Practice numbers up to ten! Here's a printable to reinforce these numbers. 

Replay “Ten Apples Up On Top!”. This time stop and count apples on some of the pages. Use terms more than, fewer than, large, larger, largest.

You can have some nice discussions about the book and try some of these activities too!

• Talk about balancing things on heads
• Show a few pictures of people from other cultures who carry items by balancing them on their heads. Talk about why they do that.
• Try balancing pencils on fingers
• Let the students try walking with a book on their heads
• Put balancing toys in the science experiment center, or have them try stacking toys. My kids always loved seeing who could make the tallest tower with their Brio blocks!

Another activity could be "Counting 10 Apples." You'll need 10 Duplo or Lego blocks (as the 'apples'). For a competitive twist, add a die and grab 10 more blocks for another player. Take turns rolling the die and adding that many apple blocks to a tower. First to 10, wins!

And then sing the Ten Apples Up On Top Song