Pigs Will Be Pigs
5 total works
Mr. Pig and the piglets try to cook Mrs. Pig's favorite dish to cheer her up when she's sick. Includes a recipe for chili.
You can't have a Halloween party without candy, and Grandma and Grandpa Pig just ate the last piece. There's barely time for a quick dash to the supermarket, so Mr. and Mrs. Pig and the piglets, all in full costume, pile into the car. They plan to pick up the the candy and rush right back, but nothing is ever that simple for the Pigs. As Mrs. Pig steps into the store, she is declared the one millionth customer and wins a five-minute shopping spree! Mr. Pig and the piglets cheer as Mrs. Pig, in her Statue of Liberty costume, dashes around the store, piling her cart with canned goods, pumpkins, and of course the Halloween candy. With prices and ounces displayed in the art, readers can exercise their multiplication skills and figure out just how many Ghouly Gumdrops, Jelly Spiders, and Wiggly Worms Mrs. Pig is getting.Worn out from all the shopping, the Pigs decide that a little candy on the ride home will be just the right pick-me-up. But Pigs are Pigs after all...and who can eat just one Wiggly Worm? What will happen to the Halloween party if the Pigs show up with no candy left?
Because the Pig family has so many delays in getting to the beach, they are in for a big disappointment when they're finally ready to ride the waves.
Cost is Mr. Pig's game, and the Pigs are celebrating his birthday by putting around the mini-golf course. Along the way, the different shapes of the golf greens give readers an opportunity to explore some simple geometry concepts like angles and parallels, as well as to learn to recognize circles, octagons, hexagons, and more. Add in a surprise birthday cake, free pizza, and a banana peel, and you have the kind of comic disaster that only the Pigs could engineer.
While trying their luck at various games at the county fair, members of the Pig family find out what the odds are that they will go home as winners. Includes an explanation of odds and probability.