Fall Harvest
This week we read a book about another food crop we harvest: the potato. The title of the book was “Pigs Love Potatoes” by Anika Denise. In this charming counting story with simple rhymes, one baby pig wants potatoes, then his brother, then his sister, then his father, then a host of neighbors…...everyone wants potatoes! In the end, ten potatoes must be peeled, and boiled, and mashed, and finally eaten.
As a related activity, a “piggy box” was made which consisted of a pig with an open mouth stuck to a box. Children took turns feeding laminated pictures of potatoes to the pig. How many potatoes each child gave the pig was determined by using a spinner with the numbers 1 through 4 on it. The children spun, counted out the correct number of potatoes, and fed the piggy!
This activity worked on the following skills:
1. attending to a read-aloud story
2. predicting (who might arrive next and want potatoes)
3. responding to story comprehension questions
4. counting with one-to-one correspondence
5. following activity directions
6. waiting for a turn
For carryover at home, you might try:
1. make mashed potatoes with your child.....talk about the actions of peeling, cutting, boiling, draining, and mashing
2. when you buy a bag of potatoes at the grocery store, have your child guess how many are in the bag and then count them when you get home
3. take potato slices and dip in paint to make potato print artwork
4..cut off the eye of a potato, put in a bowl of water and grow your own potato plant
5. play a game of “Hot Potato” with three or more people:
Hot potato, hot potato, 1, 2 3
Hot potato, hot potato, don’t burn me
Hot potato, hot potato, 4, 5, 6
Hot potato, hot potato, better be quick
Hot potato, hot potato, 7, 8, 9
Hot potato, hot potato, down the line
Hot potato, hot potato, here comes 10
Hot potato, hot potato, in your hand!
Miss Linda and Miss Diane
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