As the fall season approaches there are many exciting changes that happen all around. Delicious food scents the air, leaves change color, and the air become cool and crisp.
Preschoolers love any type of hands on learning. Apples provide an excellent educational opportunity. Study the science of growing and picking apples, taste the variety of apple types, cook (encouraging children to follow directions and measure i.e. math) different recipes with apples as the main ingredient, build towers with apple pieces and marshmallows (engineering), or paint with apples creating a star shape.
Title: I Eat Apples
Author: Mary Lindeen
Publisher: Lernerclassroom
Copyright: 2016
ISBN: 978-1512412116
Age range: 3-8
I Eat Apples in Fall by Mary Lindeen is a delightful non-fiction book that explains the basic concepts of size, shape, and color of apples found in an orchid. This simple and easy to understand book about apples is an excellent choice for children learning to read or as a read aloud to a group of 2-4 year olds learning about apples. Children will be drawn into the colorful visuals and simple but inviting text.
Non-fiction reading incorporates a different aspect of learning then fiction. Glossaries, index, information boxes, and further reading lists are all tools of learning. Children will learn through simple text and the rudimentary layout of a nonfiction title in I Eat Apples. Introducing young children to information literacy and to encourage children to explore the world around them.
A similar title that would be an excellent pair along entitled I See Fall Leaves by Mari Schuh explores color and shape of fall leaves.
So many fun STEM apple activities, so little time! These two websites are full of fun STEM activities involving apples that preschool aged children will discover that learning is fun!
This book would be so fun to read before a field trip to an orchard or just to learn more about Fall! You make a great point about teaching youth to read nonfiction when you say, "Glossaries, index, information boxes, and further reading lists are all tools of learning." I think this book would be a good one to teach those skills and also a good one for teaching media literacy like how to view and analyze images.
ReplyDeleteI liked that you added a read-alike option, as well as resources for STEM activities. I feel like this book would be a good addition to any library, and would be a great book to use as a base for programming.
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