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BLOW POP rific he Ter ® T oll: Tootsie R tory A Tasty S Dear Educator e are delighted to bring a world of basic skill-building Wand fun to your classroom through this teaching kit— The Terrific Tootsie Roll: A Tasty Story . This program is designed to stimulate a broad range of skills with ready-to- use activities based on the history of the development of the famous Tootsie Roll. This kit includes three appealing activity masters for use in the classroom, carefully designed by educators like you, for students in second through fourth grades. The activities strengthen cognitive and word skills, foster counting and addition abilities, introduce an elementary knowledge of geography, and stimulate creative thinking and writing skills. We hope you will share these valuable resource materials with other teachers in your school. Although the material is copyrighted, you may make as many photocopies as necessary. Please fill out and return the enclosed reply card. In order to keep our mailing lists current, only those teachers returning the card will remain on our list to receive future educational materials. We look forward to receiving your comments. Sincerely, Roberta Nusim Publisher Program Objectives Activity 1. To promote the cognitive skills of letter and name Same-Name recognition, counting, addition, and memory 2. To encourage geographic recognition 1 3. To stimulate creative thinking and good writing Match Game skills Concepts/Skills Covered: Activity One Same-Name Match Game Language arts skills , small- ver a hundre W d years ago e all have O , a man named Le names. Is your n tasty new candy! o Hirshfield made Dr ame here? “What shall I name a aw a line to match “I know!” he said this new candy?” h all the names. T . “I’ll name this ca e wondered. teacher will hen, your daughter, C ndy after my show you how to p lara!” But Clara’s d lay a great game. right. idn’t sound quite One day it came t motor skills, memory o him! “I’ll na E afte me them mi r her nickname, ‘T ly Mason ootsie,’” he said. A the name Too nd so, Andy Program Components tsie Roll was born. Matthew Meg an Emily T • This complete educator’s guide ootsie Juan ell the children that they Sarah Michael Eli M zabeth ason • Three reproducible student activity masters Serena are going to play a Michael Sarah Megan T A Charlie A colorful wall poster for classroom display ndy • Toots matching game with names, ie Elizabeth M atthew Charlie but that they first are going Serena Juan to create the pieces for the ©2009 TRI Target Audience game themselves. Explain that when This teaching kit has been designed for children in Leo Hirschfield made a new candy in 1896, he named it grades two through four in language arts, mathematics , after his daughter, Clara, whom he called by her and the social sciences. The activities can be tailored nickname, Tootsie. Students can go online to to suit the interests and abilities of your students. www.tootsie.com/gal_your.php to find out more about the history of the Tootsie Roll ®. Explain that How To Use This Guide nicknames do not Review the materials and schedule the activities into necessarily have to sound your daily routine. The activity masters can be used like the real name, and ask with either a small or large group. The related if anyone is called by a activities are designed to reinforce and enhance the nickname that is entirely lessons on the activity masters and include some different from his or her suggestions for younger and older students. given name. Ask students to Each activity master was designed to build on the think of some well-known previous one, but you can alter the program as you people who have nicknames. Record their responses on wish in order to serve the needs of your students. the chalkboard. After distributing a copy of Activity One to each child, ask if anyone has a name on the page. Then ask the children to draw a line connecting each name to its How To Use the Wall Poster match and color each set the same color. When they have Display the engaging wall poster in a prominent place cut them out, pairs of students can play the Same-Name in your classroom where the children can see it. Match Game. (You can have them paste each name on a • Tell students that a football field is 120 yards long 3x5 card before they play.) Lay both sets of cards out, (including the end zone) and 160 feet wide. Have face down (there should be 4 of each name—48 cards them multiply 120 x 3 and then multiply by 160 to total) and ask them to take turns turning the cards over get the area in square feet. Then have them multiply to find two that match. They might know the game as by 50 to get the square footage of the Tootsie Roll “concentration.” The person who gets the most pairs plant. Answer: 2,880,000 square feet wins the game. • Have students find locations approximately 469 and 231 miles away and relate that distance to the number of Pops and Dots produced each day. • Have students research the distance across the Related Activities Atlantic Ocean. 1. List each child’s name on the chalkboard and ask • Use the numbers on the poster and in calculations students to create a simple graph showing the most in the activities above to review place value. common names in the room. • Have students write a fun fact about themselves 2. Discuss names in general. You might want to display a incorporating numbers. large map and talk about city and state names. How many states have a city or town named “Springfield”? How did our rivers get their names? You might talk about how the streets in your town were named. Ask National Standards children what their pets are named and why. Ask if For a detailed explanation of how these anyone’s father or mother has a business with an activities meet National Standards, go to interesting name and story behind the name. ymiclassroom.com /tootsie.pdf Activity Candy Activity Colossal 3 Country Activity One ut out the puzzle pieces below carefully. Put them together in their Ccorrect place. Now color your finished puzzle. There are six Tootsie Roll factories in the United States and one in Mexico. Candy Store Candy Draw a Dot in each state where there is a Tootsie Roll factory. Your teacher or parent can help you. MEXICO 2 Country • Circle the state where you live. Concepts/Skills Covered: • Write your state’s name here: ________________________________ • Draw a triangle where our nation’s Manitoba CANADA capital is located. Activity Draw a star in all the states you have visited. Geography Ontario • North Two Carolina Tennessee North Dakota Minnesota South Carolina l Cand South Dakota Wisconsin Alabama Georgia Welcome to the Make-believe sa y S Michigan British s t Alberta o o Columbia Florida l r Iowa o e Nebraska Saskatchewan Colossal Candy Store. C Illinois Indiana Ohio Alaska Washington Key Montana Kentucky xplain that the pieces of Oregon Concepts/Skills Idaho Wyoming Quebec Colorado PEI Kansas Missouri Nevada Identifying New Utah New Brunswick Hampshire Oklahoma New Mexico Arkansas Covered: the map will fit together California Vermont Maine Color the shapes that match the Tootsie Rolls red. Texas MS Arizona Color the shapes that match the Tootsie Roll Pops blue. Louisiana Hawaii Mass. Color the shapes that match the Dots yellow. E New York RI Color the shapes that match the Junior Mints green. Connecticut geometric shapes, Pennsylvania New Jersey DE Now, using the key again, count how much it would cost to buy the to form a place that students MD WV candy on each shelf. Write the amount in the tag next to each shelf. Virginia DC How many rectangles are there on all the shelves?____________ addition and How much would it cost to buy all the Tootsie Rolls? ____________ know. After they have cut ©2009 TRI How many circles are there on all the shelves?____________ How much would it cost to buy all the Tootsie Pops?____________ How many triangles are there on all the shelves? ____________ multiplication, How much would it cost to buy all the Dots? ____________ out the six pieces carefully How many squares are there on all the shelves? ____________ money skills How much would it cost to buy all the Junior Mints?____________ on the dotted lines, ask ©2009 TRI them to fit them together and paste them on heavy paper iscuss and identify to form a map of North America. When they have Dgeometric shapes— assembled the map, tell them you are going to talk about the rectangles, circles, triangles, and squares—before you names of the states with the factories on the map: Maryland, distribute copies of Activity Two. Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Tennessee; and two countries: Mexico and Canada. These are the places where Tootsie Rolls candy is made. Ask the students to point to each state on their map. Students will then locate their state on the map. Ask them to complete the top of the page. Related Activities 1. Older students may go online to look up facts about each state where the manufacturing plants are located and record the following facts about each: population,They capital, date of entry into the Union, state bird. can report their findings back to their class or create a Explain that the manager of the Colossal Candy state bulletin board.