A Penny for Your Pumpkin
A Fingerplay
This fingerplay reinforces counting skills and coin recognition as well! To make this poem worth a lot of learning and fun, put five to ten felt pumpkin shades on a flannel board; then give each of the same number of children a coin. In turn invite each child to show his coin. Identify the coin (penny, nickel, dime, quarter); then have him exchange it for a pumpkin as the class recites the rhyme.
[Five] orange pumpkins in a pumpkin patch.
You know, the kind that are big, and round, and fat!
Along came a child with a [penny] to pay,
He bought a pumpkin and took it away.
Sherry Hammons, Pre-K
Tunica Elementary
Tunica, LA
The Mailbox: Preschool October/November 1999 "Fingerplays, Poems, & Rhymes: A Penny For Your Pumpkin" Page 38.
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