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Materials

• different colored apples
• pot
• big Venn diagram
• Johnny Appleseed book

Procedure

1. Read Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg
2. tell the children that someone special is coming to visit and that you have to go get them
3. go into the hall or another room, roll up pant legs, put the pot on your head, and grab the sack of apples
4. go back to the children, pretending like you are Johnny Appleseed, hand each child an apple and instruct them NOT to eat it, exit the room
5. go back to the other room/hallway and unroll your pants and put the pot away
6. go back to the children and say that you couldn’t find the guest and ask them how they got their apples
7. get out the Venn diagram and have the students stand around it
8. sort the apples by size
9. ask the children if they can think of another way to sort the apples
10. sort the apples by color, shape, stems/no stems, bumps/no bumps, etc
11. collect the apples to use for another activity
12. read another Johnny Appleseed book for closure
    

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