Way up high in the apple tree

Way up high in the apple tree, 5 little apples smiled at me! So I shook that tree as hard as I could, and down came the apples and mmm! Were they good! Fun song for September!

On Monday, the kids return--many familiar, some new, and most smiling and happy to be in school. I'm happy too! I posted previously about...

Thanks to globalization we have apples all year long! Use this rhyme to teach your kids about the lives of migrant workers.

1-2-3 Come Sing and Learn With Me Do you sing “5 Little Apples In an Apple Tree” during fall? It’s one of my kiddos favorites, and a great way to practice all sorts of math skills! They especially enjoy the fingerplays I've added, and like it so much, we continue to sing 5 Little Apples through November, as we add other songs to our autumn repertoire. I added an extra stanza to the end. I figured if a child ate 5 apples, especially green ones, they'd probably end up with a tummy ache; thus…

Great song for Fall and Apple Picking Season! Sing and move along with Miss Nina to this fun Apple Song. It's to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. In this video we work on apple colors and color identification with props: when we sing the song about red apples, we use our fists; when we sing about yellow apples we use yellow egg shakers, and when we sing about green apples we use green Granny Smith apples! Use this song at home, in the classroom or online for Distanced Learning.

Need easy apple tree craft ideas for preschool or kindergarten? This free Printable Apple Tree Template is perfect for all your apple craft ideas. Celebrate apple season by Coloring it, painting it, or add tissue paper etc. There's so many cool ideas for this free apple tree pdf! Get your apple tree free printable here.

We read the poem Way Up High in the Apple tree and acted it out replacing the number 2 in the poem with different numbers 6-10. The students illustrated an apple tree and used small red pom poms to practice putting the different number of apples in their trees as we read and I changed the number in the poem. After we read and practiced putting different numbers of apples in our trees, the students drew a number tile out of a bag and painted that many apples in their tree. Then, the students…

This month is September so we are working hard to learn the Letter Aa and the sound the letter A makes. We have done several different activities this month but this is one of my favorite this

Apple themed party ideas from apple foods to apple decorations to apple games and more! A great fall party theme!

Bring fun into your classroom with rhymes and fingerplays! "Way Up High in the Apple Tree" is one of my all time old favorite finger plays. I have been using it since I started out as a preschool teacher over 20 years ago. If you don't know this simple rhyme, let me share it with you...