pitch with easy to use desk bells that don’t require any tuning. They also teach piano, recorder and ukulele. Their subscription includes everything you can think of 450+ videos, worksheets, free bell mats, sheet music all color coded so it’s super easy to learn. If you don’t have an instrument they have a bunch of rhythm focused content that doesn’t require an instrument.
They have a free trial and discounts for annual memberships! Great deal! You can even check out some of their videos for free on YouTube.
Sensory Bins
Apple Color Sorting - Mini Sensory Tray
Fun mini sensory tray for color sorting. Use the tongs or scoopers to sort the apples by color, just drop them in the corresponding tree.
The mini apples turned out so cute and took less than 20 minutes to make. I just hot glued a small piece of brown pipe cleaner and a small piece of green felt to mini pompoms and viola, mini apples. I glued the toilet paper rolls to the felt, but didn’t glue the felt. This way the trees stayed upright, but you could easily empty them.
Supplies used: green felt, brown pipe cleaners, mini pompoms, toilet paper rolls, bamboo tongs, sensory scoopers, and a brown marker.
Ten Apples Up On Top - Sensory Bin
I love to create sensory bins based on books, so I was really excited about this concept.
This was a super easy bin to pull together and we had a ton of fun with it. We used it as a sort of tactile storyboard and acted out stacking the apples as we read the book!
Get the free printables for this sensory bin.
Filler: Black Beans
Recommended Supplies: Ten Apples Up On Top, artificial apples (if you prefer you can just use the printable apples), oak leaves, ginko leaf stem, aspen leaf stem, wooden scoops.
Physical Education
Disco Fruit Party
By: Hey Bear
We recently discovered Hey Bear’s Sensory Videos and have really been enjoying them. Although they are designed for babies, my 5 year old requests them all the time.
The music has a great beat and the animations are excellent. We dance around like crazy people in our living room till our heart rate is up!
Indoor Ball Pit
This is a great way to get out some energy and work on gross motor skills like throwing.
We keep our watermelon pool inflated and ball pit balls easily accessible so it’s easy to pull out on short notice.
Book List
Books We Love!
- Apples (We Love Gail Gibbons!)
- The Fruits We Eat (Also by Gail Gibbons)
Don’t have the budget or space to get more books? The library has been pretty great for us so far, but they are sometimes out of the more popular books. One place that you can always count on to find great books is Epic Books! Try Epic Basic for FREE! You can find awesome read to me books for free, Unlimited plan includes access to 40,000+ books!
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