Picking Apples: Ready-to-Read Level 1

Robin Hill School

by Margaret McNamara, Mike Gordon (Illustrator)

Mrs. Connor's class is off on a field trip to pick apples! But one member of the class is not so sure he wants to add to the piles of this yummy fall fruit. Can Mrs. Connor and the rest of the kids convince Michael to join in the fun -- with an apple picked just for him?

Genres: School, Childrens, Picture Books, Mathematics, Fiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Margaret McNamara is the Christopher Award–winning author of more than two dozen books for young readers, including the Robin Hill School series. The Fairy Bell Sisters series is inspired not only by her love of the classic sisterhood novel Little Women but by her own experiences growing up with older sisters (and a baby brother). Margaret and her family live in New York City, but they spend part of their summer on an island in Maine very much like Sheepskerry Island.

Reviews

[MyTwoTeeGirls · Rating 2 out of 5]

My girls like following these characters about their adventures.

But I’ll never understand why beginning reader books have such hard kid names to pronounce like Eigen. I can appreciate trying to diversify, but surely we can find names that beginning readers can be successful with.

[Danette · Rating 3 out of 5]

6/27/17 Read with Simon.

[Andrew Stockle · Rating 2 out of 5]

The reader revisits the adventures of Mrs. Connor’s class as they go on an apple picking adventure. One child, Michael, will not pick apples with the class. The reader learns the names of many apples and different ways that one could get them off of the tree. In the end Michael enjoys picking apples because one of the apples shares his last name. This story is very simple with great illustrations which are detailed, large, colorful, and done with watercolors with black ink on top. The text is nice and large, which would be great for young readers. This story is also appropriate for young readers due to its simplicity and school setting. I would use this book to teach about counting, apple variety, class participation and fun.

[Brandy · Rating 2 out of 5]

In this story Michael does not want to help his classmates pick apples at the orchard. As soon as his teacher comes over to him and whispers that he has something special in common with the apples, Michael immediately starts to help his classmates pick apples. Share this book with your students in pre-k through first grade if you see problems in class with students working together. This book shows a good example of how working together speeds up a process and lessens the amount of work each person has to do. Good showing of cooperation.

[Lyndsey Hurm · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book to use in a math lesson. You could Tally the amount of each apple that is collected in the story and teach the students about pictographs and tally marks.

If a class is taking a field trip to an apple orchard this would also be a good book to read before, after, or both to teach them about the different types of apples. I may read it and then ask my students to come up with their own ways of picking and collecting apples.

[Yadira · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book is about a class that takes a field trip to pick apples, but one of the little boys does not want to pick any apples. This book can be used during math. Each child can have a certain amount of apples and they might have to figure out how many baskets they need to distribute the apples evenly.

[Eugene Magee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book to assist you in teaching numbers and colors. Also talks about the different types and names of apples. You can also use this book to explain why it is important to be social and have a good attitude towards others.

[Heather Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

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