Ten Apples Up on Top Block Play

From: Cutting Tiny Bites

Apple Tree Sensory Box

From: the art photo








Includes:

• Dried split green peas
• Brown craft foam tree
• Tiny rake and broom
• Small wooden scoop and buckets
• Cinnamon sticks
• Tiny red styrofoam balls
• Faux apples & metal bucket
• Felt trees (made with TP rolls)
• Red pom poms

Apple Seed Predictions

Guess My Seeds

Idea from:  Everything Preschool
Clip art: KPM Doodles

I heavily altered this idea, but the original idea came from the Everything Preschool website. 

After talking about the growth of an apple tree: seed-tree-apple-back to seed; and the parts of an apple: stem, skin, flesh, core, pips (seeds), show the students an apple and let them guess the number of seeds in it.

Record predictions on a chart, if desired.

Then carefully cut the apple open (cross-wise if you want to find the star in the middle) and count how many seeds are inside. Whose predictions were closest?

So you don't waste the apple you can have apple slices for snack.

For hands on fun: After cutting the apple in half, give each student a half and a spoon and allow them to dig the seeds out themselves.

Other ideas you could add in:
 -Concepts of half/whole

-Function of each part of the apple (stem holds apples on the tree; skin and flesh for eating and protecting the seeds; seeds for growing new trees)

Magic Mixture - Apple Dunking

From National Geographic:

YOU WILL NEED

• An apple
• Half of a lemon
• Shallow bowl
• Water
• Knife (ask a parent for help)

HERE'S HOW
Peel and slice an apple. Cover one slice with water in a shallow bowl. Sprinkle a second slice with the juice of half a lemon. Leave another slice exposed to the air. Wait about an hour, then compare. The slice with nothing on it turns brown.

WHY?
When an apple is cut open, chemicals inside the apple combine with oxygen from the air to form a brown coating. The coating keeps oxygen from getting deeper into the apple. Water protects the first slice from oxygen in the air so it stays white. Vitamin C in the lemon juice binds with oxygen, keeping oxygen away from the second slice, so it stays white the longest.

Text by Julie Vosburgh Agnone
Illustration by David Bamundo

From: Homeschool Creations

The weather is getting cooler, a few leaves are changing color and giving the hint of crisp days to come. Fall is one of my favorite seasons because of so many different things: apple picking, the pumpkin patch, colorful leaves and cool weather. Definitely something we’re looking forward to around here!

 

The Fall Fun Learning Printables includes two separate downloads, one geared toward younger Preschoolers and another for Kindergarten. You’ll find word and letter tracer sheets, early writing strips, find the different object, and beginning sound cards along with a few other fun pieces ~ the Clip & Learn Wheel, fill in the missing number, shadow matching and more.
You can download the Fall Fun Learning Printables here.  Be sure to download both parts of the pack!

Apple Theme Sensory Tub

From: I Can Teach My Child

We had a great time with this sensory tub this morning.  The oatmeal is a great texture!  Big Brother, who typically flitters from one thing to another every 5 minutes, spent 40 minutes just playing with the sensory tub!  And the only reason he stopped is because Little Brother woke up from his nap and we had to go inside to get him.  I’m all about simple, engaging versatile fun!

You may want to opt to make this an outdoor activity.  If you do this inside, I would recommend putting a vinyl shower curtain liner underneath your children so that when they are done, you can just wad up the liner and shake it off outside.  



Here’s what you’ll need:  a large tub of oatmeal, measuring cups, and apples with numbers written on them.

Use an egg carton.

Line up the numbers and have them identify them.