One of my favorite things about fall is learning about apples. This is always a fun little mini unit. We learn all about the properties of apples, use our 5 senses to explore and describe apples, we taste and graph apples, and we even make our own applesauce! One of the things I also like to do since it's fairly early in the year is to review positional words. I created this little reader entitled, Wiggle's Apple Book, to help reinforce and check for understanding of positional words. After I copy the book for everyone and we discuss/review positional words, I give each student 5 little "worms". (They are really just pipe cleaners). Then I have the students bend them to resemble little worms, which is great fine motor practice too. As they place the worms onto their pages in the correct position, I let them tape the worms in place using scotch tape. It's super simple, but it's a great formative assessment for me, and the kiddies enjoy making and reading their books.
Check out one of my students' books below:
I sure hope you can read sideways, because I can't figure out how to rotate these pictures! When I uploaded them the first time, they were facing the right way. Sorry about that! Hopefully you'll get the idea! By the way, if you visit my TPT store, you can download this book for FREE! You can click the link below to take you there! Enjoy!
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