Apple Antics September 26-30

Before we could play and experiment with apples, we went shopping at the "Apple Store" for a variety of apples- big ones, little ones, red ones, green ones, yellow ones and even some multi-colored ones. We weighed them, bagged them and paid for them. We took turns being the customer and the cashier. We were pretty busy, because it's apple season!

We picked apples from the apple tree.

We had to climb way up high on the ladder.

To the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", we sang as we climbed:

Way up high in the apple tree

Two little apples looked down at me.

I shook that tree just as hard as I could.

Down came the apples and Mmmm, they were good.

I shook that tree just as hard as I could,

Down came the apples and Mmmmm, they were good.

The plan was to cut up our apples that we picked from the tree to make applesauce. The apples didn't make it. They got eaten before they made it to the cutting board! Oh well....

 We cut up some other apples and made applesauce for snack! We just left the peel on. We put them in a pot and added water, honey and cinnamon. When they were fork-tender, we put them in the blender. Yum!

To practice for our actual pie-making session, we experimented with cinnamon-scented playdough. Mmmm- it smelled good enough to eat. We rolled it, placed it in little pie tins, added pretend apples, poked it with forks and cut it with knives.

We used some of our apples to use for printing. We painted apple halves with red, green and yellow paint and printed them on paper. 

We read Ten Apples Up On Top by Theo. LeSieg aka Dr. Seuss.

We tried balancing apples (we used beanbag apples) on our heads. It made us kind of giggly. We tried balancing them on other body parts- knees, feet, hands and shoulders. There's no way we could balance ten apples like they do in the book!

All week we've been singing a song about a worm and some apples,

to the tune of "Three Little Monkeys":

Three little apples hanging in a tree

Teasing Mr. Squirmy Worm,
“You can’t eat me. You can’t eat me.”

Here comes Mr. Squirmy Worm as quiet as can be...

Crunch!

Two little... One little...

No little apples hanging in a tree.

But here comes Mr. Squirmy Worm

As fat as he can be!

In honor of "Mr. Squirmy Worm, we dipped pretend worms in paint and used them to paint on apple shapes.

We read How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, by Marjorie Priceman, The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall

and then we made our own little apple pies.

First, we peeled the apples with an apple peeler. This was probably our favorite part.

After they were peeled, we cut the apples into little pieces.

Then, we rolled out the dough and put it in our little pie pans. This was probably the messiest part.

We added the apples to the pan, dotted them with butter and sprinkled it all with cinnamon.

We baked them in the oven and allowed them to cool.

They smelled good and they were delicious!

Well, some of us were a little unsure...

Our vote for favorite book of the week is, Apple Trouble! by Ragnhild Scamell and Michael Terry. It’s about a little hedgehog who gets an apple stuck in her spine. Now she doesn’t fit in her new home! What will she do?..

 
It was a fun week, a productive week- a delicious week!
Next week it's spiders- probably won't be quite so delicious...