Passport Retelling Pages – How to Make an Apple Pie

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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