Apple Adapted Song Book & Movement Book | Music Gross Motor | OT SLP SPED

Apple Adapted Song Book & Movement Book | "Apples Everywhere" + "Moving With Apples" with Music, Movement, Gross Motor & Vocabulary

The ultimate apple music and movement bundle for back-to-school AND fall units in early childhood, special education, autism classrooms, occupational therapy, and speech therapy! This 2-book set combines an adapted song book PLUS a movement book to teach apple vocabulary through engaging music AND gross motor movement.

📖 Book 1: "Apples Everywhere" — An adapted song book sung to the familiar tune "Camptown Ladies" — teaches apple vocabulary through music and movement!

📖 Book 2: "Moving With Apples" — A movement book that targets gross motor skills, motor planning, following directions, AND imitation skills through engaging apple-themed movement activities!

🎁 PLUS Movement Cards included to extend the activity!

🎁 BONUS Apple Sorting Activity — students classify apple-related objects after the song!

★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Occupational Therapists (OTs), Music Therapists, Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Adaptive PE, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade

Sample Verse from "Apples Everywhere":

"A-P-P-L-E-S, Apples! Apples!

A-P-P-L-E-S, Apples everywhere!

In baskets on the ground —

In bushels, big and round —

A-P-P-L-E-S, Apples everywhere!"

(Sung to the familiar tune of "Camptown Ladies")

What's Included:

• Book 1: Adapted Song Book — "Apples Everywhere" (with matching pieces!)
• Book 2: Movement Book — "Moving With Apples"
• Movement Cards — for extended movement practice
• BONUS Apple Sorting Activity — classify apple-related objects
• Repeating predictable text in both books

Skills Targeted Across This Set:

🎵 Music & Language Skills (Book 1):

• Apple vocabulary (apple, basket, bushel, tree, orchard)
• Letter recognition (A-P-P-L-E-S spelling!)
• Singing along (predictable familiar tune!)
• Vocabulary labeling
• Receptive and expressive language
• Predictable repetitive text

🤸 Gross Motor & Movement Skills (Book 2):

• Gross motor skills
• Motor planning
• Following directions (with movement!)
• Imitation skills (a key ABA/SPED skill!)
• Body awareness

🍎 Bonus Sorting Skills:

• Apple-related object classification
• Categorization
• Visual discrimination

How to Use These Apple Adapted Books:

For Book 1 (Adapted Song Book): Students do body movements, match the pictures, and sing along as the teacher or therapist sings the song and moves through the pages. After the song, students complete the bonus sorting activity classifying apple-related objects.

For Book 2 (Movement Book): Students follow along as the teacher reads movement directions, imitating the movements described. Use the movement cards for additional movement practice and motor planning.

Ways to Use:

• Back-to-school music and movement (perfect for August/September!)
• Fall apple unit activities (October apple picking season!)
• Whole group circle time / morning meeting
• Fall and apple thematic units
• Speech therapy (vocabulary, apple parts, predictable text!)
• Occupational therapy (gross motor, motor planning, imitation!)
• Adaptive PE lessons
• Music therapy sessions
• Small group instruction
• 1:1 instruction
• Brain breaks and movement breaks
• AAC modeling (action vocabulary, apple/food vocabulary)
• ABA therapy (imitation skill targets!)
• Sensory regulation (movement-based input)

These books are included in the Adapted Song Books Bundle. You can learn more about that at the link below:

Adapted Song Books Bundle

For more hands-on back to school, fall or apple themed activities, please see the following links:

Hands-On Back to School Activities

Hands-On Fall Activities

Apple Themed Activities