Apples -- 10/10/23

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

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Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson
The Starry Giraffe by Andy Bergmann
Apples for Little Fox by Ekaterina Turkhan

Books:
Apple Cake by Dawn Casey
The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson
Chicka Chicka 1-2-3 by Bill Martin Jr.
Hungry Bunny by Claudia Rueda
Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale by Steven Kellogg
Ten Apples Up On Top! by Theo LeSieg

Craft:  Apple Tree

- Cut out a circle for a tree top and color it green

- Glue red sequins to the circle for apples

- Color clothespin as trunk

- Clip clothespin to bottom of tree top

Extension Activities:

- Visit an apple farm or orchard to go apple picking.

- Taste test several different kinds of apples to see which is your favorite.

Apple Story Time: October 15, 2019

Books:
All for Pie, Pie for All by David Martin
From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
The Starry Giraffe by Andy Bergman *
Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson *
Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss *

Craft: Standing Apple Tree
This week's craft is based on the picture at left.  The children colored a quarter sheet of cardstock, rolled, and glued it to make into a tree trunk.  I then cut two slits in the top of the roll.  The kids then colored a cloud shape and glued on red tissue paper pieces as apples.  This makes the tree top.  The top was slid into the slits so the tree could stand.

Extension Activities:
- Conduct a taste test.  Try several different types of apples to see which your child/family likes best.
- Visit an apple farm to pick apples.

Apple Story Time: October 16-17, 2017

Books:
Apple Pie ABC by Alison Murray
Chicka Chicka 123 by Bill Martin Jr.
From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky *
Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson *
Ten Apples Up on Top! by Theo LeSieg*
The Terrible Plop by Ursula Durbosarsky

Craft: Apple
This weeks' craft was based on the picture above.  The children colored pre-cut apple tops and bottoms, leaf and stem.  They then glued them to ends three jumbo craft sticks making up the apple core.  Seeds could be colored on to the craft sticks.

Literacy Extensions:
- Go on a field trip to pick apples.
- Try different types of apples and see which kinds are your family's favorites.


Notes:
We found that the craft was easier to make if we taped the craft sticks together so they didn't move around while working with them.  We used masking tape at the top and bottom to tape them together.

Apples Story Time: October 5-6, 2015

Books:
All for Pie, Pie for All by David Martin
Found an Apple by Harriet Zierfert *
Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng
Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson *
Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins *


Craft: Paper Plate Apple
Our craft this week was very similar to the picture at left.  The children chose either a red, green, or yellow sheet of paper to rip into pieces.  They then glued them to a large paper plate.  The final step was to color and then glue a stem and leaf onto the top of the plate.

Literacy Extensions:
- It's the season to go apple picking.  Learn about how apples are grown before going apple picking with your child.
- Explore a little math with your child by having them poll the people they know to see what their favorite color of apple is.  Then make a chart of the results.


Notes:
The book Found an Apple can be sung to the tune of "Oh My Darling Clementine".

A - Alligators & Apples: January 5-6, 2014

Books:
Ants at the Picnic by Michael Dahl *
Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng *
One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes
Snip Snap! What's That? by Mara Bergman *
Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSieg

Craft: Alien Headband
Children were given two strips of cardstock (8-1/2" x 1-1/2") to color and glue into a circle for the headband.  They then colored three cardstock eyeballs.  The eyeballs were taped to half pieces of pipe cleaner which were then taped to the headband.

Literacy Extensions:
- Practice letter recognition by having your child point out all the letter "A"s in the book you are reading.  Start with the capital letters.  Then see if they can point out the lower case letters.  Finally have then point out both types.
- Talk about how some letters have more than one sound - especially vowels.  Practice the two sounds - long and short - for the letter "A".

Notes:
This is the first week of our five-month series on the Alphabet.  Each week we will focus on one letter of the alphabet.  This week we read about ants, alligators and apples.  We then made an alien headband as our craft.
Unfortunately, my voice was not up to story time this week.  I only made it through two of the books on Monday before my voice went out.
The favorite book by far was Ants at the Picnic by Michael Dahl.  Although it was a simple listing of everything the ants stole at a picnic, the kids absolutely loved it.

Fall Story Times -- Apples: October 7-8, 2013

Books:
Ducking for Apples by Lynne Berry
Johnny Appleseed by Jodie Shepherd
Max & Mo Go Apple Picking by Patricia Lakin
Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng *
Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo. LeSieg (Dr. Seuss) *
Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins *

Craft: Paper Plate Apple
Children were given a small paper plate, a craft stick, and a paper leaf to color.  The paper plate had a small slit cut in it.  The paper plate was colored as an apple with the leaf glued to the top.  The craft stick was colored as a worm and stuck through the slit in the paper plate.

Literacy Extensions:
- Discuss all the different ways apples can be prepared to be eaten (i.e. - pie, applesauce, etc).  See which is your family's favorite way to eat them.
- Try to extend the story Ten Red Apples by coming up with ten more animals that might steal the apples.  Fit the animals and their sounds into the text.

Red: A Colors Story Time - March 4-5, 2013

Books:
Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell *
Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng *
On Top of Spaghetti by Paul Brett Johnson *
Red Truck by Kersten Hamilton *
Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo Le Sieg
Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins

Craft: Fredbird Hat
A child came in wearing one of these homemade Fredbird (St. Louis Cardinals' mascot) hats in 2011 during the postseason run.  I immediately asked to take a picture knowing that we would make the craft someday.  It finally fit into one of my story time themes.  The head is made from a 8-1/2" square of red paper with black eyes and a yellow beak glued onto it.  Strips of red paper were glued to the back to make the hat band.  It was a very cute and very popular craft with the kids and adults.

Literacy Expanders:
- List foods with your child that are red.
- Talk about words that sound the same but mean different things (i.e. - red and read, their, they're and there, etc.)