Students will sort the apples into the correct basket according to how many syllables are in the word. Students will work with words that have 1, 2, 3, or 4 syllables. This makes a great hands on center for students needed phonological awareness practice in counting syllables.

What is Included:

• Apple Basket Sorting Mats for 1-4 syllables
• Apple picture cards

These syllable sorting mats make a great hands on literacy center for students to practice counting syllables in words. The bold, easy to recognize pictures allow students to count the syllables of each word independently.

How to Use:

Students will lay out the 4 syllable mats and then sort the apple cards into the correct basket according to how many syllables are in the word.

More Apple Themed Resources

Apple Tracing Lines

Apple Alphabet Tracing

Apple Counting Mats to 20

Help each apple find its basket by tracing the path from the apple to the basket on these tracing cards with a fall or apple theme. There are two sets of tracing line with 44 cards each (for a total of 88 cards) with a variety of tracing lines including curves, loops, zig zags and more!

These tracing cards give students practice with handwriting by having them trace a variety of lines. They help guide students to follow the line from left to right to mimic how students will eventually learn to write words and sentences and these lines allow students to practice pen control.

There are two sets of cards in this product:

• The first set has a decorative boarder where you can print on white paper.
• The second set has no border so you can print on colored paper and save on ink!

Ways to Use

• Writing Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Write and Wipe Activity
• Morning Tub or Basket
• Independent Center
• Small Group Activity
• Table Top Center

These fine motor cards and perfect for a writing center. By laminating each card or placing the full pages in page protectors you can create a write and wipe activity and use them over and over.

You can turn these cards into a fine motor center by adding mini erasers or other small objects for students to place along the line. Add tongs for more fine motor fun! You can also use cotton swabs and paint to dot the lines.

Skills Targeted:

• Following a line by tracing
• Moving from left to write when writing
• Pen control
• Hand eye coordination
• Building fine motor skills

These tracing cards and the markers or manipulatives used to complete them can be stored in a pencil box for easy set up, clean up and storage.

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Pouch Top Alphabet Mats

This fall themed letter and number seek and find activity makes a great hands on literacy or math center for the preschool or kindergarten classroom. Students will have fun tracing letters and finding numbers with these apple themed letter recognition and number recognition matching mats. Each letter and number mat is available in color and in black and white.

What Is Included

• 1 Capital Letter Mat
• 1 Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Capital and Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Number 0-10 Mat
• 1 Number 0-20 Mat
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Cards
• Number Cards 0-20

Types of Activities

• Create a hands on literacy or math center by placing the mats and cards in a center.
• Create a write and wipe activity by laminating the mats or placing them in page protectors and providing a dry erase marker.
• Create a sensory bin by adding the letter or number cards inside a sensory bin for students to find.
• Write the Room activity where the teacher hides the cards around the room and students find them to write or trace on their mats.
• Find and Cover activity where students draw a card then use various magnets, mini erasers, or bingo chips to cover the correct letter or number.
• Find and Dot activity where students draw a card then use a bingo marker to dot the correct letter or number.

By having a variety of ways to complete, students will stay engaged as they look for and find each letter or number on the letter mats.

Skills Assessed with these learning mats:

• Letter Recognition with capital and lowercase letters
• Number Recognition from 0-20
• Handwriting Practice for letters and numbers

The mats to this activity are no prep. You simply print and hand out or place in the desired center. The mats can be laminated or placed in page protectors for a reusable activity. The cards are low prep, as they just need to be printed and cut apart. The cards can also be laminated for durability.

Check out this link for other Alphabet Activities

Alphabet Playdough Mats Bundle

Alphabet Cards and Puzzles Bundle

Letter Recognition Games

Practice identifying 2D shapes with these apple themed shape centers and worksheets. Students will identify shapes with hands on activities, worksheets, seek and find shapes, identify shapes with clip cards, match shapes and more with these centers.

What is included:

• Shape Cards for Posters or Wall Display
• Shapes Clip Cards
• 3 Shape Sorts
• Shape Matching Cards
• Shape Matching Mats
• Playdough Mats
• Seek and Find Mats and Cards
• 6 Shape Sorting Worksheets

Shapes Included

• Arrow*
• Circle
• Crescent
• Crest*
• Decagon*
• Diamond
• Heart
• Heptagon*
• Hexagon
• Parallelogram
• Pentagon
• Nonagon*
• Octagon
• Oval
• Rectangle
• Rhombus
• Semicircle
• Square
• Star
• Trapezoid
• Triangle

*These shapes are only included on the seek and find mat.

Other Shape Sorting Activities Include:

Shape Sorting with Spiders

These apple preschool worksheets are perfect for preschoolers to complete during the fall time. These worksheets focus on concepts like letter recognition, counting, simple math concepts, handwriting, and so much more! Check out the preview for examples of the apple themed worksheets included.

Activities Included In this Packet

• Letter and Number Mazes
• Emergent Reader
• Roll and Cover Page
• Build It Up! Page
• Cut and Paste Counting Page
• Color the 5 Frame
• Color the 10 Frame
• Picture Addition
• Graphing Page
• Missing Number and Letter Pages
• Greater Than and Less Than
• Letter Matching Cut and Paste
• Put Numbers 1-10 in Order
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Sorting
• Line, Shape, Letter and Number Tracing
• Counting Coloring Pages
• Roll and Color Dice Center Game
• Cut and Paste Counting Page
• Build an Apple Craft

When to Use:

• Independent practice
• Morning Work
• Homework
• Emergency Sub Plans

All of the worksheets in this packet are no-prep. The teacher just needs to print out the pages and give them to students to complete.

More Apple Activities:

Lets Be Scientists with Apples

Apple Letter Identification Game

Apple Counting Mats

Where is the Worm? This apple themed alphabet game is great for students who are practicing letter sounds or letter recognition. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for a Preschool, Pre-k or Kindergarten classroom.

Ways to Use

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific letters for struggling students

How to Play

Where's the Worm? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a worm is hidden behind an apple. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the worm is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the worm is behind the apple, then the worm must be hidden again to play further. If the worm is not behind the apple, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

More Alphabet Centers and Activities

Hands On Alphabet Mats

Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

These fall candy corn alphabet clip cards are the perfect way for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters with an apple theme. Students can also practice building fine motor skills by using clips to mark each letter.

What is Included:

There are 4 clip cards for each letter of the alphabet. Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.

How to Use:

Students will take one clip card, look at the letter on the apple card and then clip the letter that matches. The teach may choose to use small manipulatives, like mini erasers, bingo chips or counters to mark each correct response. The cards can also be laminated for students to use dry erase markers to mark correct answers.

Where to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

Skills Assessed

• Recognizing and identifying capital and lowercase letters
• Matching a capital or lowercase letter to their letter counterpart

These apple letter clip cards are a low prep option for teachers to give to students to complete. The cards simply need to be printed and cut apart before being placed inside a learning station.

These differentiated apple counting cards allow preschool and kindergarten students to practice counting up to 20 with tens frames and manipulatives. Students also gain practice with number recognition and reading number words. By placing manipulatives on the mats, students practice one to one correspondence.

There are two sets of counting mats:

• Counting mats for students to place manipulatives without guiding marks
• Counting mats for students to place manipulatives with guiding marks

Two Sizes for mats:

• Half page sized mats for math centers
• Smaller cards for tasks boxes

When to Use

• Morning tubs
• Morning baskets
• Tasks box activity
• Math center
• Individual counting practice
• Small group math activity
• Table top activity

Practice handwriting, letter formation, number formation and drawing shapes with this apple themed writing activity.

What is Included

• Capital and Lowercase Letter Cards
• Number 1-20 Cards
• Shape Tracing Cards

When to Use

• Early Finishers
• Writing Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Morning Basket
• Morning Tubs
• Literacy Center (Letters)
• Math Center (Numbers and Shapes)
• Small Group Activity
• Independent Work Station
• Table Top Activity

More Handwriting Activities

Prewriting Cards

Handwriting Practice with Boxes

Themed Handwriting and Vocabulary Cards

This preschool apple math centers packet provides hands on math centers that focus on counting and number recognition up to the number 10. Each math center provides a unique way to practice counting to 10 and centers can be differentiated to accommodate different levels of mastery.

These apple preschool math centers not only assess the students ability to count but also work on fine motor skills, number word recognition, number sequencing and one to one correspondence.

These apple themed math activities go great with a general apple theme, a fall theme, a unit about Johnny Appleseed, or during a study on fruits.

Activities Included:

• Counting Clip Cards
• Counting Puzzles
• Sequencing Puzzles
• Matching Cards
• Playdough Mats
• Mini Eraser Mats
• Build it Up Mat
• Count and Match Mats

Types of Uses

• Task Boxes
• Math Centers
• Small Group Activities
• Morning Tubs or Baskets
• Table Top Centers

Digital Activity

Apple Counting to 10 Boom Cards

Let's Be Scientists with Apple Experiments! This packet contains two experiments about apples. Experiment 1: Can Apples Sink or Float (whole and parts of the apple)? Experiment 2: What happens to an apple under different conditions? Each experiment includes a detailed instruction sheet with materials lists and step by step directions for the experiment There is a recording page for students to make predictions and record the results of the project. Also provided are journal pages for students to write why they think the results happened the way they did. Journal pages are differentiated where appropriate. Are you looking for other apple themed activities? Be sure to check out the following: Apple Themed Activities and Centers for Pre-K and Kindergarten

These apple themed letter and number cards and puzzles are a great fall activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.