Where Did the Piggies Go?

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Materials PDF

• Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch by Mary Peterson
• Piggies’ Farm Map and Piggies’ Farm: Mapped Out Route (PDF)
• Crayon or marker for each child

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Preparation

1. For each child, print one copy of the Piggies’ Farm Map.
2. Pass out a crayon or marker and a copy of the Piggies’ Farm Map to each child.
3. Display the Piggies’ Farm: Mapped Out Route where children can see it, and use it as a guide as they work on drawing the route on their own maps. You can either print out one copy, or you can display it on your iPad.

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1. Hold up Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch. Ask children what they remember about the story.
2. Tell children that you have given each of them a map of the piggies’ farm. Ask: What does the map show us? Yes, it shows what the piggies’ farm looks like and all the places they went. The places on the map are called landmarks. What landmarks do you recognize on the map?
3. Explain that as you read the story, they will mark the path or route the piggies on their maps, to show all the places the piggies went.
   • Say: Listen carefully to hear what the piggies do when they reach each landmark. Do they move over, under, around, behind, or between the landmark?
4. Demonstrate how to draw the route on the Piggies’ Farm: Mapped Out Route, which shows the route as a dotted line.
   • Read: Piggies in the pumpkin patch peek and sneak, under crinkly, clean sheets.
   • Ask a volunteer to point to the “crinkly sheets” landmark on the map. Draw a route that goes from the start location to under the sheets.
   • Continue reading: over growing, green beans.
   • Ask another volunteer to point to the beans. Draw your route to go over the beans.
5. Begin the story again. Children mark a route on their maps as the piggies move from one landmark to another.
6. Stop reading to mark your map whenever you mention a landmark. This will cue children to mark their own maps.
7. After children have completed their maps, review the route together. Ask children to share whether the piggies moved over, under, around, behind, or between the different landmarks.