Apples in the Tree Tops Literacy Bag
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Fun Apple Themed Homework
We put these apple related materials into backpacks for easy transportation and include a raccoon mascot with a journal to record the adventures that the raccoon will have in each child's home. Did you know that raccoons love to eat apples?
With Apples in the Treetop Literacy Bags, homework can be so much fun that children will beg to take their homework home. Homeschoolers will be delighted to take these bags on car trips or when visiting Grandma.
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What are Literacy Bags?
Suggested items to include in Apples in the Treetops Literacy Bags
Literacy Bags are a collection of related books and activities that children are allowed to take home to share with their families. Each literacy bag consists of a fiction and a non-fiction book related to the topic, a game and a list of suggested activities and a stuffed animal as well as a journal where the children can record the stuffed animal's adventures while visiting their home.
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Apple Seasons
Apple Trees through the Seasons
Photo Credit: From the Encyclopedia Infantil
Draw a picture of an apple tree without the leaves. Duplicate it and include a copy in your literacy bag. Children then paint or color the picture according to their favorite season. Include a set of water colors or crayons.
Apple Literacy Bags
Literacy Bags for the Apples in the Treetops Unit Study
Each bag has two books, a non-fiction book about apples and a story about apples. Then I add a couple of educational games that work on skills that the children are learning in reading or math. Finally I add a plush raccoon and a journal where the raccoon can record his adventures while visiting each of the children's houses. Did you know that raccoons love to eat apples?
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Children take these Apple Literacy Bags home and have a week to read the stories, play the games and write in the journal. Once they have returned the bag, the children share what they did with the raccoon. These literacy bags have proven to be so much fun for the children as well as their parents that the just beg to take their homework home.
Raccoons and Apples Literacy Bag
Apple Facts for Literacy Bags
Non-Fiction books about Apples
Include a non-fiction book about apples in each of the Apple Literacy Bags to reinforce your studies of apples in Science and Social Studies.
Raccoons love Apples
Raccoons for the Apples in the Treetops Unit study
Chester Raccoon is a delightful plush animal to add to your Apples in the Tree Tops Literacy Bag. We happen to have Chester as part of our unit study, The Kissing Hand. You could move Chester from your Kissing Hand Literacy Bag as you begin your Apple Unit Study or you could include any stuffed raccoon.
Apple Games
Apple Word Game
Learning to Spell Apple Words
Put Scrabble letters into separate containers such as Altoids Boxes with just the letters needed to spell a word your child is learning to spell. The child rearranges the letters to form the word.
Altoids Tins for the Apple Game
Apple Literacy Bag Games
Language Arts Games for the Apples in the Treetops Literacy Bags
Apple Games to Add to the Apples in the Tree Tops Literacy Bags
Though these are cherries, they do resemble apples. I have changed the title on my box to read Apples in the Treetoops. Children practice adding and subtracting apples from the trees which hold exactly 10 apples each. You can vary the game to practice place value, addition and subtraction or just plain counting.
Each of these lenses contains many more games that could be added to the Apples in the Tree Tops Literacy Bag.
The Diary of Raccoon's Adventures
A Journal of Apple Activities
Raccoon comes home with your child to visit and play lots of apple related games. Use this journal to record his adventures and then share them with the class when you return to school.
Each time the raccoon visits a new place, plays a game, or helps make an apple recipe, he tells of his adventures in his journal. This journal or diary can be written by the child or can be dictated to an adult or older child. Sharing the adventures with the rest of the children involved in the Apples in the Treetops Unit Study encourages them to write more and often. It also can spark ideas for further adventures and investigations.
The Diary of Raccoon's Adventures
A Journal of Apple Activities
Photo Credit: Reading Raccoon
From the Milpitas Public Library
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Raccoon comes home with your child to visit and play lots of apple related games. Use this journal to record his adventures and then share them with the class when you return to school.
Each time the raccoon visits a new place, plays a game, or helps make an apple recipe, he tells of his adventures in his journal. This journal or diary can be written by the child or can be dictated to an adult or older child. Sharing the adventures with the rest of the children involved in the Apples in the Treetops Unit Study encourages them to write more and often. It also can spark ideas for further adventures and investigations.
Apples have feelings too!
Apple Faces Literacy Bag
A Bag of Apple Faces! by itsmhars
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Before sending this Apple Face Literacy Bag home, read the book about Feelings to the children and then show them how to make various faces to show feelings. Have them look in a mirror to see their own faces as they demonstrate how they show their feelings. Finally show them how to use the dry erase marker as well as how to wipe off the faces.
1. Write words for feelings on apple shaped papers. (sad, happy, angry, surprised, confused, scared etc.)
2. Laminate these cards.
3. Children use the Dry Erase Marker to draw a face that matches the feeling word.
Note: Be sure to wipe off the faces before sending this Literacy Bag out again.
Apple Homework
Homework Options for the Apples in the Tree Tops Unit Study
Time spent with your child can be limited if they attend school and it seems that most of that time is filled with completing homework assignments. Literacy bags can make that time enjoyable for both parents and children. Because the stories are ones loved by the children and the activities are optional, homework doesn't take away from the pleasurable time spent with your child. Because all the materials are included in the bag, your child can take the bag anywhere in order to
Which kind of homework would you and your child choose?
Apple Literacy Bags with open ended activities that the parent and child can share together.
Apple Related Assignments required of every child.
Apple Games to add to your Apple Literacy Bag
More Apple Literacy Bags
Brainy Bundles are another form of Literacy Bags. They contain books and related activities.
Brainy Bundles
Tutti Fruity Brainy Bundle BB This bundle is geared to ages 4-8. It has Melissa and Doug cutting fruit set, Hi Ho Cherry-O game and two books from Mott's - A is for Apple and Apples Adds Up.0 points
Apple Themed Backpacks and Totes
Backpacks and Totes for the Apples in the Treetop Literacy Bags
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careermom
Apr 6, 2011 @ 2:46 pm | delete
- What a great idea.
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KarenTBTEN
Apr 4, 2011 @ 4:54 pm | delete
- Literacy bags are great -- Squidangel blessings!
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Evelyn_Saenz
Oct 8, 2010 @ 6:35 am | delete
- This lens is included in the Best Review - Top 10 Unit Studies With An Apple Theme
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tandemonimom Sep 24, 2010 @ 1:06 pm | delete
- Apples are great - anything with an apple on it automatically looks more cheerful! Love the apple-themed tote bags!
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SofiaMann
Sep 21, 2010 @ 10:20 am | delete
- Thanks for sharing these so interesting ideas. It is a valuable contribution.
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