Meet Apple-onia!- Lesson Plan

Sometimes a blog post comes across my path, and I am blown away by the creativity of the one who inspired it. This post is more of an incredible lesson plan than a craft, but does involve some ‘crafty’ things. Apple-onia is a tool that this mom uses to help her children create a story, solve problems, explore emotions as well as the science and nature of apples, and finally, solve puzzles. I encourage you to read all 6 posts on her blog so you can see the entire journey that Apple-onia went on with this adorable family. The first post from The Nature of Grace is where you can get an overview. Click here, the Applo-onia link, to pull up all the posts from the week. You will not be disappointed, and you will be inspired to do something this creative with your children!

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Apple Learning Activities

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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