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Manufactured at Friesens Corporation Portage & Main Press CONTENTS Letter to Parents/Guardians 3 Day 4/Lesson 4 84 Books for Children 4 Day 5/Lesson 5 85 Mathematics 5 Weekly Poem 4 – Have You Ever Seen a Pumpkin? 87 1 ab Apple Patterning 5 Home-School Connection 87 2 abC Apple Patterning 9 Day 1/Lesson 1 88 3 Recognizing and Ordering Numbers From 1 to 10 11 Day 2/Lesson 2 88 4 Graphing Apples by Colour 15 Day 3/Lesson 3 90 5 Graphing Apples – Taste Test 20 Day 4/Lesson 4 91 6 Weighing Apples 24 Day 5/Lesson 5 91 7 Ordering Apples by Size 28 Additional Poems and Songs 94 e 8 Sorting Apples 32 Integrated Studies 96 9 aab Pumpkin/Ghost Patterning 36 1 Life Cycle of anl Apple Tree 96 10 Estimating the Circumference 40 2 Life Cpycle of a Pumpkin 101 11 Counting Forwards and Backwards From 1 to 10 43 Additional Integrated Studies 106 m 12 Counting Pumpkin Seeds 48 1 Making Applesauce 106 13 Graphing Pumpkin Faces 53 2 Making No-Bake Pumpkin Pie 106 14 Weighing Pumpkins a 58 3 Roasted Pumpkin Seeds 107 15 Ordering Pumpkins by Size 62 4 Pass the Pumpkin 107 16 Sorting Pumpkins s 66 5 Hot Pumpkin 107 Language Arts 70 6 Testing a Pumpkin – Will It Float? 107 Weekly Poem 1 – Ten Shiny Apples 70 7 Plant a Pumpkin Seed 107 Home-School Connection 70 8 Examining a Pumpkin Seed 108 Day 1/Lesson 1 71 9 Pin the Peduncle on the Pumpkin 108 Day 2/Lesson 2 71 10 It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 108 Day 3/Lesson 3 72 Centres 109 Day 4/Lesson 4 73 Apple: 109 Day 5/Lesson 5 74 Reading Centre 109 Weekly Poem 2 – Apple Treat 75 Writing/Language Centre 109 Home-School Connection 75 Arts & Crafts Centre 109 Day 1/Lesson 1 76 Discovery Centre 110 Day 2/Lesson 2 76 Mathematics Centre 110 Day 3/Lesson 3 77 Tactile Centre 110 Day 4/Lesson 4 78 Listening Centre 110 Day 5/Lesson 5 79 Dramatic Centre 111 Weekly Poem 3 – Jack O Happy 81 Pumpkin: 112 Home-School Connection 81 Reading Centre 112 Day 1/Lesson 1 82 Writing/Language Centre 112 Day 2/Lesson 2 82 Arts & Crafts Centre 112 Day 3/Lesson 3 83 Discovery Centre 113 Portage & Main Press Mathematics Centre 113 Tactile Centre 113 Listening Centre 114 Dramatic Centre 114 Big Book Ideas 115 1 So Many Apples Up on Top! 115 2 How Is Jack Feeling Today? 117 Sources 119 e l p m a s Portage & Main Press Dear Parents/Guardians, As we welcome the fall season, we move into the exciting unit, “Apples and Pumpkins.” Over the next several weeks, your child will be involved in a variety of activities, including: n creating apple patterns n graphing apples by colour and taste n weighing apples and pumpkins, using a balance scale n ordering apples and pumpkins by size n making apple prints n sorting apples and pumpkins, using a variety of sorting rules n estimating the circumference of a pumpkin n counting and estimating pumpkin seeds e n mixing red and yellow paint to create orange pumpkins l n sequencing the life cycle of an apple tree and the grpowth of a pumpkin n reciting apple and pumpkin poems and songs m Our Dramatic Centre will start out as a bakery filled with apple recipes and plastic baking ware to encourage role-aplaying and creativity. After that, the centre will change into a country store where the students can use baskets as they “shop” for plastic fruits and vegetables and hsarvest products (such as gourds and corn). The Listening Centre and Reading Centre will provide literature-rich environments filled with fiction and nonfiction books on apples and pumpkins. The Discovery Centre and Tactile Centre will continue to challenge students to question and wonder about the world around them. Other interesting apple and pumpkin activities will be at our Writing Language Centre and Mathematics Centre. Weekly poems will be sent home with your child. Don’t forget to review the poem and complete the home-school connection activities. Keep your eyes open for our new Big Books, which will be circulating throughout our kindergarten homes. Please feel free to add your comments at the end of the books. Our letters of the month are a for apple, p for pumpkin, and o for october. Our number of the month is 7. Your child will be working through a variety of activities that reinforce the proper formation of both letters and numbers. Thank you so much for your continued support. We look forward to another lively month on our Kindergarten Journey. Sincerely, Unit 2 • Apples and Pumpkins Portage & Main Press  Books for Children BOOk SuggESTIONS A Zoehfeld, K. Apples, Apples. New York: Festival pples Products, 2004. Anderson, C. Apple Orchard. Portmouth: Heinemann, 2005. p umpkins Carr, J. Dappled Apples. New York: Holiday House, Agran, R. Pumpkin Shivaree. Brooklyn: Handprint 2001. Books, 2003. Corwin, J. Big Red Apple. Toronto: Scholastic Brown, M. The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin. New York: Canada, 1999. HarperCollins, 2003. Faulkner, M. Day at the Apple Orchard. Toronto: Bunting, E. The Pumpkin Fair. Boston: Clarion Scholastic, 2005. Books, 1997. Gibbons, G. The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree. New York: Voyager Books, 1988. Dillon, J. Jeeb Scarecrow’s Pumpkin Patch. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. _____. Apples. New York: Holiday House, 2001. Folwler, A. It’s a Fruit, It’s a Vegetable, It’s a Hall, Z. The Apple Pie Tree. Toronto: Blue Sky Press, Pumpkin. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1995. 1996. p Hall, Z. It’s Pumpkin Time. Toronto: Scholastic Harshman, M. Red Are the Apples. Orlando: Canada, 2000. Harcourt Brace and Company, 2m001. Holub, J. The Garden That We Grew. New York: Hutchins, P. Ten Red Apples. New York: Greenwillow, Viking, 2001. 2000. Kroll, S. The Biggest Pumpkin Ever. New York: Hutchings, R. Pickinga Apples and Pumpkins. Holiday House, 1984. Toronto: Scholastic Canada, 2000. Levenson, G. Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden. Knudsen, sM. Autumn Is for Apples. New York: Berkeley: Tricycle Press, 2002. Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001. Lewis, K. The Runaway Pumpkin. London: Orchard Langston, L. Mile-High Apple Pie. New York: Red Books, 2003. Fox, 2005. McDonald, M. The Great Pumpkin Switch. London: Lerner, G. What’s So Terrible About Swallowing an Orchard Books, 1992. Apple Seed? New York: HarperCollins, 2001. McNamara, M. The Pumpkin Patch. New York: LeSieg, T. Ten Apples Up on Top! New York: Random Aladdin, 2003. House Books for Young Readers, 1961. Moore, E. Grandma’s Smile. New York: Lothrop, Lee Maestro, B. How Do Apples Grow? New York: & Shepard Books, 1995. HarperCollins Canada, 1993. Ray, M. Pumpkins: A Story for a Field. Orlando: Miller, V. Ten Red Apples. Boston: Candlewick Press, Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2001. 2002. Rockwell, A. Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night. New Naslund, G. Our Apple Tree. Brookfield: Roaring York: Walker and Company, 2001. Brook Press, 2005. Serfozo, M. Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin. New York: Princeman, M. How to Make an Apple Pie and See McElderry Books, 2001. the World. New York: Dragonfly Books, 1996. Silverman, E. Big Pumpkin. Toronto: Maxwell Rickert, J. Russ & the Apple Tree. Toronto: Monarch Macmillan Canada, 1992. Books of Canada, 1999. Sloat, T. Patty’s Pumpkin Patch. New York: Putnam’s, Robbins, K. Apples. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. 2002. Titherington, J. Pumpkin, Pumpkin. New York: Rockwell, A. Apples and Pumpkins. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1986. Aladdin Publishing Company, 2005. Wallace, N. Pumpkin Day! London: Cavendish, 2002. Slawson, M. Apple Picking Time. New York: White, L. Too Many Pumpkins. New York: Holiday Dragonfly Books, 1998. House, 1996. Spirin, G. Apple Pie. New York: Philomel Books, Yacowitz, C. Pumpkin Fiesta. New York: 2005. HarperCollins, 1998. Wellington, M. Apple Farmer Annie. New York: Zagwyn, D. The Pumpkin Blanket. Markham: Penguin, 2004. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1994.  Portage & Main Press Kindergarten Plus! Mathematics LESSON 1 ab APPLE PATTERNINg F ocus The students will identify, reproduce, extend, and create AB patterns using apple cutouts. m AteriAls n Apple Cutout (BLM 2.1.1) construction paper (red, green) n scissors n crayons e n n Apple Patterns activity sheet (BLM 2.1.2) l p p repArAtion n Make ten paper apples: Photocopy tmhe Apple Cutout. Cut out the apple, and trace five apples on red construction paper and five apples on You may wish to green construction paper. Cut out each apple. laminate the apple a n Photocopy the activity sheet Apple Patterns (one copy per student). cutouts for future use. s t l eAching the esson 1. Have the students sit in a large circle and watch you closely. Place one red apple in front of you. Next, place one green apple beside the red apple. Place a second red apple beside the green apple (see below). RED GREEN RED Say to the students: Let us see what we have so far. Say the colours with me: “red, green, red.” n Who can tell me what colour the next apple will be? n Select a student to add a green apple to the line of apple cutouts. 2. Continue this process until all ten apples have been placed in a straight line in the middle of the circle. Ask the students: What have we created with our red and green apples? (Answer: a pattern) n Unit 2 • Apples and Pumpkins Portage & Main Press  Explain to the students that, as a class, you have all worked together to create an apple pattern. Ask: What is the pattern we have created? (Answer: red apple, green apple, n red apple, green apple, etc.) F - s A ollow up tudent ctivity 1. Distribute a copy of the activity sheet Apple Patterns (BLM 2.1.2) to each student. 2. Explain to students that they are going to make their own apple Demonstrate how to colour patterns. in the apples (following the ab pattern) to create 3. Have students select two crayons of different colours and create a two-colour pattern. their apple pattern. e i xtending the deA e Have students use different-coloured apple cutouts (e.g., green and yellow) n to create new AB patterns. l p Have students use real apples to make an apple pattern. n n As the students learn them names of the apples, they can make an apple pattern, using apple names (e.g., McIntosh, Granny Smith, McIntosh, Granny Smith). a Provide additional objects in the classroom (e.g., coloured blocks, crayons, n colousred teddy bears, model cars) for the students to use to create their own patterns. s A tudent ssessment n Observe students’ ability to create and extend an AB pattern. Use the Rubric sheet, GBLM-2, to record your observations. Suggested achievement levels: Level 1 – completes and extends a simple pattern with assistance Level 2 – completes and extends a simple pattern with limited assistance (several minor errors) Level 3 – independently completes and extends a simple pattern with few errors Level 4 – independently completes and extends a simple pattern with no errors  Portage & Main Press Kindergarten Plus! Apple Cutout e l p m a s e. us m o o assr cl or d f e c u d o pr e e r b ay M 8. 0 0 2 ess Pr n ai M & e g a ort P © BLM 2.1.1 Portage & Main Press  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e _ _ _ _ s l _ __ n p _ _ r _ m _ e _ _ _ t _ t _ a a _ _ _ P _ _ s _ _ e _ _ _ l _ p _ _ _ p _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e. _ us _ m _ oo __ assr __ or cl _ d f _ ce _ du __ epro _ e r __ ay b _ M _ 8. _ 00 _ ess 2 : Pr e n ai m M & a ge a N ort P ©  Portage & Main Press BLM 2.1.2