Preschool Storytime Theme: September 26: Johnny Appleseed Day/Apples

Opening song: Opening song: We tap hola like this

                         We tap hola like this

                          Hi-ho cherry

                          We tap hola like this

                          Continue with other verses:

                          We drop hola like this...

                          We circle hola like this...

                          We spin hola like this...

                          We toss hola like this...

                           We spin hola like this...

Reviewed the letter Aa
Found it on the alphabet chart
Talked about words that start with Aa

Book: "Johnny Appleseed" by Jodie Shepherd



Book: "An Apple's Life"




Fingerplay with shakers (I downloaded, printed and cut out pictures of each of the animals as well as 5 apples):   

“Five Little Apples”

Five little apples/
cinco pequeñas manzanas hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A CATERPILLAR.......MUNCH, MUNCH

Four little apples/cuatro pequeñas manzanas
hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A BIRD.........MUNCH, MUNCH

Three little apples/tres pequeñas manzanas hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A PIG..........MUNCH, MUNCH

Two little apples/dos pequeñas manzanas hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A HORSE.......MUNCH, MUNCH

One little apple/un pequeñas manzana hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A SCARECROW......MUNCH, MUNCH

Now the tree is bare
There are no more apples/no mas manzanas there
But when next fall comes around
Guess who'll be there?

THE CATERPILLAR
THE BIRD
THE PIG
THE HORSE
and the SCARECROW

YUM! YUM!

 

Book: "Little Apple Goat" by Caroline Jayne Church

Song with shakers and props (I printed out the letters of the word a-p-p-l-e on separate sheets of paper.):

“Apple ‘Bingo’ ”

There was a fruit, and it was sweet.
And apple/manzana was its name-o
A p p l e, a p pl e, a p p l e, and
Apple/manzana was its name-o.


There was a fruit, and it was sweet.
And apple/manzana was its name-o
Crunch- p p l e, Crunch- p pl e, crunch- p p l e, and
Apple/manzana was its name-o.


There was a fruit, and it was sweet.
And apple/manzana was its name-o
Crunch- crunch- p l e, Crunch- crunch- pl e, crunch- crunch- p l e, and
Apple/manzana was its name-o.

*Repeat song, and turn over a letter each time substituting “crunch” for the letter name.

Goodbye song: We tap adios like this

                         We tap adios like this

                          Hi-ho cherry

                          We tap adios like this

                          Continue with other verses:

                          We drop adios like this...

                          We circle adios like this...

                          We spin adios like this...

                          We toss adios like this...

                          We spin adios like this...


Craft Time:

The children each completed a dot page for letter Aa. You can find these dot pages here. 

I modified this idea for an apple collage from https://www.artycraftykids.com/art/easy-apple-collage-craft/.  I ran an apple template on white cardstock. I provided torn out pages from magazines for the children to cut red, green, or yellow pieces from. They could then glue red, yellow, or green beads, buttons, pom poms, ribbon, etc on top of the magazine scraps.

   
Apple pattern found at https://patternuniverse.com/download/apple-pattern/.