Students bring in their favorite color apple and graph the results. Included in this attachment is a ready-made parent letter and a ready-to-use graph for students to graph the class results. Use this lesson in the fall (September 26th is Johnny Appleseed's birthday) to introducing graphs and math language like "more than," "less than," "equal," etc.
Here are a few basic subtraction word problems using numbers up to 20. Students read the story, use the pictures to help, and create a subtraction number sentence.