A is for Apples

APPLES!!!

MATH

-Apple book, “I see ____ apples” 10 pages with 1-10 apples (enchantedlearning.com)

-Apple tasting graph

Each student will taste three different apples and vote on his or her favorite. We will then make a graph of the votes.

READING/STORY TIME

-Johnny Appleseed

-The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

LANGUAGE ARTS

Make a class book about the applesauce making experience in small groups of 3-7.

We washed our hands. (Kids trace and cut their hand prints our of bright paper)

We washed the apples. (I cut a faucet shape out of gray paper and a few water drops out of blue and the kids cut red, yellow or green circles, free-hand, to put under the water)

We cut the apples. (Kids cut large red, yellow or green chunks of paper)

We cooked the apples. (I cut a gray pan on a hot plate and the kids cut apple colored paper that sort of is coming out the top)

We ground the apples. (I put the cooked apples into a food to take away the peelings so I cut a food mill out of gray paper and the kids make really fine apple colored chunks)

We added cinnamon and sugar. (Cinnamon is brown paper cut with a hole punch and sugar is clear glitter)

We ate the applesauce. Yum! (Kids draw pictures of themselves eating the applesauce)

ART

-3-D apple

-Fingerprint apple tree

These are special apples, Hanging on this tree. I made them with my fingerprints. They are a part of me!

-Johnny Appleseed puppet

SCIENCE

-Observe apples as they are cut and exposed to air

-Dissecting an apple

Have students hypothesize how many seeds, taste, etc.

-Make applesauce

MUSIC

-Johnny Appleseed song

(sing to Do you Know the Muffin Man)

Do you know the apple man, the apple man, the apple man?

Do you know the apple man? He planted apple seeds.

He wore a pot upon his head, upon his head, upon his head.

He wore a pot upon his head. His name was Johnny Appleseed.

John Chapman was his real name, his real name, his real name.

John Chapman was his real name; But, we call him Johnny Appleseed.

-Five Little Apples
(A Finger Play)
Five little apples lying on the floor,
I'll roll one away, and that leaves four.
(Make rolling movement with arms.)

Four little apples hanging on a tree,
I'll pick one off, and that leaves three.
(Pick an imaginary apple.)

Three little apples, I know what to do!
I'll put one in my pocket, and that leaves two.
(Pretend to put an apple in pocket.)

Two little apples sitting in the sun.
I'll pick one up, and that leaves one.
(Pretend to pick apple up off the floor.)

One little apple waiting in my lunch.
I'll eat it up with a crunch, crunch, crunch.
(Pretend to take a big bite.)

About Johnny Appleseed:

Johnny Appleseed was a legendary American who planted and supplied apple trees to much of the United States of America. Many people think that Johnny Appleseed was fictional character, but he was a real person.

Johnny was a skilled nurseryman who grew trees and supplied apple seeds to the pioneers in the mid-western USA. Appleseed gave away and sold many trees. He owned many nurseries in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, where he grew his beloved apple trees. Although he was a very successful man, Appleseed lived a simple life. It is said that as Johnny traveled, he wore his cooking pot on his head as a hat!

Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1774. His real name was John Chapman, but he was called Johnny Appleseed because of his love for growing apple trees.

Johnny died at the age of 70; he is buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had spent 50 years growing apple trees and traveling to spread his precious trees around his country.