Apples – Life of Fred

The first book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series. Your student is ready to start this series when…

1. They can talk in sentences.
2. They are willing to listen to a 5 page story.
3. They can hold a pencil.
4. They can print the digits 0 to 10
5. They know their basic addition and subtraction facts up to 10

Dr. Schmidt recommends that all students up to 4th grade start with Apples and work their way through the entire elementary series.

This book is not consumable. All answers are written on separate paper or in a notebook. It is designed to be read with the student. The answers are included in the textbook.

Life of Fred Apples contains 19 lessons and is designed to take approximately one month to complete. Then your student is ready for Life of Fred Butterflies.

Topics covered:

Numbers that Add to 7, Circles, Ellipses, Reading 6:00 on a Clock, 5 + ? = 7, Days of the Week, Leap Years, Spelling February, Dressing for Cold Weather, 15 Degrees Below Zero (–15º), Deciduous Trees, Deciduous Teeth, Counting by Fives, 3x + 4x = 7x, Archimedes 287 B.C. Wrote The Sand Reckoner and Got Killed Being Rude, ante meridiem (a.m.), Donner and Blitz in German, One Million, Euclid Wrote The Elements, Squares, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Whales Are Not Fish, The “There Are Zero . . .” Game, Sets, the Popularity of Zero, Why Boats Are Cheaper to Rent in the Winter, Triangles, Herbivores and Carnavores, the Colors of the Rainbow, a King in Checkmate, the Story of the Titanic, ? (not equal), x + 4 = 7, One Thousand, Counting by Hundreds, Reading 3:05 on a Clock, Rectangles.