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or choose a project written out here: Education Center Activity: Construction Ahead! 
PIG COUNT:Use tongue depressors. On each one write a number from one to 10 on one side at the top. On the opposite side paste pig stickers showing that number. The student if doing it themselves, looks at the pigs on one side and counts how many and then checks the back number to see if they are correct. This is number sense and recognition of numbers also. If two students want to do the center, one holds up the stick and lets the other student say the answer. If they are correct, they get to hold the stick. Run through them all until the student gets each one. Then it is the partner�s turn.
Fairy Tale Lessons (point of view)
PIG MEMORY:I made this into a file folder game to be played by one student at a time. I took a file folder and wrote on it �Pig Memory Game.� I also put this name on the tab for when I filed my activities away. I then laminated the file folder closed so that I could open only the top with a razor blade and it would be a pocket. You could use those file folders that come as pockets but these were cheaper to me since the school district provided us with file folders. I next made 6 sets of pigs in pairs. I had a picture of a pig and just made 12 copies of it -- about 2� x 3�-- and each two pigs I colored alike. I had brown, pink and black pigs. I had black pigs with white spots, pink pigs with brown spots and pink pigs with black spots. Laminate and cut apart leaving a tiny edge. Place these in a small baggie to stay together in the file folder. o play the game, turn all the cards over after mixing them up. Then choose two at a time and see if they are pairs by turning over in place. If they are not pairs you must turn them over and try again. (If you play with a partner, then it is their turn if you miss making a match but if you make a match, it is your turn until you can make no more matches.) When you try this time, turn just one in case one of the ones you had already turned over is its matching pair. You get to keep the two cards each time you make a match. The person with the most collected is the winner if you are playing with a partner. If you are playing alone, play continues until you have collected all the card matches.
Education Center Activity: A "Tail" to Tell
Alphabet Match: I used a copy of the same little pig from the above activity and made 52 pigs. This activity is to help recognize pairs of letters of the alphabet. I made all the lower case pigs gray and all the upper case pigs pink. I placed a white dot sticker on their tummies and wrote the upper or lower case letter on each after they were colored. Laminate and cut out and place lower case in one baggie and upper case in a second baggie. Place one match (make two more cards any letter -- I chose �A� and �a� to glue onto front of file folder. Place in center and above the two cards write Alphabet and below it write Match. Also write this on the tab for filing purposes. Laminate and leave sealed like an envelope except slit the top with a razor blade. One child plays with this at a time. They just have to match the two cards until all 26 pairs are made. They can refer to the wall chart if necessary. This is a good activity to help students understand which letters are pairs.
PIGQUEST
Costume Change: I have a picture of a pig standing on two feet up like a human. It is about 6 inches high and takes up half a sheet of paper. I made three costume changes for it. All three pants follow the contour of the fat pig�s body and have a belt. They are colored in different ways according to what the costume is. The first costume I made is just a jack o lantern mask and it has orange pants to go with it. The second pants is black and the mask is a wolf head. The third one is plaid orange and black pants with a mask of orange hat attached to big glasses. I am sure you could make any kind of costume you desire. Laminate and cut out everything for durability. The student can match the costumes first BUT that is not the activity completely. After that, they need to change one part to see how many ways the costume can be changed. For example: The wolf mask can have orange pants or plaid pants. The idea is to make combinations and find out how many altogether but it is not necessary to write them down. Just the idea of actually demonstrating this is enough math and it is fun too!
The Pig Mask from Jan Brett
PIG/CORN Match: I made the same little pig card in previous activities -- need 10. I put numbers on sticker dots and placed on the tummy of each pig after I colored them -- make any color. I laminated and cut out each. I made one extra for the folder cover. It has no number on it. I also made ears of corn about an inch and a half long and colored them, followed by laminating. Our xerox machine at school could make a whole page of miniature items by just having a print of one and it made it the size you chose. I put the title on he front of the file folder and a pig and a corn and laminated it and cut like an envelope. I wrote Number Sense on the tab for filing purposes. The student just matches the number of corn to the number on the pig�s tummy.
Pig Pig Grows Up * Written by David McPhail (Book Report)
PENNIES FOR THE PIGGY BANK: I had a picture of a piggy bank. I cut and pasted and put two on a page before making more. My numbers went from 1-10 -- wrote a number on each pig�s nose after coloring the pigs black, pink, gray or brown. I backed these sheets with tag board and laminated. hen I ut a container of pennies at the center with them. The students matched that many pennies by placing the pennies on the pig. They counted them to make sure it was the correct number.
Take an Electronic Field Trip to a Pig Farm classroom activities
Graphing About PIGS: On a pink piece of construction paper, place a picture of a pig in a bubble bath and a picture of a pig in a mud bath. Title it: �If you were a pig would you like a� and place the two pictures side by side. Under each picture write the appropriate words: �bubble bath?� and �mud bath?� Laminate. Then ask the students what they think. Let them take turns using an overhead pen writing their mark on the appropriate side according to the picture/words. Tabulate the results and talk about the graph. Which side had the most votes? Which side had the least votes? Read some stories of real pigs on a farm. Cover up the earlier responses with a piece of taped paper on top. Vote again. Did the responses change? Why?
Christmas Pig Pinata
Draw . Write . Now by Marie Hablitzel has a wonderful lesson on how to draw a simple pig. It also shows an example of what students can write on the bottom of their page after they have illustrated a pig.
�Pigs live on farms.
They stay in pens.
They like corn.
Pigs play in mud.�
The students can tell you what they learned about pigs and you could write their answers n sentence strips for the students to copy under their picture. They could copy one or two or how many you tell them.
This same book has �The Three Pigs� illustrated for you to learn to draw also. They wrote:
�Three little pigs built houses.
One was built of straw.
One was built of sticks.
One was built of bricks.�
Large clip art drawings of pigs
PIG COUNT: I made die cut pigs in several colors. I stapled together 7 pigs of various colors. I wrote �Pig Count� on each front. I wrote the number and the number word on each pig (used front and back and started with zero) on each booklet. If the kids are a little older in the year, they could write this themselves if they write small but they have to leave room to place tiny pig head stickers. Now they have a number book for pigs!
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