Apples Songs & Poems Eat An Apple Eat an apple. (bring hand to mouth) Save the core. (make a fist) Plant the seeds. (bend down and touch ground) And grow some more. (extend arms out) Apples Red and juicy, shiny, sweet, apple you're so good to eat. Crisp and crunchy, healthy, too. This core is all that's left of you! Apples Apples are so good to eat, To have one is a special treat. Red, green, yellow too, All of them are good for you! A Little Apple Seed Tune: Eensy Weensy Spider Once a little apple seed Was planted in the ground. Down came the raindrops Falling all around. Out came the big sun, Bright as it could be. And that little apple seed grew To be an apple tree. Shiny Apple Red Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Shiny, shiny, apple red. Hanging high above my head. On my tiptoes, reaching high. One last stretch, it's worth a try. Shiny, shiny, apple red. Grabbed it, ate it, now I'm fed! Apples Up on Top Tune: Up on the Housetop Up in the treetop, way up high, Three red apples for my pie. How will I get them to the ground? I'll shake that tree 'til they fall down! Shake, shake, shake! Watch them fall! Shake, shake, shake, I'll catch them all! Oh, into my basket, one, two, three! No more apples in the tree. She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain First verse: She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes. Second verse: She'll be bringing big red apples when she comes. Third verse: She'll be peeling big red apples when she comes. Fourth verse: She'll be cooking big red apples when she comes. Fifth verse: She'll be making apple jelly when she comes. Activities Counting Book: Die press apple shapes and staple them together. You can also trace and cut out apple shapes if you don’t have an Ellison machine. Glue each apple to a 10x10 sheet of white paper. Have the children number the apples from 1-10, or higher. Using a black crayon, or real apple seeds, write or glue on the corresponding number of seeds for each apple. Apple Fractions: When using apples to discuss fractions, I always bring a child up to the front of the circle with me. I really want to share my apple with him/her, but I’m not really sure how to do that. The children will usually tell me to cut it in half. But I’m not really sure what “half” means. The children have fun telling me what it means to cut something in half. To get them on the right track, I always discuss how giving the child just a little piece would not be fair – I want to make sure we both have the same amount. Eventually, we will come to the conclusion that the apple is a “whole” when it is all there. By cutting the apple in “half,” we have to make sure it’s cut into two equal pieces – you know, to make sure it's fair, of course! Predicting Seeds: Give each student an apple or half of an apple. Ask each child to predict how many seeds are in their apple. Have them write their prediction down. Then allow the children to dig out the apple seeds. Have the children count the seeds from their apples to see how close they were to their prediction. Then you can graph who had the most, the least, or and an equal amount of seeds. Apples Make Sense! Copy and distribute the following sentences on apple stationary. Then give each child and apple and allow them to complete the sentences. This can also make a cute class book! Apples smell … Apples look … Apples feel … Apples sound … Apples taste … Smell/Taste Test: For this activity, you will need to cut up apples and pears. Blindfold each child and put each piece of fruit to their nose. Have them guess which one is the apple. Then let them guess the apple by tasting each fruit. Our Favorite Apple Graph: For this activity, you will need 3 apples (red, yellow, and green), toothpicks, die cut apples in red, yellow, and green, and 1 large graph. Begin this lesson by cutting a red, a green, and a yellow apple into bite size pieces. Give each student one of each color. Then let each student choose a die cut apple to match the color of the apple they liked best. Then have them place it on the graph under the color of the apple the liked best. Discuss the results. Apple Palm Prints: For this activity, you will need red, brown, and green paint, paint brushes, and paper. Paint the student's palms with red paint. Students will then stamp their palms on the paper. Then they should dip their thumbs into the brown paint to make a stem. They can use their fingerprints to make the green leaves. Make Apple Sauce: Here’s the Rrecipe: Peel, core, and slice about 8 apples. Place the apples, 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon into a crock pot or slow cooker. Cook for at least a couple of hours or until apples are mushy. Mash ‘em up, cool, and serve. Click Here for the free New York State Apple Country Kit for Teachers. Ten Apples Up On Top Apples On Top Portraits: After reading the story, give the children an 8" x 11" piece of construction paper cut in half and turned the "tall" way. Have each child draw a picture of his/her face at the bottom. Then give each student 10 small apples numbered 1-10 to cut out. The kids then glue the 10 apples in order 1-10 on top of their head/face that they drew at the bottom of the page. Apples Up On Top Class Book: For each page have the following sentence: ............ had ............ apples up on top. Above the text, have a picture of the child. Have each child pick an apple with a number on it. They then glue the number of apples on top of their picture. Laminate the book and put in your classroom library. The children will love reading it over and over!