Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Planting Corn

Planting Corn Squanto's Way...Well Sort Of!


My kiddos loved learning about the Pilgrims, Native American Indians {esp. Squanto and Samoset} and Plymouth Plantation!  

One of the activities we did was planting corn the way Squanto taught the Pilgrims to do...which was burying a fish with the corn.  The kiddos enjoyed learning the reasoning behind that.

Then, I told them we were going to plant corn the way Squanto taught the Pilgrims.  They really thought I had stinky fish, dirt, and corn!  bwahahahaha  

They were quite relieved when they saw that the dirt was crushed Oreos, the stinky fish was gummy fish, and the corn was candy corn.  They LOVED this as our morning snack!!!

Thanksgiving Blessings,
Posted by Rebecca at 4:03 PM
I saw this post at The Teacher's Chatterbox and I had to ask permission to post it. I loved everything about it so I 
just copied and pasted the post here with permission. I thought this was a wonderful way to integrate Social Studies and Science. Even though the actual planting here is with food it still does has a lot of scientific merit. In my district we have spent the last several weeks on plant and animal parts and I went a little crazy with the plant part of this unit. We must have planted and replanted a ton of seeds, read a million books, made plant models and the 
list goes on which is why I love this post... This would have been so perfect for my students because they would 
have had such  great background knowledge and would have understood this part of the story. In my state we are 
not allowed to serve food of minimal nutritional value except on party days. I think this could be modified by 
using pudding for the soil and Goldfish graham crackers for the fish and maybe just sneaking in one candy corn... 
Did I just say that? Maybe just one for educational purposes? What an excellent post and thank you to Rebecca 
for allowing me to share this! 


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