This book is about an apple tree, and a young boy's relation to it throughout the year. The book goes through each season explaining what the tree looks like, and telling the reader what Arnold does with his apple tree. In the spring he watched the flowers bud, in the summer he builds a tree house, in the fall he picks the apples and makes apple pie and apple cider with his parents, and in winter, he builds a fort around his tree house. The book ends when spring begins again signaling to the reader that the process will start all over again.
I am planning to use this book in my EE3 for my unit on change. One of the large topics I will be covering is the changing of the seasons. This is going to be the book I use in my first lesson about seasons. I like this book because it gives children something to relate the changing of the seasons to. Something we all notice very easily in the changing seasons is how the trees change. This is something they can watch throughout the year at school and at home!
I really liked the way this book was written. The illustrations have.very bright, vivid colors. The text is framed below the pictures in little boxes. When the season changes, the text telling you "it is spring" is framed at the top of the page. In some sections, there are also small boxes with more information on the science of what is happening with the tree. For example, in the spring section it tells us about the honeybee and the apple blossoms and how they interact. In fall, we are given a recipe for apple pie (and told to have and adult help us make it) and a box on how the apple cider press works. I love these elements that make the store more informative!
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