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Information and guidance

Before using the content

Introduce today’s theme of apples to the children.

• Where do apples grow?
• Do the children and their carers buy their apples from a street market, a fruit shop or a supermarket? Maybe they grow in their gardens?
• Ask the group to bring in one apple each. These can provide the basis of a nature table for the children to experience the differences within one type of fruit.
• Encourage use of the senses to explore the differences between the fruit.

Movement language

The following vocabulary will be used in the programme which teachers/carers might wish to explore with the children before listening to it: crunchy, shiny, pick, juicy, stretch, bend, polish.

Movement

Actions will be based on picking apples from a tree, stretching up high into the branches and bending down low to place the fruit in a basket. The sequence will end with a polish and bite of the crunchy apple.

Song: ‘Five little apples’

Five little apples so red and bright
Were dancing about on a tree one night
The wind came rustling through the town
One little apple came tumbling down.

The children will use fingers to represent apples and blow through cupped hands to make the noise of the wind.

Story: The rolling red apple

A boy goes to the supermarket and finds himself chasing an apple that won’t stop rolling down the aisles past all the different groceries…

See the Teacher's Notes for more information and guidance on using the content.

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