Under the Apple Tree
It has been 200 years since he planted those apple trees and some of them are still there. The blossoms still bloom in the Springtime and produce bushels of apples in the fall.
Apples are a symbol of learning and this lens serves up a sauce of learning activities all across the curriculum.
Apple Tree Table of Contents
Baby Sleeps in Its Cradle Among the Apple Blossom Unaware of the Danger That
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- Apple Trees
- Celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day, September 26
- Johnny Appleseed plants Apple Trees
- Planting the Apple Orchard
- Parts of a Flower
- Apple Tree Arts and Crafts
- Autumn Is for Apples
- Apples in the treetops.
- Ten Apples Up On Top
- Granny Apples Counting Game
- Counting Apples
- Sing about Counting Apples in Spanish
- Apple Pie Geography
- Dried Apple Pies
- Apple Unit Studies and Lapbooks
- Favorite Apple Varieties
- Apple Train Cars
- Apples
- Apple Lenses All Around
- Christmas Apples
- Apple Tree is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
- Evelyn's Hands-On Learning Blog
- What do apple trees mean to you?
Apple Trees
The apple is the fruit of the apple tree and is a member of the rose family. It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Blossoms are produced in spring when the leaves are also budding. The flowers are white with a pink tinge that gradually fades. Each blossom has five petals.
The fruit matures in autumn. The center of the fruit contains five carpels arranged in a five-point star, each carpel contains one to three seeds.
The tree originated from Central Asia, where its wild ancestor is still found today.
At least 55 million tonnes of apples were grown worldwide in 2005, with a value of about $10 billion. China produced about 35% of this total.
The United States is the second leading producer, with more than 7.5% of the world production. Turkey, France, Italy and Iran are among the leading apple exporters.
Apple From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day, September 26
Celebrate Apples
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Johnny Appleseed
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From School Library Journal
This homespun book provides the perfect vehicle for the story of the legendary Johnny Appleseed. Lindbergh's poetic narrative, related by an elderly woman to her grandchildren, tells the story of John Chapman's life and travels, including tidbits referring to his kindness and piety, his nonviolence and bravery, and his respect for all living things.
Grandmother Hannah's tale, simply told, holds the power to mist readers' eyes. Finely crafted folk art illustrations, painted on canvas and overflowing with tiny details, complement quilt pattern borders on the facing pages of text. Small panels within these borders show vignettes of Chapman's life and legacy.
The full-page illustrations embellish Hannah's story and provide a clear glimpse of life on the frontier during the early 1800s.
The book includes a short introduction and a page of factual information at the end. A map on the endpapers shows the states through which Chapman travelled.
Steven Kellogg's Johnny Appleseed (Morrow, 1988) is more of a compilation of lore about Chapman's bravery and great feats of strength, while Lindbergh's quiet tale emphasizes the man's true religious nature. It's a treasure. --Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Johnny Appleseed plants Apple Trees
Planting apple trees
This book in video form tells not only the life of Johnny Appleseed but also hints at the life lived by common people at the time that Garner Rixand his family were starting to farm in Vermont.
Clearing acres of land and trying to raise enough crops to feed the family must have been difficult. They also the foresight to plant apple trees in the apple orchard and sugar maples near the house for shade and making making maple sugar and syrup. Some day the maple sugar would be used to sweeten the apple pies that Garner's wife, Betsy would bake.
Notice how old Johnny Appleseed is at the end of the book. His hair is gray but finally he is able to see the fruits of his labor. The trees are full of apples, the smell of apple pies wafts through the air thanks to Johnny Appleseed and all the farmers, like Garner Rix who had the foresight to plant apple trees.
Planting the Apple Orchard
Apple Trees in the Orchard
Colonists like Daniel Rix brought many apple seeds with them to their new land and planted their apple orchards right away. The apple trees are still there. They are old but apple blossoms in the spring and apples in the fall still grow on them.
With little care in many years the apples are wormy but by carefully cutting out the bad spots you can make some delicious apple sauce.
Read the poem The Planting of the Apple Tree by William Cullen Bryant.
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree
Apple Trees all year round
In the winter the bare branches are ideal spots to hang fruit for the winter birds.
In spring we watch the leaves and flowers begin to open up and blossom.
In summer we watch the fruit begin to ripen.
In fall we eat the juicy fruit, cut apples and dry them for apple pies and make applesauce to go on our oatmeal as the winds start to blow the leaves off and the apple tree rests for another year.
We have an apple tree outside in our yard. We watch the change of seasons as reflected by this tree. We reflect those changes in our Nature Table.
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree
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Apple Tree Arts and Crafts
Apple Trees through the Seasons
Susannah Rix might have stitched an apple tree into a sampler.
- PreschoolRock.com - Spring Blossom Tree Preschool Craft
- Bring a little bit of springtime indoors with this Spring Blossom Tree Preschool Craft. It uses popped corn as one of the materials so be sure to pop enough to enjoy a snack while you do your preschool craft.
- Fingerprint Apple Tree
- DLTK's Crafts for Kids website has instructions on doing this simple fingerprint apple or cherry tree craft.
- Apple Storytime
- Five Green Apples-song
From: Mainly Mother Goose by Sharon, Lois and Bram
Farmer Brown had five green apples
Hanging on his tree.
Farmer Brown had five green apples
Hanging on his tree.
And he plucked one apple
And ate it hungrily.
Leaving four green apples
Hanging on his tree.
Repeat with four, three, two and one - Needle Felted Red Apple
- This apple is needle felted from using 100% wool roving.
How do the Apples Feel
Point to the words and read the sentences.
The apple is happy.
The apple is sad.
The apple is...
Predictable sentences help children to understand the conventions of reading.
Children love to stand up in front of the class pretending to be the teacher.
Using a pointer with an apple on the end, they get to lead the class in reading poems about apple trees showing how the words flow from left to right and top to bottom.
- Kindergarten Apple Unit Study
- Use a pointer to point to the sentences about how the apples feel.
Autumn Is for Apples
Apple Poem
Apples are my favorite snack-
all juicy, red, and round.
I love how every tasty bite
comes with a crunchy sound.
Apples in the treetops.
My favorite Apple Tree Poem
Apples in the treetops.
Apples on the ground.
Apples in the kitchen.
Apples all around.
Apples in a basket.
Apples from a tree.
Apples for the neighbors.
Apples for you and me.
This is one of my favorite poems. I printed it out on chart paper and we use it for coral reading after Calendar Time.
You may be surprised to hear that I first ran across this poem while teaching in Costa Rica. Though the children had very limited knowledge of English, I found that poems were a wonderful way to engage them in speaking and learning the language.
We chanted the poem and acted out the words, picking apples from the apple trees and then putting them in the basket. We followed the poem by going outside to examine a mango tree and comparing it to an apple tree. Apple trees didn't produce fruit in Costa Rica at that time, however, there are new varieties growing in Costa Rica so now even the children of Costa Rica can see apple trees and eat the delicious fruit.
Ten Apples Up On Top
Counting apples from an Apple Tree
Counting apples and reading a great story. What fun!
We like to use apple stamps piled up in tens on top of stick figures. Then we skip count by 10's to see how mony we have made.
Ten Apples Up On Top! (Beginner Books(R))
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Granny Apples Counting Game
Count the Apples from the Trees
The quick Counting apple dice game. Roll them Apples! In this fast action dice game, race against your opponents to count the exact number of apples scattered in play. Watch out for birds, Worms and apple pies that take away from the total.
Granny Apples
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Counting Apples
Photo Credit: Apple Counting
on Moms Break Free Printables
To turn this worksheet into a math activity center I printed and laminated the Apple Counting Worksheet. I added red pompoms for apples and a dry erase marker.
Children place one pompom on each apple and then write the total number on the line.
To make this math activity self checking you could add a flap to the right hand side which could be flipped up to check that the numbers match.
- How Many Apples in Each Line? free printable by Moms Break
- Simple counting sheet for young children and preschool age kids which can be printed free as many copies as you with. There are eight lines of apples to counted with a equal sign and place to write in the answer.
Sing about Counting Apples in Spanish
Apple Pie Geography
Apple Pie Ingredients from all over the World
Would it be possible to make an apple pie with ingredients found only within 100 miles of your home? (See locovore)
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books)
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From School Library Journal This whimsical, geographical shopping journey, a young baker thinks of how to proceed if the market is closed.
She directs readers, via various modes of transportation, to gather seminola wheat in Italy, a chicken (for its egg) in France, bark from the kurundu (cinnamon) tree in Sri Lanka, a cow (for butter) in England, salt water and sugar cane in Jamaica, and apples in Vermont.
Processing the worldly ingredients is quickly handled, a pie is baked, and friends are invited to share.
A look around the table reveals children from all of the countries in which the foods have been found.
A recipe for apple pie appears on the last page. The brightly colored pictures are fanciful, revealing cheerful, busy people working in towns, fields, and forests of the various countries.
Dried Apple Pies
An apple poem for learning synonyms
Photo Credit: Drying Apples
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APPLE PIE(author unknown)
I loathe, abhor, detest, despise,
Abominate Dried Apple Pies.
I like good bread, I like good meat,
Or anything thats fit to eat;
But of all poor grub beneat the skies,
the poorest is Dried Apple Pies.
Give me the toothache, or sore eyes,
But don't give me Dried Apple Pies!
The farmer takes his gnarlist fruit,
Tis wormy, bitter, and hard to boot;
He leaves the hulls to make us cough,
And don't take half the peeling off.
Then on a dirty cord 'tis strung
And in a great window hung,
And there it serves as roost for flies,
Until it's made up into pies.
Tread on my corns, or tell me lies,
But don't pass me Dried Apple Pies!
This poem just seems irreverent enough that children just delight in it. We have used this poem to increase vocabulary, turned it into an illustrated book with pictures for each line and even written the book in opposites.
You love, adore, ....
Take to your heart moist pumpkin tarts.
Apple Unit Studies and Lapbooks
Apple Tree Unit Study Portfolio
The Apple Tree
Way up high in the apple tree
3 red apples smiled down at me
So I shook that tree as hard as I could
And down came an apple.
It was mmmm, mmmmm good!
- Apple Lapbook
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Favorite Apple Varieties
Which tree would you pick your apples from?
Apple Train Cars
When the apples are ripe on the trees, Train cars are loaded with apples and are transported to factories to make apple juice, apple sauce and babyfood.
Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway - Culdee & the Apple Orchard Cars
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Apples
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Apple Lenses All Around
Photo Credit: Apples from a Tree
From Everyday number stories
By George Baker Longan, Emma Serl, Florence Elledge
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Johnny Appleseed Thematic Unit
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The legend of Johnny Appleseed (aka John Chapman) is filled with fact and fiction and Steven Kellogg's humorous retelling of the story is perfect to build a thematic unit around. I have included suggested teaching / learning activities, centered arou...
Christmas Apples
Apples in the News!
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- Czech apple-grower invents apples with a Christmas motive on them. He is not a genetically modified they just have a ....
Who's Twittering about Apple Orchards
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Bushels of Apple related ideas:
Apple Blossom and a Bird's Nest
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Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780
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Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
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Robin in the Rain!
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It's springtime and one of the most popular signs of spring is the robin. Robins, with their cheery tweets and bright red breasts stand out against the disappearing snow. Cheerio, calls the robin as the rain starts to fall. This lens is a unit...
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Starry Starry Night: A Unit Study of Stars
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From Astronomy to Art this lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create starry-themed activities for both homeschool families and classrooms. Learn about Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night painting technique. Lis...
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Hands-on Math Activities
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Children learn and truly understand mathematical concepts best when engaged in hands-on activities and games. By manipulating everyday objects, playing games and finding out ways of solving everyday problems children gain a true understanding of the...
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Bluebirds of the Meadow
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Summer nears and the bluebirds start nesting along the fenceline. The children are fascinated with the way they fly back and forth to build their nests. They become the focus of our next Unit Study, Bluebirds of the Meadow. As your little bluebirds...
Apple Tree is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
Thank you to the Four Wheelers for including the Apple Tree Unit Study in their Online Unit Study Directory.
- Internet Directory of Unit Studies
- The Four Wheelers Internet Directory of Unit Studies contains a list, roughly arranged by subject, of links to unit studies that are published on the Internet.
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By the time Garner Rix's Grandson, Garner Rix Dewey was building his barn the apple trees were big enough to have a picnic under.
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- imolaK imolaK Oct 19, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
- Apple ,as symbol of learning - in Latin is "Alma Mater". I love apples and they are healthy too. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away".
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- SpellOutloud SpellOutloud Sep 1, 2009 @ 12:00 pm | in reply to SpellOutloud
- That should read, "I added this to my blog today."
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- SpellOutloud SpellOutloud Sep 1, 2009 @ 7:35 am
- Also am this up in my blog post for today!
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- SpellOutloud SpellOutloud Aug 31, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
- What a great unit. I'm working on a couple of apple activities for toddlers and needed some inspiration.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen May 25, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
- Welcome to The Nature and the Outdoors Group
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