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41 Amazing Apple Videos for Kindergarten

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September is an exhausting but exciting month in kindergarten, full of new experiences and developing skills. As your students adjust to their environment and practice the routines you’ve established, it can help to have a video ready to play for a few minutes! This collection of apple videos will ensure that you always have what you need to supplement your apple lessons, integrate your apple theme with your academic standards, or give your students a much-needed brain break.

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Still planning your apple theme? Check out this collection of teaching ideas (including a freebie!) and this edition of the “Keeping Them Curious” series that’s all about apples!

Apple Videos for Teaching Science Standards

This first section includes apple videos that reinforce science concepts (like the life cycle of an apple, parts of an apple, seasons, etc.

A good place to start is with a read-aloud! The Apple Pie Tree (written by Zoe Hall, illustrated by Shari Halpern, and read by Bookroot Reading) uses a fictional family to explore an apple tree throughout the seasons. It also teaches about the role of pollination in apple growing. This read-aloud video is about four and a half minutes long (though I recommend pausing throughout to discuss). If you’d like to add this lovely picture book to your classroom library, you can take a look here on Amazon.

This animated simulation of the life cycle of an apple is a great visual for students. From GTAC, this short video is set to music and takes the viewer from seed to tree, through the seasons, and back to a fully developed apple.

From Lil’ Sprouts Kindergarten Prep, this video explores the apple life cycle through animation, photographs, labels, and narration. This short video also touches on pollination. At just under 2.5 minutes, it’s great for filling a few minutes during a transition.

Harry Kindergarten invites viewers into his yard to watch his arborist friend plant young apple trees in this 5-minute video. Throughout the process, Harry discusses pollination, plant needs, different varieties of apples, and the apple life cycle.

Here’s another tree-planting video. This one is a little longer, at just under 10 minutes. Ivan the Inspector takes viewers through the process of planting an apple tree, with side lessons on respecting nature, the needs of a plant, and the parts of a tree.

From SciShow Kids, this video teaches about seeds and how they grow into plants. At just under four minutes, this video covers the parts of seeds, what seeds need to grow, and how seeds germinate. Though not specifically about apples, this science video gives kids important background knowledge for understanding life cycles.

Also from SciShow Kids, this four-minute video teaches about the differences between fruits and vegetables. While teaching about the distinctions between fruits and vegetables, Jessi also describes the parts of plants and how they grow. There’s a lot of science packed into this one!

This last video in the science section is also from SciShow Kids, but goes in a different direction into food science. Students will enjoy learning a little chemistry as Jessi and Squeak teach about the Maillard reaction while making caramel apples.

Looking for more apple resources? Check out this thematic unit! It includes an informational slideshow and a variety of activities. You can see more here in the shop or on TPT.

Apple Unit for Kindergarten

Apple Videos that Reinforce Math Concepts

Here’s a set of apple videos to help you integrate kindergarten math into your apple theme!

This cute piggyback song from Teenybees counts up and down to and from 10 a few times, giving students repeated counting practice. The animated apples are accompanied by numerals, reinforcing number identification, too.

From vancemo, this read-aloud of Ten Apples Up On Top is performed musically in the style of Jason Mraz (and will probably have you and your students humming all day). Great for practicing numbers through ten, this video (like the illustrations in the actual picture book) provides lots of opportunities for one-to-one counting. The embedded video below is the shorter, board book version. You can find the longer video here on YouTube.

Continuing with the balancing-apples-on-heads theme, Super Simple Songs has made this fun counting song that involves puppet characters balancing various fruits up on top.

These apple math puzzles (in the shop or on TPT) offer practice in four kindergarten math skills!

Apple Math Puzzles for Kindergarten

Here’s another apple counting song! This one, from Kiboomers, counts five apples in the style of five green and speckled frogs. As the apples fall, students are exposed to counting backward, which offers opportunities for learning beginning subtraction concepts. You might also use this song to explore “ways to make 5.” Encourage students to come up with motions to go with the song. That will allow you to use this song as part of screen-free brain breaks, as well!

This math storybook read-aloud follows a class as they go on a very number-focused field trip to the apple orchard, counting down from 20 to 1. This book has rhyming text, offering a great literacy tie-in as well. If you’re interested in adding this picture book to your classroom library, you can find it here on Amazon.

Find more apple math with these printables—available from TPT or here in the website shop!

Apple Math Activities for Kindergarten

Apple Videos to Support Your Literacy Instruction

Next up, these apple videos will help you bring your apple theme into your literacy instruction!

Finger plays in early childhood classrooms are great for engaging little minds and bodies with literacy. This one, from Miss Nina – Music & Movement for Preschool, is easy to learn and adapt with new variations and movements. Consider writing the words on chart paper so you can incorporate shared reading into your apple theme.

This next video is a read-aloud of Johnny Appleseed (written by Jodie Shepherd, illustrated by Masumi Furukawa, and read by Early Learning Adventures With Mrs. T). Books like this one expose students to new genres of children’s literature. Johnny Appleseed offers the opportunity to talk about folktales as well as biographies. This picture book is available here on Amazon.

Once your students have background knowledge about Johnny Appleseed, they’ll enjoy this sillier retelling of his life story from Cool School. This animated video combines facts about John Chapman with fun wordplay and kid-friendly jokes.

Great for a quick literacy brain break at just over a minute long, this classic Sesame Street video reinforces the short “a” sound at the beginning of the word apple. It also introduces the vocabulary word “appetite.”

This one would also fit in the science section, but I put it here because it’s so great for practicing rhyming! Hello, My Name Is Apple by Mary Atkinson and Jane Schofield is a rhyming picture book about the life cycle of an apple. Read here by Read Aloud Edu, this book has cute illustrations and rhyming text. Students will enjoy predicting the rhyming ends of the sentences in this story. It also offers opportunities for learning new vocabulary. You can grab the book here on Amazon if you’d like to add this one to your collection!

These task boxes cover a bunch of skills with an apple theme! Find them here in the website shop or over on TPT.

Apple Task Boxes for Kindergarten - Rhyming

Here’s another read-aloud that combines social studies with literacy. Applesauce Day (written by Lisa Amstutz, illustrated by Talitha Shipman, and read by Reading in a Virtual World) follows a family as they carry on a family tradition of picking apples and making applesauce. This story is a perfect introduction to a class discussion on family traditions. It’s also a great lead-in to an exploration of goods that are made from apples. This picture book is available on Amazon at this link.

Practice story retelling with this applesauce activity. It’s one of 16 apple-themed tasks you can find here in the website shop or on TPT.

Apple Task Boxes for Kindergarten - Sequencing

Read here by KidTimeStoryTime, The Apple That Fell Far From the Tree is a story about an anthropomorphic apple who doesn’t feel like he fits in with the other apples from his family tree. He goes on a journey to discover himself, learning important lessons along the way. This book is peppered with interesting figures of speech, offering many opportunities for new learning! If you’d like to have this book in your classroom library, you can purchase it here on Amazon.

The Mouse’s Apples by Frances Stickley reminds me of a trickster tale, but also has a good dose of social-emotional learning mixed in for good measure. Read here by Reading in a Virtual World, this story tells of a mouse’s efforts not to be pushed around by a big bear (and what the bear learns from the experience). Consider doing a book comparison between this book and Arnold Lobel’s Mouse Soup! If you’d like to purchase The Mouse’s Apples, you can find it here on Amazon.

Apple Videos for Planning a Virtual Field Trip

Whether or not a field trip to an apple orchard is in the cards for your class, these videos can give them a taste of the experience right inside your classroom.

This four-and-a-half-minute video from Super Simple Play with Caitie gives viewers a highlight reel of an apple orchard visit. It includes riding in a wagon pulled by a tractor and picking a couple of different varieties of apples.

Miss Stephanie’s Virtual Learning Adventures takes us on a slightly longer visit to an apple farm (about eight minutes). She shows us the orchard experience interspersed with mini-lessons about apples and how they grow. She shows a hayride and mentions food products that are made from apples. Miss Stephanie ends her video by cutting open an apple, naming the parts, and baking an apple crisp.

In this video from Orleans County CCE, a horticulture educator teaches about apples from the setting of her family’s apple farm. Packed with interesting facts and vocabulary, this video is about six and a half minutes long.

About six minutes long, this video is another one from Harry Kindergarten. He shares photos and video footage from the actual field trip his class took to an apple orchard. This video shows some neat, behind-the-scenes areas of the orchard, including the giant refrigerated room where apples are stored and the apple sorting equipment.

Job Jams made this catchy apple song about apple-picking that’s set to footage of actual apple orchard activity. At just under three minutes, this will keep student interest while giving them an understanding of the work that takes place to bring apples to our markets.

Complete your virtual field trip by taking your kids on a fun hayride with The Laurie Berkner Band. Kids will enjoy singing along with this tune as they pretend to ride in a bumpy hay wagon!

Apple Videos with Art Ideas

A thematic unit is not complete without some opportunities for art and crafts. Here are a few apple videos with ideas you can use with your class!

At just about a minute long, this quiet directed-drawing video from Mister Brush gives students one idea of how to draw an apple.

Here’s another fun tutorial, this one from Art for Kids Hub. Students will learn how to draw silly apples falling from a tree. I love the videos from this station—they’re so kid-friendly!

If you’re looking for a simple way for your students to start painting in your classroom, this craft from Toddler at Play might offer inspiration.

Here’s another paper plate apple craft. This tutorial from New Haven Free Public Library shows us how to make apple shakers (which are similar to those used by Miss Nina in the finger play further up in the post).

Here’s a cute idea for a literacy craft from Punk Rock Preschool. This how-to video shows an example of an “A is for apple” craft.

More Apple Videos: Songs and Brain Breaks

This section includes a bushel of fun apple videos for you to use throughout your theme just to add a little (cinnamon and) spice to your routines.

Here’s Danny Go at an apple orchard with a song about climbing an apple tree. If your students are Danny Go fans, be sure to make time for this catchy tune!

Here’s another catchy song, this one from The Kiboomers. Perfect for a brain break, “Applesauce Boogie” will have your kiddos up and dancing for sure!

Have a literacy-rich brain break with this traditional song that allows students to practice vowel sounds and phoneme substitution! Brought to us by Super Simple Songs, this version of “Apples and Bananas” calls out the vowel names before each verse.

Another Harry Kindergarten apple video, this content-rich song allows students to practice vocabulary while moving to the beat.

This cute video from Treehouse Direct teaches students how to spell the word apple through a fun, rhythmic song.

This cute 5-minute Peppa Pig video follows an apple tree through the four seasons with a silly side-plot. Great for a quiet little break at the end of the day!

Another favorite character, Curious George, does some apple picking in this 5-minute episode.

This video from Little Fox – Kids Stories and Songs is about 15 minutes long, but only the first half is about apples. Divided into three short episodes, this section is an animated story about friendship and apples.

This final apple video, from Yogapalooza with Bari Koral, takes children through the apple life cycle through music and yoga poses. This video is just under ten minutes, making it a nice rainy-day activity to help students move their bodies and regain focus.

More Apple Resources

I hope this video collection has been a help. Check out more My Happy Place apple resources below. 🍎

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