Lemons & Limes, Apples & Oranges

We  read The Red Lemon by Bob Staake, An Orange In January by Dianna Hutts Aston and Apple by Nikki McClure.

We danced to Jim Gill's Silly Dance Contest. We sang a song to the tune of Peanut Butter & Jelly called Lemons, Lemonade:
First you take the lemons and you cut them, you cut them
Then you take the lemons and you squeeze them, you squeeze them
Then you add the sugar and the water, the water
Then you drop the ice cubes, and you stir it, you stir it
Pour yourself a glass and drink it, drink it
Lemon, lemonade- yeah! Lemon, lemonade-yeah! (Themes from A to Z by Education Center)

We used our lemon and lime props to work with positional words.

 

The limes are here, the lemons are there

The limes, the lemons are everywhere
The limes are up, the lemons are down
The limes, the lemons are all around
The limes are in, the lemons are out
The limes, the lemons are all about
The limes are low, the lemons are high
The limes, the lemons all say Good-bye!

 

We tasted lemons and limes. And then we did a short sequencing activity with a girl drinking lemonade.

 



I had these take-home activities: lime and lemon slices, apple and orange word sheets and a positional word game to use with the lemon and lime props. The A words worksheet was from Mailbox Magazine and the O-words sheet I made in Word. The Wacky Word games was from http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=16188