Every year, we do an apple unit with the kindergarteners! Here are all read alouds, activities, and kitchen tools (for our apple taste test & applesauce) that we use to make our apple unit such a success!
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Read Alouds 📖
Apple Activities
Apple Taste Test & Applesauce
Read Alouds 📖
I like this book because it has a lot of fun apple facts in it!
Apples for Everyone
Love this book for teaching the apple life cycle!
An Apple's Life
This is such a cute fiction read aloud that fits perfectly with our apple unit!
The Biggest Apple Ever
A great fiction read aloud for our apple unit and it's a great book about friendship!
Bad Apple: A Tale of Friendship
I love this book as an example of a nonfiction apple text!
How Do Apples Grow?
I love this book because it goes through the apple life cycle and shows how apples can be turned into pie!
The Apple Pie Tree
Apple Activities
One of my favorite activities for the apple life cycle!
FREE Accordion Apple Life Cycle Craft Apple Activity Kindergarten Apple Week
The students alway love conducting our apple investigation!
*Free* Apple and Pumpkin Investigation | Science STEM Activities
I love this activity as a fine motor practice!
FREE Apple Craft Tear Art Fine Motor Activities Pre-K Kindergarten Fall Crafts
We use this during our apple taste testing activity!
FREEBIE Apple Tasting Recording Worksheet
I like using this as a graphic organizer for the students to keep track of their 5 senses while tasting the apples.
FREE Apple Observation Page | 5 Senses K-1 Science Vocabulary
Apple Taste Test & Applesauce
This apple peeler, corer, & slicer was life changing! We make applesauce with the kinders and this saves so much time. I used to hand peel, cut and core the apples and it would take hours! This made the process go so much faster!
Johnny Apple Peeler Corer Slicer Red VKP1010
I love this apple slicer! We do an apple taste test and it cores & slices the apples much faster than by hand!
OXO Apple Slicer Corer and Divider White
I use this crockpot for multiple things throughout the school year! We use it for applesauce, hot chocolate and green eggs & ham!
Crock-Pot 7 Qt Oval Manual Slow Cooker SS
We always get some granny smith apples for the students to try as our green apples!
Granny Smith Apples, 3 lb
We always get red delicious apples for the students to try as our red apples!
Red Delicious Apples, 3 lb
We always get golden delicious apples or the students to try as our yellow apples!
Golden Delicious Apples, 3 lb
This is the recipe we use for applesauce during our apple unit! It's so good and smells amazing! I love homemade applesauce!
