Potato Rhymes

Date: 8^th April 2015

Day: Wednesday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Yummy Food

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Potato Rhymes

The soil was not ready for the planting of the potato today. Therefore, I teach the children to sing a song on potato.

We wrote down the song on a piece of mahjong paper. Then, we added in some actions. This is not just a counting song, yet, it’s also a recipe for the mashed potato. The children wanted to try it out. Therefore, after singing the song, I get the children to tell me the ingredients of the mashed potatoes. I needed to give some hints.

The lyrics of the potatoes rhymes:

One potato, two potatoes, 

Three potatoes, four

Five potatoes, six potatoes, 

Seven potatoes, more

Eight potatoes, nine potatoes, 

Ten potatoes, all

Milk and butter, milk and butter, 

mash, mash, mash, 

Salt and pepper, salt and pepper

stir, stir, stir

Mashed potato, mashed potato, 

mashed potato all. 

Finally, the children managed to search for the answer from the song. Basically, the ingredients to make the mashed potatoes are as followed:

 

1)      Potatoes

2)      Butter

3)      Milk

4)      Salt

5)      Pepper

Kian Han brought 2 potatoes to show it to his classmates. It’s quite a big one. Therefore, I suggested that we get 2 children to share one potato for the mashed potatoes. The children couldn’t tell me exactly how many potatoes do we need. Therefore, I get them to stand in pairs. However, it’s an odd number. There’s a group with three. I promised to get a big potato for their group. After counting all of them, we needed around 8 potatoes. We did some counting and mathematics sum for the children to understand numbers.

Most probably the soil will be ready by tomorrow and we shall plant the potato in the school garden.