Fall Trees and Apples - Video 2 of 2
Summary
TLDRThe video captures a lively and engaging classroom experience centered around an apple orchard-themed unit. The teacher creatively integrates hands-on activities like apple bowling, bobbing for apples, and a hayride relay race. Each activity incorporates motor skills, math, color identification, and letter recognition while keeping students entertained and engaged. The students work on their fine and gross motor skills, problem-solving, and communication through interactive tasks. The lesson is designed to be fun, inclusive, and educational, emphasizing individualized learning objectives and making every moment count in their development.
Takeaways
- 🍎 The teacher plans fun and engaging field trips, such as visiting an apple orchard, to complement learning units.
- 🎳 One activity is 'Apple Bowling,' where students use apples as bowling balls to knock down pins and then perform a simple math problem by counting and adding the pins they knocked down.
- 🖐 The apple bowling activity helps students work on gross and fine motor skills, as well as math skills like counting and number identification.
- 🔤 Another activity, 'Bobbing for Apples,' involves matching letters on apples to the first letter of the students’ names, promoting letter recognition and fine motor skills.
- 🚜 The 'Hayride Relay Race' activity lets students race while collecting colored apples from trees, focusing on motor skills and color identification.
- 🎯 Activities are carefully designed to incorporate a variety of learning goals such as math, literacy, gross motor, fine motor, and vision skills.
- 📋 The teacher emphasizes embedding IEP objectives within fun, themed activities to keep students engaged while working on individual goals.
- 🏆 Prizes are used to reward students for participation in activities, with apple-related treats like apple juice or applesauce as special rewards.
- 📚 The teacher’s focus is on creating differentiated instruction that meets each child’s unique needs by embedding learning into playful activities.
- 🎉 The lesson ends with a reflection on the importance of celebrating small wins, as even tiny achievements can be significant for the students.
Q & A
What is the primary theme of the unit discussed in the script?
-The primary theme of the unit is an apple orchard, where students engage in activities related to apples, such as apple bowling, bobbing for apples, and a hayride relay race.
How does the teacher incorporate physical activity into the lesson?
-The teacher incorporates physical activity through games like apple bowling, where students roll apples to knock down pins, and a hayride relay race, where they collect apples while racing. These activities focus on gross and fine motor skills.
How does the teacher use apple bowling to teach math?
-During apple bowling, students knock down pins and then count the number of pins they knocked down. They are encouraged to perform basic addition by combining the results of two turns and identifying the correct total.
What sensory and motor skills are targeted in the apple-related activities?
-The activities target gross and fine motor skills, such as standing and rolling apples, reaching for apples, and using nets to collect apples. Sensory skills, like visual tracking and tactile exploration, are also emphasized.
How does the teacher make the lesson inclusive for all students?
-The teacher adapts the activities for students with different physical abilities by allowing them to use walkers, standers, or wheelchairs during tasks. The teacher encourages all forms of participation, such as using verbal cues, eye blinks, or gestures to communicate.
What is the educational purpose of the bobbing for apples activity?
-The bobbing for apples activity helps students identify and match letters, particularly the first letters of their names, which reinforces letter recognition and matching skills. It also encourages students to use fine motor skills by reaching into the water with nets.
How does the teacher ensure that students are engaged during the lesson?
-The teacher ensures engagement by making the activities fun, interactive, and relevant to the apple orchard theme. The teacher uses praise and encouragement throughout the activities, acknowledging students' efforts and participation.
How does the teacher encourage independent participation from the students?
-The teacher encourages independent participation by giving students choices and asking them to indicate their preferences using voice, gestures, or eye contact. Students are also given opportunities to assist with setting up the activities.
What type of reinforcement does the teacher provide during the lesson?
-The teacher provides positive reinforcement through verbal praise, high-fives, and special rewards, such as apple-themed prizes like apple juice or applesauce during the final prize distribution.
What is the significance of the final apple-picking activity in the lesson?
-The final apple-picking activity allows students to experience the key aspect of an apple orchard—picking apples. They practice identifying numbers and receive prizes, making it a fun and interactive conclusion to the unit.
Outlines
🍎 Fun Apple Orchard Field Trip Introduction
The video begins with an introduction to an apple orchard-themed field trip, which is part of a larger learning unit. The teacher talks about how the field trip incorporates various fun and engaging activities. The first activity introduced is 'Apple Bowling,' where students bowl using an apple instead of a bowling ball. The teacher encourages students to interact with the apple, describing its colors and textures while guiding them through the steps of the game.
🎳 Counting with Apple Bowling
The activity continues as Maurice, one of the students, takes his turn bowling with the apple. The teacher helps him with counting and recognizing numbers based on the pins knocked down. The focus is on engaging students with counting, addition, and number recognition. The activity encourages fine and gross motor skills, as students stand or use walkers while rolling the apple to knock down pins.
🍏 Bobbing for Apples with Letters
The next activity is 'Bobbing for Apples,' where each apple has a letter written on it. The students match the letters to their own names, developing letter recognition skills. The teacher emphasizes the importance of visual engagement, guiding students to find and identify the letter of their first name on the apples.
🚜 Hayride Relay and Racing for Apples
A hayride relay race is introduced, where students race in wagons to pick apples from 'trees' and bring them back to their bins. The activity incorporates fine motor skills, color identification (red, green, yellow apples), and a sense of competition as students race against each other.
🏅 Hayride Results and Counting Apples
After the hayride race, the teacher helps the students count the apples they've collected. Students are encouraged to reach, grab, and place the apples in their baskets while counting aloud. The focus is on motor skills and reinforcing basic counting.
🎁 Prizes and Reflection on Apple Orchard Activities
The final segment involves a prize-giving ceremony based on the numbers of apples each student picked. The teacher spins a spinner, and students receive a choice between apple juice or applesauce as a prize. The teacher reflects on the importance of making learning fun and engaging, even when incorporating educational goals and individual learning objectives.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Apple Orchard
💡Apple Bowling
💡Math Problem
💡Fine Motor Skills
💡Bobbing for Apples
💡Letter Recognition
💡Hayride Relay Race
💡Color Identification
💡Tactile Learning
💡Communication Skills
Highlights
The unit includes an apple orchard field trip experience, incorporating tactile and motor-skill-building activities for children.
Apple bowling is the first activity, where children use apples as bowling balls to knock down pins, promoting gross motor skills and math learning.
Each student takes turns rolling an apple, and the number of pins knocked down is used to create a simple math problem to enhance counting and number identification.
Children use different forms of communication, such as hand-raising, eye-blinking, or speaking, to indicate when they're ready to take their turn.
The activity encourages students to work on reaching, grasping, and fine motor control by aiming the apple at the pins.
Bobbing for apples helps children work on fine motor skills, vision skills, and letter recognition as they identify letters on apples that correspond to their names.
Students race each other to find apples with the letter of their first name, improving letter-matching skills and early literacy.
The hayride relay race simulates a real apple orchard experience, where children race to collect apples from trees, working on color recognition and physical coordination.
Students identify apples by color (red, green, and yellow), reinforcing color identification while participating in a fun, competitive activity.
Throughout the activities, gross and fine motor skills are emphasized as students reach, grasp, and manipulate objects.
In the final activity, students pick apples from a designated tree, then identify the numbers written on the apples, integrating math skills and number recognition.
Children are rewarded with prizes such as apple juice or applesauce based on a randomized spinner game, further engaging them in the learning experience.
Activities like the apple orchard theme are designed to be fun and tactile, ensuring that learning is engaging and accessible to all students.
Thematic learning experiences are tailored to meet individual education plan (IEP) objectives, embedding various skills such as communication, motor skills, and math into engaging activities.
Teachers adapt lessons in real-time based on students' responses, seizing moments to reinforce specific skills or IEP goals as needed.
Transcripts
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you
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the apple orchard field trip is kind of
the into the whole unit that we have and
in general when I plan units a lot of
times I try to plan some sort of field
trip type experience or you know kind of
a big fun event that kind of has all
different stations or centers or lots of
different things that they get to do and
we will usually transform some other
room into something different alright
guys guess what we're in our apple
orchard today did you look around and
see all the trees and the apples
did you see there's a hayride we got all
kinds of fun stuff to do in our apple
orchard today and our first activity is
going to be apple bowling we're gonna go
bowling but we're gonna use something
special for our bowling guess what we're
not gonna use the bowling ball we're
going to use an apple look we're gonna
use an apple you say Apple good job
we're gonna use an apple it's a ball
we're gonna roll it on the floor can you
touch the Apple can you touch let's
touch like this you ready Apple that's
an apple look Maddy
I've got an apple can you look good yeah
we're gonna roll it on the floor and do
some bowling today you ready to roll
let's look at the Apple ready to touch
reach out and touch look this Apple is
red it's got some green on it and it's
round like a ball we're gonna go bowling
with it today yeah it's gonna be fun
look Maurice an Apple Apple you know
that sign you do Apple that's right
Apple look Apple good looking William I
like how you're looking I like how
you're reaching good job so we're gonna
go bowling with an apple we're gonna
roll it on the floor and see how many
pins you can
down so everyone when you get up here
and it's your turn
we're gonna have the pins on the floor
you're gonna do one turn and we're gonna
see how many pins you knock down and
we'll put it on our board and then
you're gonna have another turn and we'll
see how many pins you knock down that
time and we're gonna add them together
and we're gonna do a math problem okay
so who might want to go first who wants
to do the first bowling you can use your
voices to let me know that you want to
turn you could raise your hand you could
blink your eyes would you like to go
first
would you like to go first
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mm-hmm would you like a turn first do
you want to turn would you like to go
first show them how to do it you tell us
what what you want me what do you want
from me would you like the Apple turn
you want to turn okay let's get our pin
setup ready I'm gonna set up and you're
gonna do some bowling here we go yes
all right Maurice come on down see how
many you can bowl down all right you're
gonna try to hit those pins right there
you gonna roll it on the floor
ready oh man you didn't get any the
first time let's try again
try and get him right here okay let's
try again see I'm gonna help you aim
something okay just try and get it right
there at those pins say 1 2 3 throw it
oh so close let's get a little closer
and try again
that's funny all right let's try again
well right there say 1 2 3
you got some down let's put some pins up
there and see how many okay let that be
your first roll won't roll again okay so
let's see can you put the pins up for
how many not down over here three four
see look that's four you knock down one
two three four you think you can knock
down these other two think you can let's
see if you can all right get your Apple
back try and hit those two oh man you
didn't get um all right this is gonna be
your last turn and then we're gonna do
our problem okay try and get those right
there little shorter throw Wow look at
you you knocked the other two down let's
add two more pins to our problem
yeah put them over here one two all
right we're gonna do some counting and
see how many knocked down all together
all right let's count you ready you get
your pointer finger out where's your
pointer finger there it is you ready
let's count them say one two three four
five six so you got six all together can
you find the six get it yeah you found
the six good job Maurice high five
way to go you did awesome all right
Maurice did his Apple bowling let's see
who else could have a turn apple bowling
and so at that station we have bowling
pins and an apple is our bowling ball
and so they each get a turn to roll the
Apple and see how many pins they knock
down and then they are able to create a
math problem where they add how many
pins they knock down so they have two
turns and they knock down they do the
first roll and see how many pins they
knocked down and we move some visuals
down of however many they knock down
first and then they go again and we see
how many they knocked down and we move
those visuals and we count them all up
and do you know say I knocked down five
all together then I try to identify a
five out of probably two choices so
that's working on counting and it's
working on number identification and
adding and it's also against um those
gross and fine motor skills of you know
be able to stand there a lot of the kids
will be and walkers or Stander's or
those kinds of things during this time
too and so they're working on being able
to stand nice and tall and you know roll
the Apple and all those kinds of things
too
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all right okay ready
you turn it up here come on up this way
gonna have to hop you walking this way
come on over here Caleb right over here
come on down
good job Caleb that was really awesome
listening we're gonna get you about
right here Caleb see ready let's come
this way a little bit we're gonna hop it
you ready say alright you're gonna try
and knock down those pins right there
okay okay that's right we did happy
throw it not eat it let's throw it let's
throw it you ready say one two oh that
was a good throw but look we got to try
and hit the pins okay
let's try again here we go good job your
friend William says good job ready here
we go say one two three whoa oh my
goodness you knocked them all down
look at that Caleb 3 that's right you
touch look up here this is for touch
like this
four and can you get it look look
five look you touch okay five good six I
this is six six that's right good
counting Caleb we got six
cuz guess what you're not done all six
pins Caleb way to go I get high five for
that good job alright you did it then we
have the bobbing for apples and in that
station there are apples and a big tub
of water and each Apple has a different
letter written on it and big black
sharpie marker so they can see it and we
have first to start that activity off we
have some tactile letters with each of
the letters of their first name and so
we start off with each student feeling
that letter and really knowing what
letter they're looking for they're
working on again that fine motor skill
of holding the net and reaching in and
trying to get apples and they're also
working on some vision skills of looking
a lot of my kids just looking is a big a
big deal I'm sure you've probably heard
and a lot of the activities I'm so you
did a great job looking good job I love
how you're looking at that because
that's a big deal for a lot of our kids
so we're like we're working on looking
and finding that Apple and then we're
also working on the skill of matching
letter to letter and just knowing what
the letter of your first name is to
eventually be able to hopefully spell
your name and know what your name looks
like
alright guys guess what you did your
Apple bowling and now it's time for
bobbing for apples and how this is gonna
work is you're gonna race a friend so
it's gonna be one person over here and
one person over here and you're gonna be
trying to find the Apple with the letter
of your first name on it before your
friend does so I have lots of apples up
here I've got apples with lots of
letters I've got an apple with a C does
anybody's name in here start with a C I
saw you look up here Caleb guess what
Caleb starts with C that's right let's
see and look there's an apple for you
let's see I'm gonna put it in the bucket
you ready here it goes in the bucket
there's one with C in there how about is
there anybody in here whose name starts
with a T hmm anybody with a T maybe
somebody over here maybe a boy that's
sitting right here guess what guess what
his name starts with a t t that's right
you see him the T we have a tea for
Tyrell let's feel it Tyrell see we've
got tea for Tyrell and this Apple has a
tea - you ready
it says tea for Tyrell we're gonna put a
tea in the bucket for you you'll have 1
defines put it in all right is there
anybody in here whose name starts with a
B hmm many bees in here
I see you looking who whose name starts
with a P do you know not my name whose
name can you find it
no mori starts with an M guess whose
name starts with a B who was that
Breanna her name starts with a B look
who's the girl and here whose name
starts with an M who could it be
it is you that's right you see the Apple
has M for Maddy yeah I like how you're
getting it can you look let's look at
this in look M for Maddy let's trace it
you ready let's say I'm gonna hold it
with that hand alright we've got for
Maddy that's you yeah that's right good
job
let's see Maurice can you put this in
the bucket can you drive your wheelchair
up the front and put it in the bucket
please go put it in drive yourself up
there put it in your lap and drive
yourself up there it's okay you can
leave right there good you have to turn
yourself a little bit use this bar in
turn there you go
now you can go straight good put it in
yay good job yeah Maddy there's an M in
there for you and Maurice way to go good
job alright and then just to be tricky
there's some other letters in our
buckets there's a letter A I don't think
we have anybody whose name starts with
an A but you might find an A and you'll
say that's not the letter that my name
starts with you'll have to throw it back
and find a different one alright all of
our letters are in our bucket so now
what we're going to do is we're going to
get two people you're gonna come up
you're gonna get a net you can pick what
color if you want blue or if you want
pink and then you're gonna dig them out
just like this
and you're gonna look and see if it's
your letter all right Maddie did you
remind yourself the letter that you're
looking for you're looking for you're
looking for em and guess what
Maurice is looking for the letter M -
you're both looking for the same letter
and I wonder who's gonna find it first
Oh Williams lay ready for us to go here
we go you ready go reach in there and
get something there you go what did you
get can you reach in there and get it
let me hold this for a second oh my
goodness look at that would you get what
did you get oh my goodness look she
found the M can you believe it then we
have a hayride relay race because when
you go to the apple orchard you always
you know go on a hayride and so that
gives them the experience of getting to
ride a hayride which otherwise they
probably wouldn't have had that
experience and so with that activity we
do a race and we have two different
wagons and we have apples set up on some
trees on the other side of the room and
they get in the wagons and race to see
who can get the most apples back the
fastest and so they're using a lot of
fine motor skills being able to reach
and put the take the apples off the tree
and put them in their bin they're
working on colors that the different
color apples there's red and green and
yeah yeah in yellow and so they're
working on you know identifying those
colors we're gonna do some hay rides
this time how this is gonna work as
we've got our wagons right here this is
gonna be our hay ride guess what you're
gonna get a chance to get in
and you're gonna race down to the apple
trees and get as many apples apples off
the tree as you can you're gonna be
racing another friend you see who can
get the most and two minutes you don't
have long you're gonna have to be fast
so you're gonna get to get in here like
this and you're gonna use your hands and
reach and get the apples okay so we're
gonna need two people each turn and I'm
gonna need two people that can help me
one tell us what we need to go and two
someone that can keep up with our time
so we've got our talker that you can
tell us when we need to go so we'll do
that and we've got our timer on here and
you'll press Start and then when you
hear the music
well know it's time to see who won you
think you could do that part when it's
not your turn I'm sure you could and
then when you get done when you come
back here and bring your apples back
you're gonna put them in the basket and
go back and get more okay until you hear
the music and when it's all done we're
gonna count and see who got the most
apples okay so who thinks they should go
first for our hayride all right there
are two boys let's still need a turn I
think it's William Stern and Terrell's
turn you ready all right Tyrone and get
your seat ready for your wagon ride
there's some hay for ya for your hay
ride
is that funny he's got some hey here you
go
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actually you an apple pick an apple you
ready here we go
reach reach reach you got a red apple
Terrell hold it right there and on back
here we go
alright we're gonna put it in the basket
you ready hold it and put it yeah good
job all right let's turn around right
Terrell we're gonna see who won this
race all right you're gonna get one out
and then you're gonna count it okay so
get one the second one you counted two
you gotta get it ready
you get the last one neech up there and
get it let's count it
oh you got three apples William good job
I wonder how many Terrell got how many
you think you got let's see let me get
yours we're gonna do some counting
basket
let's get ready okay here we go let's
reach reach in let's get one we're gonna
put it right here and let's count it
here we go one one if it's not fun
they're not going to be engaged and it's
not gonna even if you have a ton of IEP
objectives embedded in this activity
they're not going to care because it's
not fun so I start with a theme to my
unit that I think will be fun and
engaging for all of the students and
that kind of lends itself to a lot of
different activities and a lot of
different experiences things that are
simple and concrete and tactile that we
can really explore lots of things
related to it after I've kind of figured
out what I want the theme to be and
what's going to be fun and engaging then
from there I start looking at like
specific activities that will touch on
all of the different domains like all
the different you know the math science
social studies and the gross motor fine
motor vision all of those things that
we're working on so the more that you
plan these things the activities and the
more that you embed all of the different
goals and the more that you
differentiate instruction the better
that you become at just being able to do
it without really having it every little
thing written down you just kind of you
have to know you have to really know
what all of their goals are and you have
to really know what the kids don't need
to be working on and so a lot of times
if I have that knowledge in the back of
my head okay you know this child needs
to be working on this this kid needs to
work on this and know what all of them
are working on will be in the middle of
activity and just because I didn't plan
it this way I'll say oh my gosh this is
a really good time for so-and-so to work
on reaching and grasping or this is a
really great time for so-and-so to work
on this communication skill or you know
all of those things you can embed them
so quickly and easily when you have a
really strong foundation
of what do they really need guess what
guys we've done Apple bowling
we've done bobbing for apples and we've
done hay rides where we're picking our
apples and guess what we have one more
thing to do at our apple orchard today
we're gonna pick apples because that's
what you do when you go to an apple
orchard right has any of you ever been
to it apple orchard
have you gone you've been to an apple
orchard before have you picked apples
have you done that I don't know I don't
think maybe you have you're gonna get a
chance to go yeah I have done it before
but you're gonna get to go this time
okay so we're gonna come up and I'm
gonna hand out your bags you have a bag
up here that has your name on it you're
gonna get your bag and you're gonna get
a turn to come up here and you're gonna
pick a few apples and then you're gonna
take them back to your seat and after
everybody's had a turn we're gonna give
some prizes away oh yes there's prizes
at this apple orchard all right we've
got your bag let's come see if we can
pick some apples can you go get an apple
look look look right here can you get
one get an apple that's right get it get
it you almost had it
pull it off let's try again
get it look get it
almost get it hurry and pull it off
you got it look let's see what number
you got you got ah cute all right let's
put it in your bag let's see if you can
get two more there's one Apple let's
come around this side where else do you
want to get an apple which one do you
want to get that one I'm gonna get that
one can you get it good job all right so
pull your apples out and look at what
numbers you have find out what numbers
are in your bag
let's Ichiro you've got you've got a 1
you've got a 5 and you've got a 3 all
right keep those numbers in your head
all right I think everybody's seen their
numbers so this is how it's gonna work
I've got some special prizes and we're
gonna spin our spinner and if you hear
your number then you get to pick a
special prize okay so who can spin our
first number hmm who wants to spin would
you like to do it you push the purple
button see what number we get oh it's
plane - that one what all right tell
everybody that we've got a 4 does
anybody have a 4 okay lemon Brianna you
guys have a 4 guess what your special
prize is you get to pick apple juice or
apple sauce to have with your lunch a
special Apple prize would you like apple
juice or would you like apple sauce with
your lunch you want apple sauce all
right we'll remember that you get to
have some apple sauce at lunch all right
who else had 4 4 was it Caleb Caleb you
had a 4
what would you like with your lunch this
is your special prize would you like
apple juice for applesauce what apple
juice good talking you can have apple
juice with your lunch okay high five
good choosing alright did everybody get
to pick their special prize alright
guess what our trip to the apple orchard
is what Maurice can you tell us it's all
done the thing about our class is that
you know not every day is a good day but
there's something good that happens
every day and so with these students
there are so many so many things that
happen that we get so excited about and
if you were to walk in and you know say
what's going on what happened we you
know you might be shocked to find out
that it was some seemingly small tiny
thing that happened but to us it's such
a huge deal
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