All About Apples

Summer: Add larger and darker green tissue paper leaves to the
Shaare m branches and dried split peas for tiny green apples (or ball up
Po e small pieces of light green tissue paper).
Fall: Attach large green tissue paper leaves and red cinnamon
Write the poem below on candies or red beads for ripe red apples.
chart paper. Then have children
pair up. Together, read aloud
the first verse of the poem.
Tell children to turn their
partners hat to the season
3 Give each child a paper plate and a
bowl. (Children can paint them, if
desired.) Show children how to align the
described in the verse. plate and bowl back to back. Then help
Continue this process for each them poke a brass fastener up through
season of the year. Extend the center of the bowl and plate to join
learning by reviewing the them together.
names of the months that are
in each season.

My Apple Tree
My apple tree in winter 4 Have children fold back the base of
each tree along the solid line. Then
have them staple the base to the plate.
Looks cold and brown and bare.
The leaves have left its branches, Tell children to space the trees evenly.
And snow is resting there.

My apple tree in springtime

Grows tiny leaves of green
And beautiful pink blossoms,
The nicest I have seen.
5 Help children punch a hole on either side of the bowl, thread
the yarn through the holes, and knot. Then invite children to
don their hats.
My apple tree in summer
Is full of leaves, you know.
I count the small, green apples
And wait for them to grow.

My apple tree in autumn

Is really best of all.
Apples now are round and red,
And they begin to fall.

Kathleen M. Hollenbeck

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Apple Tree Hat

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