Description
Kick off Apple Week or your September apple unit with this Apple No Prep Activities packet, designed for kindergarten and 1st Grade students! With 102 print-and-go worksheets of hands-on math, literacy, and science, it covers everything from counting apple seeds and beginning sounds to the parts of an apple, the apple life cycle, and how apple trees change through the seasons. Johnny Appleseed activities, apple crafts, and a sink or float apple investigation are included too, so a full week of apple learning is ready for you to print.
This is your go-to packet for apple week, apple day, and Johnny Appleseed Day.
Why Teachers Love This Packet
- Math, literacy, science, and crafts in one place
- No prep for you: print the page and hand it out
- Easy to differentiate across K-1, from counting to 10 through to comparing numbers to 20, and from beginning sounds through to word family reading
- Works as a full apple week or as single pages pulled out whenever you need something seasonal
How to Use This Packet
These apple activities are ideal for:
- Morning work and bell ringers
- Math centers and literacy centers
- Science centers and apple investigations
- Small groups
- Early finishers and independent practice
- Sub plans and homework packets
- Johnny Appleseed Day and fall theme days
Skills Covered
Math
- Counting, number recognition, and number words to 10
- Numbers to 20, number order, and missing numbers
- Ten frames, tally marks, and subitizing
- Place value to 20
- Comparing numbers to 10 and 20 (greater than, less than)
- Making 5, making 10, and number bonds
- Addition and subtraction to 10
- Skip counting by 5s and 10s
- Measurement, patterns, telling time to the hour, and coins
- Graphing, 2D shapes, and sorting by size
Literacy
- Uppercase and lowercase letter recognition and formation
- Letter matching and missing letters
- Syllables
- Beginning, middle, and ending sounds
- Short vowel word families across all five vowels
- Sight words
- Sentence building and simple writing
- Sequencing and fact writing
Science
- Parts of an apple
- Life cycle of an apple
- Seasons of an apple tree
- Five senses observation
- Sink or float investigation with hypothesis, experiment, and conclusion
What’s Included (102 activity pages)
Apple Math Worksheets (46 pages)
- Count and color, apple counting, and apple seed counting
- Number word matching and missing number pages
- Number tracing 1-10 and 11-20
- Apple ten frames, tally counting, and number picture puzzles
- Apple tree number sorts, numbers 1-10 (5 pages)
- Color by code 1-10 and 11-20
- Comparing numbers to 10 and to 20, plus greater than and less than
- Spin and color place value blocks 11-20
- Apple sale coin counting
- Making 5, making 10, and number bonds to 10
- Domino addition, apple pie subtraction, subtraction from 5 and from 10
- Skip counting by 5s and 10s
- Apple measurement (2 pages)
- Apple patterns, color by pattern and cut and paste (2 pages)
- Telling time to the hour (2 pages)
- Apple size sorting
- Count and graph, favorite apple treat graph, and spin and graph
- 2D shape properties and color by shape
Apple Literacy Worksheets (40 pages)
- Uppercase and lowercase alphabet charts
- Missing letters, uppercase and lowercase
- Apple letter match cut and paste, A to Z (4 pages)
- Letter tracing, uppercase and lowercase
- Color by code sorting: letters and numbers, uppercase and lowercase, letters and words
- Syllable counting
- Beginning sounds (2 pages), middle sounds, and ending sounds
- Color by word family (16 pages): ag, am, at, ab, an, ap, ed, en, et, ig, in, it, ib, ip, ix, ob, og, ot, od, op, ox, ug, un, ut
- Sight word color by code (2 pages)
- Apple sentence scrambles: Bobbing for Apples, Apple Picking, Eating Apples
- Apple pie sequencing writing page
Johnny Appleseed Activities (5 pages)
- Apples KWL chart
- Johnny Appleseed KWL chart
- Parts of Johnny Appleseed labeling page
- Johnny Appleseed sentence scramble
- Johnny Appleseed facts writing page
Apple Science Activities (5 pages)
- Parts of an apple labeling worksheet
- Apple life cycle
- Seasons of an apple tree
- Apple observations using the five senses
- Apple sink or float investigation recording worksheet
Apple Crafts, Coloring, and Fun Pages (6 pages)
- Apple directed drawing
- Apple dot to dot
- Apple word search
- Build an apple craft (2 options)
- Build an apple tree craft
If you are planning an apple unit and want activities that are low prep, flexible, and genuinely fun for students, this packet covers apple math, apple literacy, apple science, Johnny Appleseed, and apple crafts in one resource. With 102 pages, you have enough to run a full apple week and still have pages left for centers, early finishers, and sub days through the rest of fall.
