Language Arts Lessons

Pumpkin Investigation
Students use their senses to describe the inside and outside of a pumpkin, then make a book.

Picking Apples
Students learn about different ways to pick apples and invent an apple-picking machine.

Pumpkin Unit
Using Kid Pix Studio Deluxe and the book Pumpkin, Pumpkin, the students will create their own pumpkin stories on the computer.

Hooray for Apples and Pumpkins!
Students will listen to a story about apples and pumpkins such as Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell, observe an actual apple, and pumpkin and make comparisons.

Children’s Books About Apples
These books can be used with a thematic unit about apples.

Pumpkin Text Set Bibliography
Since there are a number of excellent books about pumpkins, this is an
effort to compile a meaningful list of these books in different categories.

The Little Red House With No Doors and No Windows and a Star Inside
Share the story of the "Little Red House" which will have your class on a quest for a red house with no doors or windows and a star inside -- an apple!