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The Strawberry Patch

*Thanks to all the members of
TA who
contributed information*
Books:
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo
The Poky
Little Puppy - remember the pictures of him in the
strawberry patch?
The
Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry
Bear ~ Audrey Wood
The
First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story ~ Joseph Bruchac
Strawberry Shortcake series
Strawberries Are Red ~ Petr Horacek
Sweet
Strawberries ~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Berries
For the Queen: A Book About Patience ~ Janet Noonan
Arianna
and the Strawberry Tea ~ Maria F. Faulconer
My
Mother Plants Strawberries Big Book ~ Ada Alma Flor
Will You
Take Me to Town On Strawberry Day? ~ Marilyn Singer
Dudley
and the Strawberry Shake ~ Peter Cross

It's a
Strawberry Fact!
Strawberries

Strawberries are good,
Strawberries are fine.
I love strawberries so much,
I eat them all the time!
~
Author Unknown ~
Stuffed Strawberries: Fingerpaint a large sheet of
paper with red paint. When the paint is dry, use
green Bingo stampers to add green dots to the paper. (it's
OK if the green looks more black than green) When
all paint is dry, fold the paper in half with the paint to
the outside. Starting at the fold line, cut a
strawberry shape ... DO NOT CUT DOWN THE FOLD LINE.
Staple the sides of the strawberry leaving an opening to
stuff it. Cut two identical stems with leaf "caps"
from green construction paper. Stuff the strawberry
and staple between the leaves and stem. You can
making tracing templates for the students to trace off the
strawberry and the stem/leaves, or just run the
stem/leaves pattern through the copy machine. Then
they could cut out their own strawberry, stem and leaves.
Read Cook-a-Doodle-Doo and make mini strawberry shortcakes.
Math Facts: Here is a math game that could be a
file folder game---the strawberries have math facts on them (3
+2, 5 + 4). Print the strawberries on red paper. On the file
folder (or a posterboard) draw some vines. Draw a 5 vine, a 9
vine, etc. The kids will have to place the strawberries on
the right vine. Each vine will have multiple
strawberries. Ex. 9 vine = (5+4), (6+3), (7+2), etc.
Shared by Janna
Strawberry Taste Test: fresh strawberries, strawberries
dipped in chocolate, strawberry ice cream, strawberry shake,
strawberry pie, strawberry cake, strawberry shortcake,
strawberry jam, strawberry jello, strawberry bread, strawberry
muffins, strawberry jigglers, strawberry yogurt, strawberry
smoothie, strawberry Jolly Ranchers. Graph everyone's
favorite creating a pictograph using strawberry cut-outs or
pages from a strawberry notepad.
Curly
Locks

Curly
Locks, Curly Locks,
Wilt thou be mine?
Thou shalt not wash dishes,
Nor yet feed the swine;
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam
And feed upon strawberries, sugar and cream.
~ a
nursery rhyme ~
Curly
Locks printables
http://www.niteowl.org/kids/curly2.html
http://www.niteowl.org/kids/curly1.html
Making Words: This is a cute activity, but I haven't
gotten around to making it yet. A strawberry plant has
white blooms with a yellow center. Create the bloom and
write a word in the center. Laminate the bloom.
Attach a length of green yarn to the bloom and tape the end of
it to keep it from fraying. Using clipart, an Ellison
cut-out or notepad pages, create strawberries with leaf caps.
Program each strawberry with a letter to form the word on the
bloom. Laminate the strawberries and then punch a
hole in the top of each strawberry. The students will
build the word on the flower by stringing the appropriate
strawberry letters onto the vine in the correct order.
Building Sentences: Use the same format for the idea
above, but leave the word off the bloom. Program your
strawberries with words to be used for building sentences.
Word Order: This skill is on the second grade MCT test
I believe. To practice the concept, use the same format
for Making Words and Building Sentences above.
Create a sentence by programming a word on each strawberry.
Place the vine and strawberries in a ziplock bag or other
container. Only one sentence per container. The
student will remove the vine and strawberries, then create the
sentence by placing the words on the vine in the correct
order. You can give clues by using a capital letter for
the beginning of the sentence and a period after the last word
(or other ending mark).
Counting: Program strawberries without the leaf "cap"
with green dots. Use a pencil eraser or Qtip to make the
dots. Program the green leaf caps with the corresponding
numbers. Students count the "seeds" on the strawberries
and match to the correct numbers on the leaf caps.
Art Project: Cut strawberries with leaves from red
foam. Have students paint the leaves green and glue on
tiny green beads or sequins for seeds.
A
Strawberry emergent reader to purchase
Feltboard Story: Shared by Jo Kramer
I made
strawberries with red and green felt. Then I took a Sharpie
marker to make dots representing the seeds on the
strawberries. This is pretty basic because I have
preschoolers but we love it. Then we sing this rhyme....I
give the child a strawberry basket when they come up for
their turn.
Here
comes (child's name) to pick the strawberries,
Here
comes (child's name) to pick the strawberries,
Here
comes (child's name) to pick the strawberries,
Way down
south at the strawberry patch.
Pick
(number) strawberries, put 'em in your basket,
Pick
(number) strawberries, put 'em in your basket,
Pick
(number) strawberries, put 'em in your basket,
Way down
south at the Strawberry Patch.
Strawberry Necklace: I have also painted walnuts red, hot
glued a green piece of yarn on to make a necklace then cut a
stem, cut a hole in the center of that and slid it down the
yarn and glued it into place.
Shared
by Jo Kramer
Alphabet Matching:
I also
have half strawberries that match; one has the uppercase
letter on it, the other has the lower case letter on it to
coordinate with The Big Hungry Bear book when mouse cuts the
strawberry in half.
Shared
by Jo Kramer
Art:
We have
also dipped the side of a green plastic strawberry basket in
green paint then stamped it onto a sheet of paper. Then I
cut strawberry shapes and stem shape from a sponge and had
the kids stamp strawberries with stem on the basket. Then
we wrote I love (whoever) "berry" much. For older kids you
could do I love my (mom) "berry" much because........Shared
by Jo Kramer
Thanks, Jo, for sharing all your wonderful ideas!
Culminating Activity: I like to end each unit
with something yummy to eat. It's kind of becoming a
signature of mine. One of my students told a new student
that we usually end the unit with something good to eat! :)
So for this unit I would either have the students make
strawberry sundaes or strawberry shortcake. Of course,
whichever I chose would NOT have been included in the taste
test. Really good strawberry shortcake can be made using
a yellow cake mix or sliced up pound cake. Add some
thawed, frozen strawberries that have been mixed with a little
sugar on top of the cake .. juice and all. Top that with
Cool Whip. You HAVE to let it sit overnight in the frig
for this to be SCRUMPDELICIOUS! I make mine at home in a
glass casserole dish, but you could have each student make
their own in a clear, plastic cup. Have them put cubed
cake in the bottom, then layer strawberries and top with Cool
Whip. Of course if you prefer, you can use fresh
strawberries instead of the frozen. I just prefer frozen
for this. You can serve this with Strawberry Lemonade ..
YUM!
Strawberry
shakes are just strawberry ice cream and milk blended together
in the blender. Or vanilla ice cream, strawberries, and
milk.
You can
turn either of these activities into "academics" by having
students either follow oral directions, picture card
directions, or have them read and follow a simple recipe
(second grade benchmark). Afterwards you could
have them answer comprehension questions about the recipe.
Resources:
Let's Eat Strawberries booklet (TEC3507 I Can Make It,
I Can Read It - Spring - Gr. 1)
Berry Pickin' Math (The Mailbox Apr/May 2001)
Strawberry Pattern (TF0300 March Idea Book)
Red Berries .. Ripe Berries .. Strawberries (Centered
on Learning - Spring - PreK-K)
  
Links:
A
Strawberry
http://www.teachersbookbag.com/spring.html
Sweet
Strawberries
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/berries.html
3-D Fruit
Craft
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/plants/fruit/index.shtml Arts &
Crafts>Food: Strawberry
http://www.preschooleducation.com/astrawberry.shtml
Preschool
Education Snacks > Food: Strawberry
http://www.preschooleducation.com/cstrawberry.shtml
http://www.preschooleducation.com/tstrawberry.shtml
Art
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/strawberries/art.htm
Family
Fun: Delicious Strawberry Recipes
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/family/specialfeature/strawberries_sf/
Strawberry
Theme
http://stepbystepcc.com/foods/strawberries.html
Fill the
Strawberry Patch (printable)
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag204.html
The Little
Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Hungry Bear
http://www.arkansas.gov/childcare/services/printedmats/pdf/story/strawberry.pdf
Strawberry
(printable)
http://darensberries.com/COLORING/Berry1.jpg
http://www.raindrop.org/rugrat/fun/cstrawberry.gif
Strawberries (printable)
http://www.abcteach.com/Activities/strawberries.htm
http://darensberries.com/COLORING/StrawberriesThree.jpg
http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/color/strawberry.shtml
http://www.5aday.com/pdfs/kids/coloring/strawberries.pdf
http://home.t-online.de/home/Guido-Eiter/Bilder/pflanzen/002/Erdbeeren.gif
Suzy
Strawberry (printable)
http://www.agr.state.nc.us/markets/kidstuff/dotf/strawb.htm
Strawberries in basket (printable)
http://www.homespunkids.com/prodspics/8255/strawberries.jpg
Strawberry
Shortcake coloring pages
http://lnlweb.com/strawberry/coloring.html
http://www.coloriages.net/s/strawberry/index.html
http://members.fortunecity.com/colorbook/shortcake.htm
Wild
Strawberry (printable)
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/uma/urban/frve1f.htm
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/uma/urban/frve1b.htm
Strawberry
Shortcake Shrine
http://reiny.tripod.com/SSC.html
Printable
Paper Dolls (Strawberry Shortcake)
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/sscake/paperdolls.html
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