picking apples and pumpkins by amy hutchings

The seasonal growth is described by two sisters who closely watch the tree in their back yard. The Apple Pie Tree, written by Zoe Hall and illustrated by Shari Halpern - An apple tree grows through the seasons, providing fruit for a pie in the fall. How Do Apples Grow?, written by Betsy Maestro and illustrated by Guilio Maestro - This book in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out-Science series presents the growth of an apple from blossom to fruit. In the spring they build a swing and smell the apple blossoms, in summer they build a tree house, in fall they rake leaves and pick apples, and in winter they build a fort. The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, written and illustrated by Gail Gibbons - In this story, Arnold and his dog play in and around their apple tree throughout the year.

Instructions on how to plant and care for an apple tree are included. It's a shame however that the program can't be run from System 6 or run from a hard drive.Apples, written and illustrated by Gail Gibbons - From blossom to pollination to picking, this book presents information about how apples grow, their various parts, and the different varieties. The last category, words, teaches kids basic vocabulary and applying them in the context of a sentence.Īll in all, this program is a worthwhile software addition for 4 to 7 year olds. The third activity involves choosing the correct rhyming word. The first two activities in this category involve finishing the word presented for a visually represented image. The third category, phonics, introduces children to the sounds of letters. The second category teaches the alphabet, from naming each letter in the alphabet and its use in a word, to making distinctions between lower and uppercase letters and finishing a sequence taken in order from the alphabet. The first set of activities, 'Readiness', preps kids for basic reading and comprehension skills - understanding which two objects are the same, which object is different and which object doesn't belong in a group. This is a great asset to Davidson, in continually challenging kids and making the program last longer, a design point Orange Cherry would have benefited from in all of its educational software. The rest of the program is controlled by both, but you can also press the key of the letter for a correct answer (or an incorrect one!).Įach of the activities' questions are sufficiently randomised, so that youngsters can return to the same activities and be continually challenged.

The program is laid out in much the same way of all Davidson's series of educational software, with a colourful main menu that presents all the categories of activities within the program, which are selected by either the mouse or the arrow keys and the space bar.

Reading, or more importantly comprehension, is the key to Reading and Me.

Picking apples and pumpkins by amy hutchings