Apple Life Cycle Printable Booklet
With apple season just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to dive into planning your apple preschool theme. One activity you should definitely include would be this apple life cycle printable booklet and class book. Studying the life cycle of an apple tree is a great addition to your fall preschool activities.
Beyond describing the stages of an apple tree’s life, this apple printable book actively engages preschoolers by posing thoughtful questions. These questions help preschoolers think deeply about the topic and relate it to their own experiences.
Life Cycle of An Apple Tree
This interactive resource not only teaches children about the stages of an apple tree’s life but also encourages them to think critically and make connections to their own experiences.
Each page of the apple life cycle printable booklet features informative text describing a specific phase of the apple tree’s life cycle.
But it doesn’t stop there; it includes thought-provoking questions that invite preschoolers to reflect on what they’ve learned. These questions encourage active participation, allowing students to share their thoughts and insights with other students or their parents.
This apple life cycle printable booklet is in black and white, so it can easily be printed and colored in like an apple coloring page.
This versatile resource aligns with our other fall preschool activities. We like to add it to our Apples and Pumpkins Preschool Centers and our Apple Activity Pack.
Life Cycle Lesson Plans For Preschool
One of the things I love most about this booklet is that it is great for a range of skills and abilities. I have included helpful ideas to utilize it in a lesson plan format.
Preschoolers who can’t read can benefit, as well as kiddos even in 2nd grade or 3rd grade. The following ideas can be used from preschool to third grade, depending on the skills level of your class.
Dictated Answers
As an exercise in writing, record the children’s responses to the questions on each page on a whiteboard. Invite the children to read the response back to you, pointing to each word to demonstrate one to one correspondence in reading.
Search for Specific Words
Older students can search the text for targeted words, such as sight words or science-related words like apple, sprout or blossom.
These words can be copied for writing or spelling practice, added to a word wall, or they can be highlighted making them easy to recognize while reading.
Comparing Texts
Children who have read more than one book about the apple life cycle can compare texts, pointing out matching pictures in each book.
When doing this with a partner, children have the opportunity to not only share their reading experiences, but they also develop language skills by talking about the text with others.
Check out our free apple lesson plans for preschool for even more hands on activities ideas for learning about apples!
Life Cycle of an Apple Worksheets
Apple Life Cycle
How does an apple tree grow? We’ve got the basics from seed to fruit in this handy and quick explanation!
- Seed Stage: Plant the apple seeds and cover with soil. With sunlight and water, the apple seeds will soon form tiny roots.
- Tree Stage: The seeds that were planted begin to peek up from below the soil as tiny sprouts. Time to water those sprouts and let the sunshine help the sprouts grow. Did you know it can take anywhere from three to ten years for an apple tree to be full grown?
- Bud Stage: Once the apple tree becomes an adult tree (around year five) it will begin to produce buds.
- Blossom Stage: The buds will begin to produce flower blossoms. These flower blossoms are usually white or pink and will bloom for about a month. Once the blossoms are pollinated, it takes about 7-14 days to begin producing apples!
- Fruit Stage: It usually takes between 5- 6 months for the apples to be ready to harvest. The apple season typically runs August through October, depending on the apple variety. We can’t wait to pick a tasty apple right off the tree!
Life Cycle of an Apple Printable
- Apple Life Cycle Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Apple Life Cycle Printable Pack
- How Does an Apple Grow? Cut and Paste Worksheet
Apple Life Cycle Books for Preschoolers
Looking for books to show all the stages of those beautiful apple trees? We have the perfect picture books full of photographs of the apple life cycle. Ideal for preschool and kindergarten, these books are full of fun facts and apple magic!
Each page also features a few lines of text describing that stage of the life cycle of an apple tree. Each page also has a picture for the children to color.
Apple Life Cycle Printable
This life cycle of an apple booklet is a must-add to your apples and pumpkins preschool lesson plans.
Preschoolers love reading the book they worked so hard to color and teachers and parents love the descriptive text that teaches about the apple life cycle.
What’s Included
The printable booklet includes twelve pages of black and white printable booklet. It includes a cover page for preschoolers to color and write their name.
The printable also comes with a full color, full page class size booklet for teachers to print off and read aloud during circle time.
How to Teach Apple Life Cycle
I like to introduce the concept of the apple life cycle with the full color class book. I read this to my preschoolers during circle time.
This book offers large, full color pictures of each stage of an apple life cycle to help young readers really visualize what takes place.
They learn how the tree starts as a tiny seed, how apples grow and emerge over time, about the parts of an apple tree, and so much more!
But my kids loved the questions on each page.
The questions draw on their personal experiences while relating the content to the knowledge they already have.
This book offers a unique opportunity for preschoolers to think and ask questions.
Younger preschoolers and even toddlers also benefit from the questions, allowing opportunities to talk and develop speech skills.
The student version is exactly the same as the class version, with the exception that it is in a smaller booklet size and in black and white.
This allows the preschoolers to develop their fine motor skills while coloring in the pictures. It also could be used as an informal comprehension assessment since it is interactive.
Once assembled and colored, preschoolers can “read” their apple booklet over and over again. And the questions at the end of each page are the perfect way for parents to interact with their children while reading it at home.
Because of the questions in the booklet that make it interactive, this printable can be used like apple worksheets for older students.
Using crafts is another really fun way to teach preschoolers and kindergarteners about the life cycle of an apple tree. Here are some creative crafts that are designed to help students remember everything they have learned in their apple preschool theme.
Life Cycle Worksheets for Kindergarten
Looking to learn more about life cycles of other plants and animals? We’ve got some awesome life cycle ideas for learners of all ages!
- Must Try Life Cycle Activities for Kindergarten
- Free Life Cycle Pumpkin Activities
- Free Pumpkin Life Cycle Hat
- Plant Life Cycle Activities
Life Cycle of an Apple Activities
- From Seed to Apple Tree Lesson Plan
- Life Cycle of an Apple Tree Lesson Plan
- Apple Life Cycle Activity
For even more apple fun, grab our apple activity pack and our apples and pumpkins center pack! It’s time to bring pumpkin life cycle into the mix too!
Get Your Apple Life Cycle Free Printable
This interactive booklet goes way beyond a simple apple life cycle worksheet! From apple seed to apple tree, to fruit, your kiddos will love learning the step-by-step process!
This is the perfect addition to all of your fun, fall activities. Be sure to grab your copy today!
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
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