Making Literacy Meaningful - A Three Part Series

Part 2

The Apple Pie Tree is a book that teaches how apples grow on an apple tree.  The seasons are beautifully depicted, and the illustrations show clearly how the tree buds in spring, gets gorgeous pink blossoms, grows tiny green apples, and people harvest ripe red apples.  The children saw how the apple tree moves through one complete growing cycle in a year.   At the end of the book, the apples become a yummy apple pie.

To reinforce the concept of the life cycle of an apple, we had an apple tasting.  Each child got a slice of a red apple and a slice of a green apple to taste.

After they ate their apples, they got to vote for which color they preferred.  To graphically represent their votes, we wrote their name on an apple of their choice and they glued it onto a large chart.  When the chart was full, we tallied the votes.  The winner: red!  We connected literacy and math.