Pasta Salad

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• tricolor
• spicy
• macaroni

MATH

• Tri-color Graph
• Using tri-color pasta:
• Graph the three colors
• Which group is larger?
• Which group is smaller?
• Which group has more?
• Which group has less?

• Complete pasta patterns using tri-color pasta:
• Setup a pattern and have the child continue it:
• "green, green, yellow; green, green, ____ "

• Measure:
• Lay the pasta end to end against any item (spoon, recipestoreading recipe page, etc.)

SCIENCE

• Vegetables Or Fruit
• Fruit contain seeds and vegetables are edible parts of plants
• Observe the ingredients and decide, by scientific definition, if they are fruit or vegetable
• EXAMPLE:
• Pepper = fruit
• Carrot = vegetable

• Use pasta to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly:
• Pastina or pearl pasta = egg
• Rotini (corkscrew) = caterpillar
• Shells = chrysalis
• Farfalle (bowtie) = butterfly

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Sequencing
• Create (by drawing) or find pictures from a book or magazine of individual pictures depicting:
• A cow
• Milk being churned
• Cheese
• Mix up the images and then have your child place them in the proper order to tell the "picture" story


• Ingredient Rhyme Chart
• Have your child fill in the blanks with a word that rhymes with words from the recipe:
• EXAMPLE:
• Noodle ____________
• Carrot ____________
• Cheese ____________
• Tomato ____________



SOCIAL STUDIES

• Pasta is a popular dish in Italy; many of the pasta's names are Italian words
• Show the various pasta shapes and discuss the names
• Children can discuss if it is an accurate name for its shape
• Create a chart of pasta; write the pasta's name and picture of its translation (can be done together or individually):
• “ini” means small
• “oni” means large
• Fiori means flower
• Farfalle means butterfly
• Penne means pen (fountain style pen)
• “riga” means lines
• Spaghetti means little twine
• Fettucine means little ribbon
• Linguine means little tongue
• Rigatoni means that with lines