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It’s apple time! And, in our homeschool group meeting, we had such a fun time with these free printable passport retelling pages from the book, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Margorie Priceman.
*Note, this is an older post that I’ve updated with fresher pictures of the freebie. Excuse the old, dark photos! 🙂
**The free printable can be found towards the END of this post. Just look for and click on the teal download button.
Making Suitcases
When the older kids arrived (8 in all), they came into the schoolroom and got to work on their “suitcases”. You can’t travel without a suitcase, right?!?
To make a suitcase, they selected two pieces of 9×12 construction paper. These were stapled all around the edges (except for tops). “Handles” were glued to the top, which were also cut out from construction paper.
Then they glued their world map on the front of the case. I found this world map online, then I created this World Map Key {click to download} to go with each country from the book. First, I printed off the world map, then I ran that same piece of paper through again, printing the key on the bottom of the map.
Preparing Passport Retelling Books
Each child colored their passport fronts and filled in their personal information inside on the first page.
Once most kids were finished filling in their information, we assembled all the pages in the passport and stapled it all together. {More specific directions on how to assemble the passport are on this download, which is toward the end of this post.}
Read Aloud
We gathered for a reading of How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World.
Before reading, I pulled out these vocabulary words and we discussed their meanings: ingredients, elegant, coax, & acquaintance. When we came across the words while reading, I briefly pointed back to the word and gave them a synonym for the word.
After reading, we went quickly back through the story again to review the places the girl traveled and the ingredient(s) she got from place. The kids found each place on their own maps and colored in their keys and map to label the places she went.
Passport Retelling Pages
To practice retelling the story, each child was given a page that had the flag from each country visited in the book and the item the little girl got from each country.
They were asked to cut out the pictures and glue them down in their passports on the correct page (country names are on the bottom of each page of passport, in the order of her travels.)
Once they were finished, they had to retell the story to one of the moms, using the pages of their passports. We took an apple stamp and as the child retold that page, he got his passport “stamped” on each page. 🙂 It would also be fun for students to retell the story again to each other on another day and let them stamp each other’s passports more.
Of course, after we finished the book and retellings, we had to make apple pie! Well, actually each kid made their own apple dumplings, as it can be difficult to have 14 kids make one pie all together!
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Enjoy!
~Becky
Love this! We rowed this last week, but our trip to the apple orchard is tomorrow. We will definitely be adding these great ideas to our weekend (or next week 🙂 Thank you!
Awesome! Enjoy the apple orchard. Our homeschool group wanted to go to the apple orchard, but the summer was so hot that by September, most of the apple orchards around here had no apples. 🙁
Argh! I wish my printer was working so I could do something similar with my son. One of our printer cords is MIA- lol! I love this activity, though! Thanks for sharing!
I don’t know where you live and if you can do this, but someone just mentioned to me the other day that they went to their public library and printed some stuff off for free. I wonder if you could do the same. 🙂
Just going through my bookmarks bar and stopped back! Totally didn’t think about the library– that’s a great idea! Thanks for replying!!
Such fun ideas for this wonderful book.
Thanks for sharing at Apples, Apples, and more Apples!
Jill
http://www.blessedbeyondadoubt.com/
This is fantastic! Thank you so, so much!
You’re very welcome!
I teach high school students with special needs. The academic level resembles K-2. I’m so glad you used the pictures and the set up that you did because when I find fun and academic activities that are applicable, the pictures are too juvenile and I’m unable to use them. I strive to always use age-appropriate materials but it’s difficult to find at this level. So, thank you for creating this resource that I can use with them.
I’m so glad you can use these! 🙂
What a great printable! I will use this with my grandsons when we read How to Make an Apple Pie. Thank you!
Oh, how fun!! 🙂
Thank you for sharing your resources! Our family of three girls will truly enjoy doing this.
Great to hear!