We have a marvelous opportunity for our children to make corn tortillas with one of our toddler parents whose family is Peruvian on October 19th. Wanting to create a more in-depth encounter for the children, we began an introduction to corn. Bekke (the best story teller I know) volunteered (okay I may have begged but she was very willing) to come to each of the primary classes and tell the traditional Native American Story of the Corn Maiden.
Following her story we had corn on the cob sampling and warm corn tortillas with butter and salt.
I also place dried corn in the studio for a provocation. Several of the children noticed that the corn kernels could be pried off the stalk. This was a great pincer activity and source of joyful concentration. The children eagerly brought me their handfuls of corn kernels exclaiming over their great work. As they did I asked how many kernals there were. This resulted in some serious counting and more prying and more counting.
The final count was 236 before the music box announced the end of class.
The corn also inspired several beautiful drawings as well as gustatory delight.
On Thursday, we shucked corn and cut it off the cob before adding it to corn bread.
We gave the used cobs to our guinea pig pals...
But kept the corn bread for ourselves. YUMMMMMMMMMM.
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