Johnny Appleseed

It is a story of a young boy in search of a little red house that has no doors, no windows, but has a chimney on top with a star inside. Upon completing this story I take an apple out of the bag. I slice the apple across the middle, not down through the stem, inside is a star. The students are amazed. I then slice the apple in many pieces and give each child a taste of the apple. I have several extra apples, enough for all the students to have a taste. I explain the week will be filled with apple research and apple stories.
The Little Red House With No Doors
 

Math
We will discuss the apple that has been cut open. I will ask the students to guess how many seeds there are in the apple. I will cut out the core and pick out all of the seeds. The students will count as the seeds as they are picked out. When we are finished , the students will color a  paper. It is a large apple sliced through the center.
The students  will glue real apples seeds into the center of the apple when they have finished coloring.
 

Science
When the apples seeds have been picked out of the apple. We will put a few in a zip lock bag, along with a few wet cotton balls. We will tape it to our classroom window. We will check the seeds daily and chart the outcome of the seeds.

Taste Test
I will slice the apple and have a few extras so that each student has a slice of an apple.

Book: Walt Disney: Johnny Appleseed with Dennis Day
Discuss the man: Johnny Appleseed.
John Chapman, born in 1774, spent most of his life growing apple trees. On his trips through the Ohio Valley, he often made gifts of apple seeds and sprouts to the settlers there. As he traveled out west, the indians and the animals were his friends. He traveled with a pot on his head and a bag of seeds and a Bible in his sack. His neighbors began to call him Johnny Appleseed, and that is how we remember him.

Rhyme: Two Little Apples
With hand and body motions.
Way up high in the apple tree
2 red apples smiled at me
I shook that tree as hard as I could
Down came the apples
Mmmmm.... Were they good

Craft: Apple Print
Two apples will be cut different ways. We will cut one across the middle. We will cut the other down, starting at the stem and ending at the core. The students will dip these apples in colored tempera and press them on a sheet of paper. The will use several different colors for the apple print.

Read: Johnny Appleseed by
Apple Math/Taste Test

Materials:
a. Red, yellow, green, multicolored apples
b. 4 paper plates

1. Objective/Goal:
a. The students will compare and contrast colors of apples.
b. The students will sort apples by color.
c. The students will taste each  apple.
d. The teacher will place the four apples in different sections of the room.
The students will go and stand near the apple that they liked the taste of.
e. The students will count the number of students in each group.
f. The students will compare more, most, less, least, equal and unequal. They will decide which apple was the favorite.

Language Arts
1. A is for apple.
2. List all the words the students can think of describing apples.
3.  Apples:  I will read the students each sentence. I will ask them to fill in the blanks by raising their hands when they think of an answer. I will write the answers on the white board as they give them.
Apples are as crunchy as_________________.
Apples are as juicy as ___________________.
Apples are as red as ____________________.
My apple is as shiny as___________________.
Apples are as yellow as _________________.
I love to eat apples because__________________.
My favorite apple treat is___________________.
My apple is as small as____________________.
My apple is as big as______________________.
 

Color: Apple Color Sheet
Students will color capital A with the color red.
Students will color lower case a with the color green.

Craft:Apple
Students will cut out a stem and two leaves.
The students will color a paper plate. (green, yellow, red, or all three colors)
I will staple the stem to the plate.
The students can use the apples to recite the poem "Two Little Apples"
 

is for Apple

Apple Information *****	The Little Red House With No Doors
Apple Poems	Teacher Features: Johnny Appleseed Activities
Teacher Features: Apples	DLTK's: Apple Crafts

Interesting Sites

Appalachian Trail	Hiking the Appalachian Train: Lesson
About Washington State: Apples &  Johnny Appleseed