It’s apple pickin’ time! (No really…it needs to hurry up and be apple picking time because I’m over the heat and humidity!) I’m super excited to share our apples fun with you! We learned about apples…we did Thinking Maps…we labeled…we cooked…we painted…we ate apples and we had an apple party!!! We rocked apple week!
Apples Research Project!
We use our apples research project for our apple unit!
This is our very first schema map of the year!!! I am super proud of how well the ‘staches did! We did our schema (What our brains already know about apples) and then we added new learning as the week went on. We also addressed any misconceptions we had about apples!
Apple Math!
We did apple math! We read Ten Apples Up On Top! Then we drew an apple from the bag and we had to put that many apples on our head!
Ya’ll I’ve done this for 7 years and this year is my favorite. I’ve used all kinds of apples…even made my own apple stickers. This year I bought these apple stickers from Teacher Created Resource and BAM! Love how it turned out!
Apple Prints
We did apple prints. Of course. It’s a requirement.
If you’re doing apple week, you must do apple prints!
If you’re doing apple week, you must do apple prints!
I was so impressed with how almost all of my ‘staches did apple prints in patterns and rows and not just Stampin apples everywhere! I just love how their minds work! (Don’t worry…We had the mad stampers and my favorite the apple rubber who rubbed their apple all over the paper!)
Now ya’ll know I love me a good mess. But people, apple prints can be INSANELY messy! I was so worried, I took off my cute button-down shirt and my cusser says: “Mr. Greg I love your shirt!” Who knew a white undershirt was so fancy?!
BUT this year, I popped a fork into the apples for handles…and people, apple prints were so clean and fun and no stress!!! BRILLIANT! (Thanks for the tip Life Over Cs!)
Apples Party!
And of course, we ate a lot of apple treats!
We made applesauce! The ‘staches do the peeling and cutting (with plastic knives!)! Then we add sugar, cinnamon, apple juice, and water! We let our applesauce cook all day and we eat it and love it!
This year we also tasted apples and graphed our favorite! And yes, the sour granny smith apple was our favorite! I love my unique little ‘staches!
We also had apple pies…apple cider…and apple juice! It was an apple party up in our room! AND yes, that is a homemade apple pie! When it was delivered in the morning it was still warm!!! YUMMY!!
Apple STEM
We also incorporate an apple science experiment and STEM project into our apple unit!
For science, we predicted if an apple would sink or float. Then we conducted our experiment and wrote about our results!
To incorporate apples STEM, we used apples and toothpicks and challenged the students to build the tallest apple tower they could build! They worked in pairs to build their towers and then had to draw and write about the tower they built!
These science and STEM activities came from our Seasons Of Arnold’s Apple Tree Read It Up! resource!
Apple Centers!
And we even did apple hippopotamuses/centers!
Sensory Bin!
We have made our sensory bin with apple-scented rice, we have used oats and sparkly red balls and we have used red and green pom-poms for our sensory bins!
Click the picture to see how I made our sensory bin with PVC pipe!
Recipe: rice, red food coloring, apple pie spice! Add rice and a red food coloring to a ZipLoc bag. Shake! When it’s red enough, add in apple pie spice and a few drops of water. Shake! Add more food coloring if desired!
Repeat with green food coloring!
These are from our Apple Emoji creation!
The apples in our math sensory bin are from Smashing’ Apples Numbers And Counting!
Check out our Apple Research Project which is where all of our activities and centers are from!
Apple Freebies!
Click the image below to get your FREE Emergent Reader and poem!
Apple Resources
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