Title: Eat an Apple
Eat an apple; (Bring right hand to mouth)
Save the core. (Close right hand in fist)
Plant the seeds. (Bend down touch hand to ground)
And grow some more. (Extend both arms out)
Title: Picking Apples
Sung to the tune of Frere Jacque (can use when picking up legos,
blocks, ect)
Picking apples
Picking apples
One by one
One by one
Put them in a basket
Put them in a basket
Oh, what fun!
Oh, what fun!
Title: Apple Dip - Science and Cooking
Mix some peanut butter & vanilla yogurt together. I can't remember
who told me about this, but it's good and they love it and the peanut
butter won't stick in their mouthes and cause choking since it's cut
with yogurt.
Title: Apple Surprise poem
10 shiny apples, hanging on a tree.
"Whish" went the wind And they all fell on me.
I picked up one and started to laugh,
When i found a surprise after I cut it in half.
Title: Apple and worm name tags - Name recognition and Art
Cut out apple shapes about the size of your hand on cereal boxes. Cut
out and use as a pattern. Let each child trace the pattern on red
construction paper and then cut it out. Use green constuction paper
scraps and cut out a leaf shape. Children then can cut out a worm
shape or use a piece of plastic foam packing material to add the
apple. Write or let the children write their names on the apple.
Identify each letter of their name. Apples then can be placed all
mixed up on a table and let each child identify their own name.
Title: Apple tree rhyme
Way up high in an apple tree (hold arms over head)
2 little apple smiled at me (hold up 2 fingers to cheeks)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (pretend to shake tree)
Down came 2 apples. Mmmm, they were good! ( rub stomach and smile)
Title: Apple On A Stick - poem
Apple on a stick, apple on a stick
I can lick it all day and not get sick.
Apple in a cup, apple in a cup
I can drink it all day and not fill up.
Apple in a crunch, apple in a crunch
I can eat it all day, it is so good to munch
Apple in a cake, apple in a cake
I can eat it all day with no tummy ache
Apple in a pie, apple in a pie
I can eat it all day and never cry.
Apple in a dish, apple in a dish
I can eat it all day, it's so delish!
Title: Red Apple - poem
A little red apple
Hung high in a tree
I looked up at it
And it looked down at me
"Come down, please" I called
And what do you suppose---
That little red apple
Dropped right on my nose!
Title: Five Red Apples - poem
Five red apples in a grocery store
Bobby bought one & then there were 4
Four red apples on an apple tree
Susie ate one & then there were 3
Three red apples. What did Alice do?
Why she ate one & then there were 2
Two red apples ripening in the sun
Tommy ate one, & now there was one
One red apple & now we are done
I ate the last one & now there are none!
Title: Ten Red Apples
Here I have five apples. (hold up five fingers on right hand)
And here are five again. (hold up both hands)
How many apples altogether?
Why, five and five makes ten.
Title: Eat an Apple
Eat an apple; (Bring right hand to mouth)
Save the core. (Close right hand in fist)
Plant the seeds. (Bend down touch hand to ground)
And grow some more. (Extend both arms out)
Title: Picking Apples
Sung to the tune of Frere Jacque (can use when picking up legos,
blocks, ect)
Picking apples
Picking apples
One by one
One by one
Put them in a basket
Put them in a basket
Oh, what fun!
Oh, what fun!
Title: All Around The Apple Tree
sung to the tune of Mulberry Bush
Here we go round the apple tree, the apple tree, the apple tree
Here we go around the apple tree
On a frosty morning.
This is the way we climb the ladder
-pick the apples
-wash the apples
-peel the apples
-cook the apples
-eat the apples
On a frosty morning!
Title: APPLE ACTIVITIES
Submitted by Elise
I read Albert's Field Trip (about a trip to the apple orchard) -
author's name escapes me. Then we go on a nature walk and look
for twigs that look like miniature trees - with smaller branches. Each
child needs one. Then we begin. The first thing you need
to do is make play doh - since I have K's I do this with them. They
LOVE to squeeze it! We add green food coloring. each
child gets a ball of play doh - first, of course, I let them play
with it or they will never work with it! They each press their
ball into a clear plastic tumbler - this becomes the "grass." We
let it harden a bit overnight. Then they each place their "tree" into
the "grass" and that sits until the doh is totally hard - another
day or two. They they use crumpled pieces of 1" X 2" red
tissue paper and glue them on the twigs - these are the "apples," of
course! They are all displayed on a counter and labelled "An
Orchard In The Garden" (again, the name of my program being Children's
Garden).
I also have in the listening center The Apple Tree Pie by Zoe Hall.
I tie apples into Halloween too - toward the end of September we peel
apples and carve out "faces." These sit for several weeks and
shrivel up to become witch heads. We add white hair and a hat
(in ice cream cone painted black) - and they hang in our room through
Halloween.
Title: Apple Tree
Submitted by Stephanie
(tune of Up on the Rooftop)
High on the apple tree off the ground
I spy an apple big and round.
Climb up the apple tree hold on tight.
I pick an apple and take a bite.
Crunch, crunch, crunch, What a treat,
Yum, yum, yum, ever so sweet.
Down from the apple tree away I go.
Thanks to the apple tree for the fruits we grow.
Title: Apple - Lantern
Submitted by Bobbi
You turn the apple upsidedown,with the stem side up. You take two
small bites at the top and one in the middle and then one bigger
at the bottom. The kids are really excitied when they see the face
! Then we set them on the table and let them smile at us. We
then compare their faces and vote if we want to eat them or not. Most
of the time they want to eat them and give each other instructions
on how to make the face on the back.
Apple Tree Painting
Submitted by Sue
Paint arm brown and print on construction paper (tree trunk)
Paint hand green and print over brown arm print (branches or tree
top)
Paint finger tips red and print on top of green hand print (apples)
Title: Apple Unit
Following cross-curriculum ideas submitted by Stella
Math: Graphing; Comparing; Counting; Sorting; Observing
The students create a real floor graph with apples.
Teacher Preparation:
Make a large floor graph (3 columns- there's a commercially made
one out there); cut out apples in 3 colors (red, green, yellow);
create a student copy of the apple graph
Procedure:
1. Have the children bring in 1 apple (mention it doesn't need to be
red....) Allow a couple of days for students to bring in apples.
2. Gather class in a circle and ask questions like: Who brought red apples?
yellow? small apples? big? count... compare apples
3. Tell the class that they will organize the apples in a graph so they
can see how much we really have for each color of apple.
4. Children will put their apple on the appropriate column (red,
yellow, green).
5. Watch their faces get very excited when the graph starts to come alive
in front of them and they start egging on their color of apple.
6. When everyone is done, ask them what they see...encourage them to
share their observations and thoughts about the graph in front of them. Children
will notice which group of apples has the most and the least; how many apples
in each color...
7. Teacher can lead students to specific observations like how many red apples
all together...
8. After the activity, put apples aside (for Apple Carousel project)
and recreate the floor graph by using the cut up shapes of apples; display
the graph somewhere in the room; the next day, have the children recall the
activity and discuss...observe children going to the graph and see them count
the apples again and again and again.
9. If appropriate with your class: have the children color in their
copy of their apple graph to go home (great assessment tool).
Title: Apple Carousel
(use apples previously used in the apple graph)
Teacher Preparation: Animal crackers, peanut butter, straws (cut
in thirds), and a knife
1. Cut the apple in half.
2. Stick 4 pieces of straw around the bottom half of the apple.
3. Stick the top part of the apple on the straws.
4. Stick the animals (animal crackers) on the straws with peanut butter.
5. Viola! You have an apple carousel with lots of different animals!
The children love this project and almost do not want to eat it because its
very cute!
Title: The Apple Story...
Johnny was a little boy, who lived on a big farm. There were lots of
animals on his farm but, there were no other children around. One
day Johnny went to his mother and said he was bored and wanted something
to do. So, his mother asked him to go out and see if he could find: "A
red house with NO doors, NO windows, but a star inside". Little Johnny
was a bit puzzled. But he headed out the door and started to look.
First he saw his cat and said "Cat, do you know where there is a
red house with NO doors, NO windows but a star inside?" "MEOW-MEOW-
no i don't" answered the cat. Little Johnny walked up the road a
little further and came across the chickens. "Hen," he asked, "do
you know where there is a red house with NO doors, NO windows but
a star inside?" The hen answered "cluck-cluck no, I don't know".
So, Johnny kept walking and hunting, until he encountered the sheep
in the pasture. "Sheep, do you know where there is a red house with
NO doors, NO windows but a star inside?" And the sheep replied "Baa-baa
no, I don't" Little Johnny was getting discouraged. But, he kept
looking. He saw his horse, up on top of a hill, eating from the apple
tree and he went up to him. "Horse, do you know where I can find
a red house with NO doors, NO windows but a star inside?" "Neigh-neigh
no, I don't" answered the horse, and just then,an apple fell from
the tree and hit Johnny right on the head!! Little Johnny picked
up the apple and started walking home. He was sad that he couldn't
find the red house. He walked into the house and said "Mom, I'm sorry,
I looked everywhere but, I can't... " His Mother cut him off, before
he could finish "Johnny, you FOUND it!!!" Johnny looked even more
confused and said "WHAT?" His mother said "You found the red house,
with NO doors, NO windows but a star inside" She took the apple and
cut it in half and showed him the star!
* Now.... when you cut the apple, you don't cut along the core~ you cut it
across the core (holding top and bottom in your hand, and cutting through the
center. The core makes a star shape.) After showing how his Mom cut the apple
and showed Johnny, ask the children "Who would this be a house FOR?"
(of course, the answer is a worm.)
You can add more to the story, by having Johnny ask more animals if they know
where there is such a house.You can add cow, goat, dog, rooster, turkey, duck.
**Usually, when I tell this story, I have the children do the animal sounds
with me!!
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