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Five in a Row Plans "How to Make an Apple Pie and See the
World"
* Parents Needed for marked activities
* Sign Folders... distribute literature folders and travel passports
( http://www.letsplayyoga.com/fiar/lessons/fc_passport.pdf )
* Guessing Game (Apple/ Pie/ Cinnamon Smell) (When they guess apple
and/or pie/cinnamon,they go to hand painting)
* Hand Painting (Side of hand dipped in brown paint for tree, thumb in
green paint for leaves, pinkie finger in red paint for apples)
* Hand washing
Sit down - "buckle up your seatbelts
(We're going on a trip around the world)"
Ask where everyone would like to travel if they could go anywhere in the
world...write locations on pieces of paper to select from later
Seven Elements of a Story- go over them and have children
write 1st one (Characters) on folder page 1 (spider web)
Story Time - Have volunteer use miniature boat, plane, bicycle
for traveling to locations on wall map
Children place star stickers on their folder maps (page 2) while listening to
story
Italy: Foods Italy is famous for - pizza, spaghetti
France: notice Paris sign on train, Eiffel Tower in
background, bicycle is common transportation
Sri Lanka: pear-shaped island...have children pronounce name, cinnamon
comes from rainforest tree (find Mexico on map ---largest importer of cinnamon)
England: Notice cottages with flowers
and the castle...represents the good manners in England known for its royalty (kings and queens) and tea time
Jamaica:
Bananas grow in Jamaica along with sugar cane...reason for banana boat
Vermont: Where in the US do they grow apples
besides Vermont? (Washington State/Oregon/ Michigan)
Fall (or autumn) is harvest time for apple picking
Followed
by book discussion
Memory Game - have children do pantomime for modes of transportation...use laminated cards found
at http://www.letsplayyoga.com/fiar/lessons/match.htmWhat can be made with apples ~ go over apple items---(pie, cider,
jelly, etc.)
Go over apple sayings
Go over medicinal purposes of apples and cinnamon
Read facts sheet
about Johnny Appleseed
(Johnny Appleseed's birthday is September 26th)
Johnny Appleseed
book
Compass page
Do fractions with apples (set green apple slices, yellow slices
and red slices separately)
Go over pictures and flag of Sri Lanka ~ Show lamanated pictures of this country's scenery
and landscape...place in country folder (have children repeat this country's name) ( pass around a cinnamon stick to feel
and smell)
* Measurement and Chemistry ( ½ cup applesauce ½ cup cinnamon--- Mold into shapes)
* Apple Taste
Test
* Apple Prints
* Discuss egg carrying (give out eggs in sandwich baggie to take home...see how long they
last without breaking)
Put country stamps on passports
* Collect folders & passports/ Distribute handmade
apple trees/Give out apple poem to bring to Mom
Have a drawing for the next country trip
* Measure out apple
juice /apple newtons
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