Apples

Poems and Songs

"How Many Apples" How many apples Do you see? Can you count them? 1, 2, 3 How many green ones? How many red? Now eat an apple And get to bed! unknown	"The Apple Tree" Way up high in an apple tree Two little apples smiled down at me I shook that tree as hard as I could Down came the apples M-m-m-m they were good.
"Ten Rosy Apples" Ten rosy apples high in a tree Safely hiding where no one can see. When the wind comes rocking to and fro, Then rosy apples to the ground must go.	" If I Were An Apple" If I were an apple And grew on a tree I think I'd drop down On a nice boy like me. I wouldn't stay there Giving nobody joy I'd fall down at once And say, "Eat me, my boy."
"The Apple" Up in the apple tree, High off the ground, I see an apple So big and round. I climb up the tree, And hold on tight. I pick that apple And take a bite!	"Ten Red Apples" Ten red apples grow on a tree Five for you and five for me. Let us shake the tree just so And ten red apples will fall below. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
" OLD MACDONALD" Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O And on this farm he had some apples, E-I-E-I-O With a _________here, and a _________there, Here a ______, there a ________, everywhere a _____,_____-. Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! (Substitute names of apples in the blanks.)	" Here We Go 'Round the Apple Tree" (Tune: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush) First verse: Here we go 'round the apple tree. Second verse: This is the way we pick the apples. Third verse: This is the way we peel the apples. Fourth verse: This is the way we slice the apples. Fifth verse: This is the way we bake a pie. Sixth verse: This is the way we eat the pie. For the ending line, you could use "so early in the morning"....or I suppose it could be something else. Any ideas?
Substitute apple verses of your own in the old favorite "She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain." Working with this song can be especially helpful in getting students to think through a series of steps involving apples. For example, a song could be built on the steps in making apple jelly: 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.	Apples in the attic, Apples in the hall, Apples in the summer, Apples in the fall. Apples make you healthy. Apples make you tall. I will eat some apples, I will eat them all.
"Ten Red Apples" Ten red apples, growing on a tree Five for you and five for me. Help me shake the tree just so- And ten red apples fall down below. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10!	Our Tree When spring comes round, our apple tree is very full of flowers, And when a bird sits on a branch the petals fall in showers. When summer comes round, our apple tree is very full of green, And everywhere you look in it there is a leafy screen. When autumn comes round, our apple tree is full of things to eat And apples hang from every branch to tumble at our feet. When winter comes round, our apple tree is full of snow and ice, And rabbits come to visit it... We think our tree is nice. by: Marchette Chute
Shake, shake the apple tree Apples red and rosy Shake, shake the apple tree Apples red and rosy. One for you One for me Shake shake the apple tree

Activities

Last year there was a project for apple tasting by Alice Simpson. She had selected 4 apple varieties, had the participating classes taste them and vote on their favorites, then send her the results. She then posted the class/school and told its favorite. The receiving classes could make graphs, or whatever.

Sit in a circle. Cut off slices and have the children taste them. Then voted by putting names in a graph set up for the varieties.

Have several apple products available such as apple cider, apple juice, apple sauce, etc.. Have students sample a little of each and draw their favorites on apple cut outs. Take the apples and create a graph of the favorites.

Show students in "star" in an apple by cutting through the horizontal middle of an apple.

"The Apple Of My Eye" This makes a nice bulletin board display. Have each child draw his or her self-portrait on a piece of white paper. Make a large apple on red construction paper and cut out the inside. I have patterns made up for this where the students fold the piece of paper in half and trace with a pattern and cut. This makes it very easy to cut out the inside the apple. Add a stem and leaf. Glue the white self-portrait paper onto the back of the apple so that the apple serves as a "farm" for the picture. Put an a bulletin board titled The Apples of Mrs. ________'s Eye."

Make mini booklets with a page for each season. Draw what an apple tree looks like in each season. Q-tips work great for making apples on the tree. Pink tissue paper makes nice blossoms.

Read one of the biographies of Johnny Appleseed. Have a group of students draw a large picture of Johnny Appleseed on white bulletin board paper. Color. Ask for students to recall facts about Johnny Appleseed from the story. Write each fact on an apple cut out and glue around the outline drawn on the paper.

Make applesauce with your students! Have each student bring in an apple. Peel with an apple peeler or have moms help out and peel the apples for you. Cook in crockpot and then put through a strainer. Yum-applesauce!

Make mini apple pies with canned biscuits and apple pie filling. Add a little filling to each biscuit and fold in half. Press the edges closed and bake according to the biscuit instructions. There you have it! Little apple turnovers!

Red Hot Baked Apples:
1. Wash whole apple and ream out core with apple corer or knife.
2. Slice off bottom so apple will sit flat in electric frying pan.
3. Fill core with cinnamon red hots.
4. Sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.
5. Bake in covered electric fry pan at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
6. Cool 10 minutes
7. Eat and enjoy!

The following activities are from the AIMS Educational Foundation
September 1990 Newsletter

Have each student bring in an apple from home. On a graphing mat graph the apples by size, color, etc..Pick one of the sorting categories and have the students copy it onto a piece of graph paper for a representational graph.

All Around the Apple: This is a picture of my apple. The color of my apple is ____________. (Draw a picture of apple.)

The mass of my apple is the same as _______________ teddy bears. (teddy bear counters)

Measure around the apple with a string.
The string measures the same as a train of _______unifix cubes or ______teddy bears.

Apple Parts

Cut your apple in half. Make a sketch of each piece.

How many parts all together? Each part if called one-__________ or 1/2.

Cut each half in two parts. Make a sketch of each piece now.

How many pieces all together?______

Each piece is called one __________ or 1/4.

Taste a piece of the apple. Write about your apple.

-The September 1993 AIMS Newsletter also focuses on apples and the amount of water in them. I didn't post the information here because it is quite lengthy and is more appropriate for higher grades.

Books

An Apple a Day- Patent, Dorothy

Apple Pie Tree- Hall, Zoe

An Apple Tree through the Year- Schnieper, Claudia

Apple Trees- Saunders Smith, Gail

Apples- Nottridge, Rhoda

From Seed to Applesauce Johnson, Hannah

My Apple- Davies, Kay

Better Known as Johnny Appleseed- Hunt, Mabel

Johnny Appleseed- Demuth, Patricia

Johnny Appleseed-Norman, Gertrude

Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale- Kellogg, Steven

The Story of Johnny Appleseed- Aliki

The True Tale of Johnny Appleseed- Hodges, Margaret

Apple Tree Christmas- Noble, Trinka Hakes

Apples and Pumpkins- Rockwell, Anne

The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree- Gibbons, Gail

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