Peanut Butter: Lessons that Stick
Peanuts and peanut butter stick the curriculum together with games, activities, literacy bags and lapbooks for learning all across the curriculum. So let's all sing along with Raffi A peanut butter sandwich...
Peanut Butter Table of Contents
Language Arts
Reading and Writing and Peanuts
Singing about Peanut Butter
Then we brainstorm everything we know about peanuts and peanut butter. We keep a list of questions that we want answered and then I read them the book Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Bernard Westcott.
Singable Songs For The Very Young: Great With A Peanut-Butter Sandwich
Includes the song A Peanut Butter Sandwich
Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 11/29/2009) 
Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Play Rhyme
Bake the bread, squish the peanuts into peanut butter and stomp the grapes into jelly. Here is a book about a childhood favorite, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 11/29/2009)
Non-fiction Peanut Books
How do you grow peanuts?
Reading factual books to children helps to dispel myths that can form in their heads from lack of knowledge.
If you live in a climate where you can grow peanuts try to go on a field trip to see the peanut plants growing. If you live in northern climates be sure to observe how plants grow in your neck of the woods and try to take a family vacation to the south to visit the land of the peanuts.
Peanuts (Let's Investigate (Mankato, Minn.).)
Amazon Price: $27.10 (as of 11/29/2009)
From Peanut to Peanut Butter (Start to Finish)
Amazon Price: $19.93 (as of 11/29/2009)
Peanut Compound Words
- Peanut Compound Words from Mrs. Attaya's First Grade Literacy Stations
- Pea + nut = Peanut Compound Words
The child finds words on "nut shaped" brown paper that can be combined on a tan "shell shaped" mat to form compound words.
Record compound words created in peanut shaped book. Illustrate words.
Mathematical Peanuts
Peanut Math
Sorting and Skip Counting Peanuts
Peanuts in Shell Leguminous Annual Herb
Photographic Print
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Sorting and Skip Counting Peanuts
1. Take a bag of peanuts.
2. Sort the peanuts by the number of nuts in each shell. Some will have one or three nuts, most will have two.
3. Skip Count to see how many peanuts you have in all.
The Math Chef: Over 60 Math Activities and Recipes for Kids
Just as cookies go with milk and peanut butter goes with jelly, math and cooking go hand in hand. This fun-filled book shows you exactly how.
With more than 60 activities and recipes to try, you can practice math while you cook! Get a handle on measurement, multiplication, division, fractions, percents, geometry, and more, while whipping up mouth-watering treats like scrumptious stromboli slices, chewy marshmallow-fudge squares, yummy chicken nuggets, and delicious butterscotch muffins.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced cook, you too can become a Math Chef. All activities and recipes are kid-tested and require only common ingredients and kitchen utensils. There's also a helpful list of safety rules, an explanation of basic cooking skills, and a complete nutrition guide.
Amazon Price: $10.10 (as of 11/29/2009)
Social Studies of Peanuts
Peanuts through Time
The Life and Times of the Peanut
Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 11/29/2009)
A Pocketful of Goobers: A Story About George Washington Carver (Creative Minds Biography)
Relates the scientific efforts of George Washington Carver, especially his production of more than 300 uses for the peanut.
Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 11/29/2009)
Scientific Peanuts
Growing Peanuts
Gardening Wizardry for Kids
.. Peanuts traveled to Brazil, then to Portugal. The Portuguese began peanut growing in Africa as a cheap and nourishing crop to feed ...
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Musical Peanuts
Peanut Song
Peanut Butter: A Traditional Song (Let Me Read)
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The Peanut Butter Jam
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 11/29/2009)
Artistic Peanuts
Peanut Crafts
Peanut craft,
Instructions for making toys, puppets, flowers, decorations, and three-dimensional pictures from whole peanuts, peanut shells, and sawdust.
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Healthy and Fit Peanuts
Why are More and More Children Becoming Allergic to Peanuts
- Food Allergy in Kids Up 18%
- Child food allergies are up 18% since 1997. And 4% of U.S. kids now suffer food allergies, more than doubling their risk of asthma or other allergies, according to the CDC.
Why are our more and more American kids allergic to foods? Nobody knows for sure, Sampson says. But one clue comes from the fact that peanut allergies are up not just in the U.S., but in other nations that eat the same way we do.
"This seems to be primarily a phenomenon of Westernized countries, among people who have our kind of lifestyle and our kind of diet. You don't see similar things in countries in Asia or in Africa," he notes.
For example, Sampson says, children in China eat just as much peanut-based food as U.S. children do. But peanut allergy is almost unheard of in China.
"We eat peanuts dry roasted, and they eat them boiled or fried," Sampson notes. "The high temperature of dry roasting does make peanuts accrue changes that make them more allergenic."
Peanut Allergies
Allie the Allergic Elephant: A Children's Story of Peanut Allergies
"Allie the Allergic Elephant" helps children learn about food allergies and how to be a good friend when you can't share snacks.
"Allie" explains peanut allergies in a way that parents, teachers and children themselves can talk about allergies and understand them better.
Amazon Price: $10.76 (as of 11/29/2009)
Peter Can't Eat Peanuts
As the mother of a child with a life-threatening peanut allergy, this story has been instrumental in my son's development of maturity and self-sufficiency.
"Peter" is the product of a bedtime story I told my son, after I failed to find age-appropriate material from which to teach him about the seriousness of his condition without frightening him.
What I found was that my son was reciting the story along with me after only a few readings, and he was identifying with the character as well.
Then and there, I knew I had to share Peter's story with our wonderful community of parents of allergic children worldwide. Enjoy Peter, and best of luck to you and your precious child.
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The Peanut-free Cafe
Many kids know how deadly a peanut allergy can be (1 in 20 children are affected).
Amazon Price: $12.74 (as of 11/29/2009)
Read Randi's Personal Battle with Peanut Allergies
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Diagnosis: Peanut & Tree Nut Allergy
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We found out she was allergic the hard way. There was much to learn about caring for her. I soon realized that there were not a lot of handy items available to aid us, so I made them myself. I'm sharing my experience and the items I've made to help o...
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Circus Peanuts
Circus Peanuts are made from marshmallow and are flavored like bananas. They have no peanuts in them.
- Marshmallow Peanuts Unwrapped
- One of the oldest American candies, Marshmallow Peanuts were introduced in the mid 1800's.
Look Who's Chatting about Peanut Butter
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- WalterHawn
- I think a peanut butter on toast would go well, right now.
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- revertstar
- Remembering a dream of eating a peanut butter,chocolate,& sausage (!?) sandwich with sliced tomatoe ..um what?
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- thesilverbarn
- @Imageglow house smells like peanut butter now! Wrigley sits by waiting for her taste testing to start again. There went doggie diet.
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- kal011
- Mmm peanut butter toast. :) I want some tea.
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- rubyzu_badsnail
- Having a lazy day today. Still a few things left to do, but can't seem to get myself to do them. I blame the peanut butter fudge.
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Pumpkins and Place Value
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Pick the biggest pumpkin you can find. Cut off the top and smell the fresh pumpkin smell. Carving a Jack O'Lantern leads into a mathematical unit study of place value that incorporates all five senses. Counting pumpkin seeds into groups of 10...
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Apple Trees and Apple Blossoms Unit Study
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When Garner Rix moved with his family to Vermont in 1780 he brought apple seeds with him. He carefully planted those seeds which grew into trees and produced apple blossoms in Springtime and bushels of apples in the fall. It has been 200 years since...
Peanut Prattle
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- 24websurf 24websurf May 21, 2009 @ 10:13 am
- As always, Evelyn, a fascinating lens! Loved it!
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- EverythingMouse EverythingMouse May 21, 2009 @ 8:56 am
- I really loved this lens - I really do not like peanut butter so I was pleased to see that it wasn't about actually eating it!
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- jamyri jamyri Apr 3, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
- Peanut, peanut butter...jelly! Love that song! Thanks for adding me to your lens. Oh, and now I can't get the song out of my head.
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- SteveWilheir SteveWilheir Apr 3, 2009 @ 7:42 am
- You're obviously quite nutty!
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- Rewards4life Rewards4life Mar 31, 2009 @ 3:08 am
- I love your lenses, as I'll always learn something new and interesting.
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- sandyspider sandyspider Mar 30, 2009 @ 10:40 am
- Great information on peanuts.
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- Jimmie Jimmie Mar 30, 2009 @ 2:06 am
- Love peanuts and even circus peanuts! Fun learning theme!
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