I had truly planned on working with some fall type books this week, like books about pumpkins but it just so happened that we are reading about Johnny Appleseed in our school week. I know everybody else did their Johnny Appleseed stuff in September when it was his birthday but I am following a different schedule and we are just now getting to learn about him. So I figured we might as well do some fun things with apples. The book I chose is Ten Apples On Top! by Theo. LeSieg The version I have is one that I found at a used book sale here in my country and it is probably the same version I read when I was a child. It is an old copy. It smells old, looks old, but it is good. The cover is worn and taped but we can still read it and love it.
We started or apple study by filling out a KWL chart about apples and then worked on the life cycle of an apple by Wild About Teaching (link below).
We talked about the parts of an apple and labeled them on this worksheet.
We practiced our number words by creating this mini book about apples by Musings of Me (link below).
We practiced a new prayer called Johnny Appleseed, we used to sing this one when my other kids were little. J had requested we start singing this one as well. She made fingerprint apples on the tree. This printout was from Guildcraft but I couldn't find a link for it.
We taste tested one apple for snack time and she added it to her comparison sheet. The sheet asked that J make comparisons such as color, size and taste. The first apple we tried was a Gala apple and she said it was sweet. The printable is by Kinderpond.
J then painted and stamped with apples. These apples will be cut out to make an apple wreath for our front door for fall. She chose the color green to stamp with.
Turned out cute but I think it might need a bow of sorts.
She balanced an apple on her head but I couldn't get her to try more than one.
I made apple bean bags from some fleece and she balanced these on her head, then...
on her foot.
After snack time, we left an apple out on the table to see what happens. This was the first part of our science experiment by Snippets by Sarah (link below).
The experiment was to determine the best liquid that would keep an apple from turning brown. J poured milk, soda, and water into tea glasses. Then she added an apple slice to each one.
We waited overnight to see what changed and which liquid preventing the browning.
It truly surprised us to find the apple slice that sat in the milk was the least brown. The one that was placed in the water was the darkest, even compared to the apple that sat out in the air overnight.
We played a word game. I wrote words that J has been practicing on red and green apples. Then I found a clip art version of Johnny Appleseed which I hid behind one of the words in the pocket chart. She read each word, taking it off the chart, trying to find which one Johnny was hiding behind. Kaleb is helping, can you tell? We played this for awhile, practicing all of her current word families and sight words.
Hope you enjoyed our activities and found some inspiration as well. I am hoping to add more fall books, possibly pumpkins, and activities next week.
Links
Wild About Teaching has the life cycle of an apple.
Pixy Stix and Teacher Tricks has the apple KWL chart that we used.
Snippets by Sarah has the free printable for the Science experiment plus some other freebies.
Kinder Pond has the printable for the comparison of apples, sorry couldn't find the exact link but it is there somewhere.
Musings of Me I See Apples printable book can be found here.
Making Learning Fun has tons of ideas for apples and Ten Apples on Top.
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