We did this after the name activities and after we had done Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
Students read and re-read.
Text is usually in cloze fashion where student contributes a word to the text. The apple, pumpkin and turkey sheets. Students cut and sequence number strips to recreate the song- sung to the tune of 10 Little Indians. I will be using the alphabet book and strip books in our writing center in January. We used the Apple Unit when we went to the Apple Farm this October.