{"id":2612,"date":"2018-08-30T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2018-08-31T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:51:56","slug":"apple-tree-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/30\/apple-tree-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Tree Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This game can be adapted to meet various skill levels.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Materials<\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simple cut out of apple tree glued onto heavy cardstock or cardboard&nbsp;<br \/>\nRed dot stickers&nbsp;<br \/>\nRed pompoms&nbsp;<br \/>\nHomemade spinner or cards with letters, numbers, or sight words&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Place red dot stickers on tree to represent apples. Write an uppercase letter on each dot. Make a simple spinner or create flash cards with the same uppercase letters. Invite your child to spin the spinner or turn over a card. He then places a red pompom on the red dot sticker that matches the card or letter on the spinner. Continue playing until all the red dot stickers are covered with pompoms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Adaptations<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. Match uppercase letters to lowercase letters.<br \/>\n2. Use a die and match the number of dots on the die to the number symbol on the red sticker dots.&nbsp;<br \/>\n3. Create a spinner or flashcards with sight words: and, the, is, to, in, etc. Write same sight words on red dot stickers. Child reads the word from the spinner or card and places a red pom .pom on top of the matching sight word on the red dot sticker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game can be adapted to meet various skill levels. Materials&nbsp; Simple cut out of apple tree glued onto heavy cardstock or cardboard&nbsp; Red dot stickers&nbsp; Red pompoms&nbsp; Homemade spinner or cards with letters, numbers, or sight words&nbsp; Directions&nbsp; Place red dot stickers on tree to represent apples. Write an uppercase letter on each dot. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/30\/apple-tree-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple Tree Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}