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Great Groups An assortment of apple cutouts lends itself to two skill-stretching activities!

Make a few different sizes and colors of apple cutouts so there are 20 apples

in all. (See the patterns on page 6.) Then try the options below.

Sorting and classifying: Before students arrive on each of several days,

display the apples grouped by a secretly chosen attribute. As students arrive,

encourage them to study the display. Invite them to guess your sorting rule

during your morning group time.

Graphing: Have the class sort the apples and use them to complete a graph.

Then pose questions to help youngsters analyze the graph.

Look Twice!Addition and subtraction

Are there more or fewer apples now?

That’s the question students answer with

this addition and subtraction idea. To

begin, display several red circles (apples)

on a paper tree. Have a student identify

the number of apples and write it on the

board. Then have each youngster cover

his eyes as you add apples to the tree or

move apples from it. Next, ask students

to open their eyes and determine whether

there are more or fewer apples on the tree.

Have a youngster name the corresponding

operation. Then complete the number

sentence with student input.

Seed SavvyAddition

For this independent activity, a student needs a die, paper, 12 small

uncooked beans, and a copy of the apple workmat on page 7. She rolls

the die and makes a column on her workmat with that many beans. She

rolls the die again and makes a separate column with that number of

beans. Then she writes and solves the corresponding addition problem.

She continues with different problems as time allows.

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3 + 1 = 4

3 + 4 = 7

There are fewer apples on the

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Pick the Shapes!Using geometric figures to form different figures

Visual-spatial reasoning is at the core of this pattern block idea. Place at a

center student copies of page 4; red, green, blue, and yellow crayons; and the

following pattern blocks: one hexagon, two trapezoids, two rhombuses, and eight

triangles. A child uses the indicated number of blocks to fill each apple on his

paper. He traces the blocks and colors the tracings the corresponding colors.

After each child completes the activity, invite students to share their work. Then

guide youngsters to describe and compare the pattern block shapes.

Scrambled ApplesNumber order

Use die-cut apples or the patterns on page

5 to prepare this activity in a jiffy. Number

30 apple cutouts from 1 to 30, writing one

number per apple. Put the apple labeled 15

in the second row of a pocket chart. Display

the remaining apples in random order on a

drawing of a tree. To begin, ask a student to

“pick” the apple with the number 14. Then

have her put it in the pocket chart in numerical

order and explain how she knew where it

belongs. Continue with the remaining apples,

varying whether students find and place

numbers that come just before or just after the

numbers in the pocket chart and prompting

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