Corn, beans, and squash have been grown together by many Native nations across North America for centuries. The name “Three Sisters” comes from Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) tradition. Each plant helps the others: tall corn gives the beans a pole to climb, beans feed the soil, and wide squash leaves shade the ground to hold in water and keep weeds down. The pictures in this pack show the crops, the harvest, and the clay jars and baskets used to store it.
Each page is one picture cut into spaces. Children solve the fact in a space, find its answer in the color key at the top, and color the space. Pages 1 and 2 add; pages 3 and 4 subtract. The key gives some colors two answers, so every answer still needs working out.
A calm center or morning work for Native American Heritage Month. Have children color the circles in the key first, so the key is ready to read. Talk about why corn, beans and squash were planted together while they color.
Solve a few spaces, color them, then a few more. Check each space against the key before coloring it.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Color by code pages of corn, beans and squash, the Three Sisters grown together by many Native nations. Children add or subtract within 20 in each space and color it by its answer to finish the picture.
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