Learning Activity 5
Areas of Learning
Apple Gathering
Primary
Language and Literacy
The Arts (Drama, Art and Design)
The World Around Us
Post-Primary
English
The Arts (Drama, Art and Design)
Learning for Life and Work
(Home Economics)
Environment and Society
Setting the Scene
If possible, bring the learners to an orchard or garden
where there is an apple tree to pick apples. Display images
of apples on a screen or on display boards around the
room.
What to Do
Place a basket in the middle of the floor surrounded by
bright red and green apples.
Encourage the learners to feel and smell the apples, and
then place them in the basket.
A suitable song:
Picking Apples
(Sung to the tune of Frère Jacques)
Picking apples, picking apples,
‘Till we’re done, ‘till we’re done,
Picking all the apples,
Picking all the apples,
‘Till we’re done, ‘till we’re done.
Hide an apple from the learners. Get the learners to close
their eyes and listen (if possible) or stand behind them, as
you take a noisy bite out of the apple. Check if any of the
learners can identify the source of the sound. Take several
more loud crunchy bites of the apple while the learners
watch and listen.
Peel some more apples using a manual apple peeler and
corer. Encourage the learners to turn the handle and watch
and then examine the twirl of skin that’s left.
Cut the apples into small slices and allow the learners to
smell, taste, lick or feel the pieces of apple.
What You Need
Recite the poem:
Worm Wiggled into an Apple
(Author Unknown)
• Large basket
• Green and red apples
• Images of apples and apple
picking (you can access
these in an online search)
• Large cardboard cut-out of
a brightly-coloured red or
green apple with a hole for
the worm or small person to
crawl through
• Large worm made from
stuffed beige coloured
stocking
• Manual apple peeler and
corer
Worm wiggled into an apple,
Worm wiggled into the core,
Worm wiggled out of the apple,
I just can’t eat anymore.
Repeat the poem and wriggle the worm through the hole
in the apple. Encourage each learner to engage in this
process.
Further Suggestions
Blackberry Picking
Take your learners blackberry picking. Support them to
safely explore the prickly thorns and leaves. Encourage
them to squeeze the soft fruit to watch the juice coming out
and smell/taste the berries. When they are back at school,
bake an apple and blackberry crumble, which you can find
on the following websites:
www.allrecipes.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/food
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes
www.bbcgoodfood.com
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