Chicks and Salsa

Chicks and Salsa Book Project Possibilities:

Verbal/Linguistic

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Visual/Spatial

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Logical/Mathematical

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Naturalist 

Did your parents grow tomatoes in your garden this year? If they did, they are not alone – nearly 35 million people in the United States grew tomato plants this summer! It is the most popular garden crop, which means many people like to eat them. Do you like to eat tomatoes?  Ketchup? Salsa? Pizza? Chili? If you like any of these foods, you like tomatoes!

Have these titles available for students to read--either the words or the pictures.  Discuss how tomatoes were important in the story.  

Cooking with Herb                        Jules Bass
Eating the Alphabet                       Lois Ehlert
Growing Vegetable Soup                 Lois Ehlert
Farmer's Market                           Paul Brett Johnson
Never Take a Pig to Lunch              Nadine Bernard Wescott
I Will Never NOT Ever Eat a Tomato   Laurin Child
I Eat Vegetables!                           Hannah Tofts
Vegetable Garden                         Douglas Florian

Musical
Go to Jan Brett's web site to get music and directions to have a fiesta!  Use a sombrero to perform the Mexican Hat Dance. 

Bodily/Kinesthetic
Bring in a variety of tomatoes for students to compare their size, shape, color, etc.  Instruct them to use their senses to
to help them compare.  Smell, touch, look, and taste them. Have some of the varities of tomatoes cut up if students would like to eat them.  Have them complete a Venn diagram about how they are same and how they are different. 

Intrapersonal 

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Interpersonal 

Work together as a class to prepare one of the farm animal's recipes found at the end of the story. 

Hog Wild Nachos                            Quack 

Additional Resources of Interest:

Story time ideas from Bloombury Chidren's Book   PDF 1      PDF 2