Autumn holiday in elementary school. Potato Festival

Potato Festival!

1st presenter : Good afternoon friends!

2nd presenter : We are glad new meeting with you.

1st presenter : Today we have the most unusual day in our most ordinary life.

2nd presenter : Why “unusual”?

1st presenter : Well, today we have a holiday.

2nd presenter : Holiday????? And who will we honor here?

1st presenter : And we will honor... Now you will find out.

Reads O. Fokina’s poem “About Potatoes”:

When from the basement dampness

She was planted in a garden bed

She was in a hurry to grow up

To see the sun and rainbow.

A strong sprout, like a tusk,

I drilled through a layer of earth,

And the first June rain

I straightened out the first piece of paper for her.

Chickens, garden gossips,

They shouted: “She has taken on neither her mother nor her father!”

But after three sunrises

The mug began to bow to her.

And suddenly - the hostess with a notch:

Have you gotten stronger, my dear?

She saw Burdock: - Hey! -

And she tore out the burlap with the root.

And two moments later

In place of green leaves

Got up with my own shadow

Gray loose hummock.

The nettle hissed maliciously,

Compressed, thrown at the boundary:

You will perish, whimsical lady,

Before us or with us!

But the potatoes remembered the sun!

I felt its ray through the earth!

The next morning I pierced the window with a leaf

And I thought: “Nothing!..”

When it's a little difficult for me

And life seems dense,

I don't cry, but I eat potatoes -

After all, she was also spudded.

1st presenter : So, we invite the hero of our occasion, Her Incomparable Majesty, Miss Potato with her retinue.

Miss Potato and her retinue - several ladies-in-waiting - enter and sit down.

2nd presenter: Dear Miss Potato, this holiday is in your honor. What do you guys think, why did we decide to honor this particular vegetable? Our people say: “Potatoes are a sucker for bread,” “Potatoes are a help to bread,” “Potatoes are a nurse.” This is true?

Addresses Potato.

Potato : Certainly. One Lithuanian fairy tale says: once a farm laborer was late for work and in response to the subsequent scolding of the landowner he explained: “Sir, please excuse me. I was late because I ate 20 dishes.” - “What 20 dishes?” - the gentleman became interested. The farm laborer began to list: “Boiled potatoes, baked potatoes, fried potatoes, soaked potatoes, crushed potatoes...”. The breadwinner potato was sometimes the only food for the poor peasant.

1st presenter : Miss Potato, where are you from?

Potato: About 400 years ago, my ancestors were found in the Indian village of Sorokota (now Peru). The tubers found were called truffles for their resemblance to mushrooms. Local residents called them “papa”; they served as the Indians’ main source of food. The Indians dug up the tubers and laid them out in the open. At night the tubers froze, and the next day they thawed in the sun. At night they squeezed the moisture out of them, and then allowed them to dry under the hot rays of the sun. This is how chunyo turned out - dried tubers that could be stored for a long time.

2nd presenter: How did potatoes become our “second bread”?

Potato: This happened much later. I was first brought to Spain in 1565. The Spaniards didn't like me because they tried to eat me raw. From Spain, potatoes came to Italy, then to Belgium and further to Austria. Countries such as France, Germany, and England did not stand aside.

maid of honor : In England, potato farming turned out to be a funny thing! Admiral Rayleigh prepared from potatoes gourmet dish, seasoned it with oil and spices and called friends. But they didn’t like the treat, since it was made not from tubers, but from stems and leaves. The admiral got angry and destroyed all the standing potatoes.

Potato: There have been worse cases: in some villages, instead of tubers, they ate potato fruits - small greenish berries that appear in place of faded flowers. And these fruits are poisonous. There was an unkind rumor about the new plant; it was nicknamed the “damn apple.”

Maid of honor : At that time, high society fashionistas pinned bouquets of potato flowers to their hair.

Potato : Yes, I must say that at that time the potato varieties were too bitter, and therefore not everyone liked them. In addition, there were many superstitions around potatoes. They said that its fruits would be born with a head and eyes like a person’s, so eating potatoes means eating human souls. People flatly refused to plant potatoes.

Maid of honor : In Russia, potatoes did not immediately take root. Officials, instead of explaining to people how to grow a new plant, acted with orders and threats: “Plant potatoes! Otherwise we’ll whip everyone!” “Potato riots” began, and troops dealt with people.

2nd presenter : And when did people finally understand that this is a tasty and satisfying vegetable?

Potato : In the 60s of the 18th century, famine began. The Medical College appealed to the Senate with a statement that The best way the fight against hunger “...consists in earthen apples.” The Senate issued a special decree: to plant potatoes everywhere. At the same time, the Russian scientist Bolotov was the first to write about the benefits of “tartofel”, as he called it.

1st presenter : Thank you all for the interesting story: Indeed, today we heard a lot of new things about ordinary, well-known potatoes.

Leading Guys, you know what, you can play with potatoes. This is evidenced by our competitions, in which I invite you to take part.

After all, when we play, we check

What we can do and what we know.

Competition "Potato Pickers"

Put shovels on your shoulders - and into the field, guys!

We are happy to work and happy to rest!

We will collect all the potatoes as soon as possible,

Let's invite all our friends for a treat!

Potato Guess Competition

Sample tasks:

  • Determine the weight of the bag of potatoes by holding it in your hand for 10 seconds.
  • How many potatoes are in a transparent bag? (The bag contains small tubers; you can watch for 10 seconds.)
  • How much does a potato tuber weigh?
  • How many red and white potatoes are in a transparent bag?
  • How many centimeters are between two plates of potatoes?
  • A certain number of potato tubers (5-7 pieces) are placed on a chair and covered with material or newspaper. After this, participants are invited and asked to sit on a newspaper, under which there are potatoes on a chair, fidget while sitting and determine how many potato tubers there are. Whoever guessed right is the winner.

"Useful tips."

  1. Peeled potatoes cannot be stored. As a last resort, you can leave it in water for an hour or two and, moreover, with whole tubers.
  2. After peeling the potatoes, place them under running cold water: they will cook faster and be more crumbly.
  3. If you need to peel potatoes in advance, store them not in water, but in a tied plastic bag until consumption.
  4. It is best to salt potatoes during cooking within 5-10 minutes. until it is completely ready.
  5. Jacket potatoes will not be boiled (which makes them unsuitable for subsequent frying) if you add more salt to the water than you would during normal cooking.
  6. Potatoes boiled in their jackets can be easily peeled if you pour cold water over them immediately after boiling.
  7. Baked potatoes with a golden crispy crust - traditional food at a rest stop. And everyone, of course, knows the usual way bake it when washed and dried potato tubers are buried in hot ashes.
  8. New potatoes are cleaned like this: mash them, put them in a bag, add salt and roll them on the table.
  9. Potatoes should be cooked over moderate heat so that they do not fall apart or burst.
  10. Potatoes must be peeled in a thin layer, since there are salts and proteins under the skin.

Leading. thank you very much for useful tips. But we know that you also wanted to hold a competition with the guys. Is it so?

Cook: yes. Spiral peel potatoes" (So ​​that the peel is a spiral ribbon, who has it longer)

We will steam, we will cook, we will bake -

After all, we don’t care about any work.

You can make so many dishes from potatoes,

You will find anything for your soul here.

And for me there is no better thing in the world,

Than mashed potatoes.

Competition “Feed the puree”

(Two people per team participate. The players sit on chairs opposite each other. Blindfolded, the players must feed each other puree from a spoon. The pair that eats all the puree the fastest wins.)

The Potato Tango competition is announcedChildren dance holding a potato between their foreheads. The couple that dances the longest wins a prize.

Competition "Potato Designer"(Cut the potatoes into circles and make a picture out of the circles)

1st presenter: We have known for a long time that potatoes in all forms are good, but do we know how healthy potatoes are? Meet our next guest Dr. Pilyulkina

Doctor

Very good! Very good! I'm just in time. I received a telegram that the children were talking a lot about potatoes, maybe they need my help?

Ooh! The eyes seem to be burning -

The boys have a fever.

I know only one remedy,

It has been tested for a long time:

They breathed over the potatoes -

Immediately everyone became healthy.

The child sneezed -

It's time to treat them with potatoes!

Let's warm up our throats!

Let's breathe in the warm steam!

Potatoes have a lot useful substances and vitamins: starch, sugar, protein. Potatoes should be stored in a cool, dark place. But if potatoes are left in the sun, then a strong poison is formed in them, which is very harmful to human health. This is solanine

Leading. Thank you Doctor .

Game with the word "Potato"

To take a big word,

Take out the letters - once and twice!

And then collect them again,

New words will come out!

Each team is given prepared cards with the word “Potato”. Large quantity The team that composed the greatest number non-repeating words.

Presenter: Ditties...

The jury gives the floor.

Ved: Our holiday is already over
What else can I tell you?
You deserve some potatoes
Call it “second bread”!

Prepared by: biology teacher of MBOU "OOSH" Ust-Lyzha village,

senior counselor Kiyasheva N.I.


Goals: to deepen and expand students’ knowledge of potato taxonomy, biology, and agricultural technology; continue the formation of independent cognitive activity; promote the development of communicative skills in students through speaking in front of an audience; instill respect for agricultural professions and interest in various types of activities.

Equipment:
tables showing potatoes and potato varieties.
library selection of books about potatoes.
an exhibition of potato crafts, an exhibition of student essays.

The guys playing the roles of “potato grower”, “agronomist”, “breeder”, “doctor”, “cook”, “Russian language teacher”, “theater actors”, “artists” - sit at separate tables, in front of each there is a sign indicating their profession .
On the board: “Those who know how to compose hymns must find the most solemn words, and the loudest singers will sing a hymn to the potatoes in the widest square with all the crowds of people!” I don’t know who it is, but I would cry listening to this anthem!” V. Astafiev.

Teacher:
An ornamental flower, a cure for all diseases, a poison that exterminates insects, a stain remover, a universal fertilizer, and finally, a food raw material from which you can make bread, starch, powder, oil, wine, coffee, yeast, chocolate, etc. etc. - isn't it tempting to have such universal product? It turns out that nothing is simpler - after all, we are talking about the most ordinary potatoes.
The potato's first name was “PAPA” - that’s what the Indians called her in her homeland in South America.
The English called it POTATO.
The Dutch and French - EARTH APPLE.
Italians-TARTUFEL.
And the Germans changed TARTUFEL to POTATO, which later became known as POTATOES.
Today we will talk about it. At our extracurricular event there are guests, representatives of different professions, one way or another related to potatoes.

So, what does the word potato mean, let’s take a look at the explanatory dictionary together with the Russian language teacher.
The word is borrowed from the German language. Potatoes are a garden plant and a vegetable. Potatoes are also the name given to the underground tubers of this plant that are used as food.
Competition 1:
Now we’ll try to play with the word “Potato”
To take a big word,
Take out the letters - once and twice!
And then collect them again,
New words will come out!
Which one of you can make up more words from the word potato?

Teacher: Guys, how are we going to hold the event without the main guest? I know! Let's ask the theater actors.

Dramatization of the poem "Quarrel"
One day a potato comes to a carrot
And he sees: the carrots are in the package.
-Carrot, carrot, please tell me:
Where are you dressed up like that today?
-Oh, you know, potatoes, I’m already leaving:
Today I was invited to the knife.
I was invited to him without you,
I won't take you with me, potato.
The potato said: “Just think, a knife!
I don't give a damn if you don't take me!
Two spoons invited me to the cabbage soup.
I’ll go without you, don’t blame me either!”
They also invited me to 3rd grade,
By the way, it’s class time right now.

Competition 2 Come up with a last name, first name, patronymic for the potato and write it without mistakes.

Historian “How potatoes appeared in Rus'” message.
Potatoes grew wild in the mountainous regions of South America. It was grown by the Indians. After the discovery of America, potato tubers also appeared in Europe, and they were then called “earth apples.” Potatoes came to our country under Peter I, who sent a bag of potatoes from Holland to his close associate Count Sheremetyev and ordered potato tubers to be sent to all regions of Russia and grown. At first, potatoes were grown in flower beds as an ornamental plant; later they tried to use their fruits for food, but they were bitter and inedible. Therefore, the peasants refused to grow potatoes and treated them with distrust. People noticed that potatoes will be born with a head and eyes like a person, and whoever eats potatoes eats human souls. Our ancestors called potatoes "devil's apple." Only potato flowers were popular, especially after the French queen pinned them in her hair and decorated her dress with them. Later, potatoes became the main food of the Russian people, and proverbs and sayings began to be written about potatoes.

Competition 3: collect a proverb and explain the meaning.
The potatoes are ripe - get down to business.
Potatoes help bread.
When the potatoes ripen, they will warm a person.

Competition 4: solve the crossword puzzle “My garden”. Having solved it, you will find out the name of the English navigator. I’ll tell you what this navigator is famous for a little later.

1. It looks red, but if you see through it, it’s white. (radish)
2.What they dug out of the ground, fried, boiled,
What did we bake in ashes, eat and praise? (potato)
3. Settled firmly in the garden bed..... (turnip)

Answer: like any plant, potatoes themselves store energy.
Potato - nose
Answer: if a person has a wide nose, then they say that the nose is like a potato.
Potato starch
Answer: Potatoes contain a large number of starch.

Teacher: Do you know why frozen potatoes are sweet? (it turns starch into sugar)
Why should you not eat green potato tubers? (in the light, starch turns into corned beef. It is poisonous)

You and your parents also plant potatoes in your summer cottages (many have talked about this in their writings), but now listen to an expert in growing potatoes - an agronomist.

Agronomist Anyone who grows potatoes should know that in its development this plant goes through 4 phases: germination, budding, flowering, ripening.
Before planting, the tubers are germinated for at least 30 days. In the spring, the soil is dug up to a depth of 30 cm. Potatoes are planted in the soil at a distance of at least 60 cm between rows, and in a row - 35 cm. When seedlings emerge and throughout the growth of the plants, weeding is carried out to loosen the crust and destroy weeds. When the plant reaches a height of 15 cm, hilling is carried out. In the fall, when the tops begin to turn yellow, they harvest.

Competition 6: planting potatoes

Potato eyes,
Not little eyes,
Come into the ground
Get in, buddies!
Lie down and mature.
Let there be tops
Green and thin
Like lace.

Teacher: But planting potatoes is not so easy, you need to answer the question.
(competition for captains)
1. How to call the stems and leaves of potatoes in one word? (tops)
2. About potatoes boiled or baked in their skins, they say that they are in what? (in uniform)
3. Where was the first time a person cooked potatoes? (on fire)
4. What part of potatoes do we use for food? (tubers)
5. How to call in one word the removal of weeds and loosening of the earth (weeding)

Teacher: Who is involved in breeding different varieties cultures? Breeders are involved in breeding varieties. Word to the Selector.
Breeder: The science of breeding deals with the development of new varieties of plants. Selection is the most effective and most profitable economic way to increase productivity Agriculture. Thanks to good results Through the work of breeders, new potato varieties are being developed. (showing different varieties of potatoes)

Competition Give 7 teams 3 varieties of potatoes (by color). Task: get potatoes into a bucket. Who has more hits? For each hit 1 point.

Doctor: potatoes are medicinal plant: fresh potato juice used for stomach ulcers, gastritis, helps reduce blood pressure for hypertension. Potato gruel is good for treating burns and eczema. IN winter time potatoes are the main source of vitamin C. In addition to vitamin C, tubers contain small amounts of vitamins B1, B2, B6, A. Potato tubers are rich in calcium, potassium, iron, iodine, and sulfur salts. Unfortunately, in the pursuit of a large harvest, a lot of mineral fertilizers. Nitrates accumulate in tubers and cause oxygen starvation of tissues, which poisons the body of humans and animals. Vitamins and dairy products help the body fight excessive amounts of nitrates. The amount of nitrates in potatoes can be reduced by culinary processing: place peeled potatoes in cold water, then drain it, fill it with a new portion of water, bring to a boil and drain it too, then fill it with fresh water until tender.

Teacher: In addition to mineral fertilizers, people also use pesticides. Let's give the floor to an ecologist, a scientist who knows everything about the connections between man and nature.

Ecologist: A passion for pesticides brings a lot of grief. They cultivate fields to destroy harmful insects and weeds. In this case, birds that feed on poisoned insects die. People suffer because poisons get into our food and water. But there is natural ways crop protection - they are called biological. One of the popular methods is hanging birdhouses. You can find other folk methods that will help save the harvest.
Competition 8
Draw a sign prohibiting the use of pesticides or large amounts of mineral fertilizers.

Cook: In our country, potatoes are called the second bread, and this is no coincidence. Potatoes have great nutritional value. The main component of potatoes is starch and proteins. Potatoes can be used to make various dishes and side dishes. It is boiled, fried, stewed, stuffed. Of great importance proper preparation potatoes: after peeling the potatoes, you need to immerse them in cold water. It is not recommended to leave it in water for a long time because it loses nutrients. It is not recommended to boil potatoes in a tin or copper bowl, as this will result in the loss of a large amount of vitamin C. When steamed, the loss of vitamin C is 2 times less than when boiled in water. Potatoes placed in cold water for cooking lose up to 50% of their vitamins, while potatoes placed in boiling water lose 10-20%.
(After finishing the performance, the cook hands out recipes for potato dishes).

Oh, delicious potatoes!
Ideal for children and adults.
He doesn't know pleasure
Who hasn't eaten potatoes?

Competition 9: who can name the most potato dishes?

The children who prepared the dishes talk about them.

Teacher: Those who know how to compose hymns must find the most solemn words, and the loudest singers will sing a hymn to the potatoes in the widest square in front of the entire crowd of people! I don’t know who it is, but I would cry listening to this anthem!”
These are the wonderful words the Siberian writer Viktor Astafiev wrote about potatoes in his ode to the “Russian vegetable garden.” We don’t know the anthem, but let’s sing the song about potatoes from the movie “Breakfast on the Grass.”

How many times at a halt
We baked potatoes.
Feast, feast
There were conversations.

Chorus: Oh potatoes, potatoes
There's a coal in the skin,
Golden sparks
Blue smoke.
And a very delicate matter
Even for a connoisseur
Brown skillfully
Potatoes have sides.

From palm to palm
You leave her
How about salting the potatoes?
Don't let it cool down.

spring water
We'll drink potatoes
And of course with you
Let's drink by the fire.

Invitation to the table.

You can make so many dishes from potatoes,
You will find anything for your soul here.
It was not in vain that we all harvested!
Come and choose whatever you want!
People know from childhood,
There is nothing tastier than potatoes!

Potato Festival

Teacher: All seasons are generous: spring decorates everything with greenery, summer does not spare the sun, and autumn is probably the richest. She generously treats us ripe fruits. After finishing the autumn work, people organize a Harvest Festival. Today we have such a holiday. And it is dedicated to the main vegetable on our table.

This time there will be a story

About the one who has six eyes,

And sometimes seven and five.

About the one whose strange eyes grew day by day,

About someone who knew me

But he didn't see me.

Think a little

What is this? (potato)

Reader 1.

In some kingdom
In some state
Not on Mars and not on the Moon -
There lived a potato in the ground.

Reader 2.
It had royal properties:
She managed to feed the people.
In a word, our speech is about
How the potatoes came into the house!

Reader 3.
About all properties, about care,
About working in the garden.
About crafts, delicious food
Today we will look in books...
There's a lot to learn
Now it's time to start...

All: “Potato Festival.”

Teacher.

So, we are going to the potato kingdom. We are met by Mrs. Potato herself with her ladies-in-waiting..

(Potato and his retinue enter to the music)

Potato: Hello guys and dear adults. I am glad to welcome you to the holiday, which is held in my honor. Perhaps you cannot find a place on Earth where potatoes are not eaten.

Presenter 1: Our people say: “Potatoes are a sucker for bread,” “Potatoes are a nurse.” Potatoes in Rus' are “second bread”. This is true?

Potato: Certainly. One fairy tale says: once a poor man was late for work and said to the master: “I was late because I ate 20 dishes.” - “What 20 dishes?” - the master became interested. The man began to list: “Boiled potatoes, baked potatoes, fried potatoes, soaked potatoes, crushed potatoes...”. The breadwinner potato was sometimes the only food for the poor peasant.

Maid of honor 1: Although it is indecent to boast,

But we came to tell you:

Excellent without potatoes

Neither eat nor dance

Even a tasty cucumber

Only good with potatoes.

Maid of honor 2: At least he's angry green onions,

And the potatoes - best friend,

From potatoes here and there

Make the right product

And it’s not for nothing that potatoes

They call it the second bread.

Maid of honor 1: In a word, we will talk about
How the potatoes came into the house!
About all properties, about care,
About working in the garden.
About crafts, delicious food
Today we will look for the answer...
There's a lot to learn
Now it's time to start...

All: “Potato Festival”.

Presenter 1: This vegetable is so familiar to us that we completely forgot that before it came to our table, it had to travel a lot.

Maid of honor 1.

500 years ago, no one in Europe knew that there was such a plant - potatoes. And how could anyone know if none of the European sailors had ever sailed to the homeland of potatoes, South America?

Maid of honor 2.

But then the ships of Christopher Columbus, the brave navigator, returned to Spain from a long voyage. The most valuable cargo that they brought home were seeds, tubers, and grains of new plants unknown to Europe.

Maid of honor 3.

Dad". This is what the Quechua Indians called potatoes. A harvest festival was held in honor of the pope. Women dressed up large tubers like dolls, sewed skirts for them from multi-colored scraps, men danced with a bag of tubers on their heads.

Mrs. Potato.

On the ship, along with the loot captured by the sailors, the Indian father, the potato, sailed to a foreign land... This is where my land travels began. At first I rode around in a carriage. A velvet bag with tubers was given as a jewel to rich nobles. When I ceased to be a rarity, the carriage was replaced by a peasant cart, and the velvet handbag was replaced by a canvas bag.

Maid of honor 1.

But in Europe they didn’t immediately understand that my main thing was tubers. One English rich man decided to treat his guests to an overseas wonder planted in his garden. Instead of digging the tubers out of the ground, the gardener collected the green balls from the bushes that hang on the stems after the potatoes bloom. These bitter, inedible potatoes were served to the guests on a silver platter.

Maid of honor 2.

Some of the guests, having tried the treat, choked, some had a distorted face, some ran out from the table... After all, they ate the potatoes from the wrong end.

Maid of honor 3.

The new product was not accepted everywhere. Potato riots even began in some places in Russia. Russian men believed the rumors that I, the potato, was a “damn apple”, it was a sin to plant it, you would pollute the land, and you would be left without bread. By order of the tsar, the rebels were flogged with rods, and the most stubborn were even exiled to Siberia. But it was not the brutal reprisals that convinced the peasants that it was profitable to plant potatoes.

Mrs. Potato.

The potato itself convinced me. Remember the fairy tale about the turnip? Why did the grandfather need a big, big turnip? To feed both the grandmother and the granddaughter - the family. Previously, in cold winters, when the rye crops froze, turnips replaced bread for the Russian peasant.

Hearty and productive Indian papa has supplanted turnips. Now it is no longer the turnip, but I, the potato, that has become the second bread for you and for all other peoples of Europe.

SKETCH

Grandfather and grandmother sitting at the table , eat millet porridge, yes they praise.

Suddenly there is a knock on the door. A young soldier brings a bag of potatoes into the hut and reads out the decree:

Herald : Everyone! Everyone! Everyone! Decree of the Emperor of All Rus' PeterI! The Emperor commands you to eat this product morning, noon and evening! Whoever disobeys this order will be sent to hard labor with his entire family!

Grandma : Oh, holy fathers, what is this happening?

Grandfather : Shut up, grandma. Eh. There is nothing to do, I need to eat this overseas thing.

Grandma : Have you lost your mind, old man? Throw that damn apple and don't anger God. We've lived without him for so many years and we'll still live without him.

Herald: Who here does not carry out the order of the sovereign? (Grandma groans and runs away) - Well, eat!

Grandfather: - What a time these are: they brought brown peas, they force you to eat.

Tests the tooth . - Ugh, what disgusting

Grandma laments: Eat, grandpa, eat! I don’t want to go to hard labor!

Grandfather: Come on help me...

They gnaw potatoes together and make sentences :

Grandfather: Our turnip is different: yellow, beautiful, sweet...

Grandma: And cabbage is good! Why do we need these peas!?? Listen, grandfather, shouldn’t we boil this product in a cast iron pot?

He takes a cast iron pot, scoops up potatoes and puts it on the stove.

Then he takes out the hot potatoes, peels the skins, and then...

Grandfather: Give me some salt, grandma, something delicious. Well, bring the pickled cucumbers here, we’ll eat them along with these potatoes! Oh, yes, the emperor, oh, well done, what a delicious treat he sent from Holland!

Presenter 1: This is how potatoes became one of the most popular products on the globe. Remember the fairy tale about the turnip? Why did the grandfather need a big, big turnip?(answers)

Presenter 2: To feed both the grandmother and the granddaughter - the whole family. Hearty and productive Indian papa has supplanted turnips. Now it is no longer turnips, but potatoes, that have become the second bread for us and for all other peoples of Europe.

Presenter 1: AND They eat it with pleasure everywhere: on holidays, at home and of course, in the school cafeteria!

Leading.

They write to us, it happened recently

General collection of vegetables.

Pepper and Parsley were there,

Cucumber, Lettuce and Leek.

Chairman Mr. Potato

I was terribly pleased and flattered

Because, chosen unanimously,

He opened and led the meeting.

Thanking everyone for their trust,

The chairman began his report...

Potato.

Everyone in the world knows about me:

The rich and those who are not rich.

Everyone prepares me in their own way:

Some cook, some fry, some bake,

But they eat me everywhere,

For this I receive glory and honor.

We have gathered here so that everyone

I told you a little about myself.

Bean.

I bring a big one benefit people,

I treat many diseases.

And as a remedy against fever

I am known to every doctor.

They make soups out of me,

The porridge is boiled and put in the salad,

And that’s always why in the markets

We Bobs are in great demand.

Carrot.

I earned myself a long time ago

People have universal love.

The hostess won't make soup without me.

And it won’t make a vinaigrette.

Not a single family can afford it

Without me there is neither dinner nor lunch.

Pumpkin.

I weigh fourteen kilos.

I'm unlikely to go up to the podium

And I ask you not to give me words.

Onion.

I'm known to all of you as a meanie!

You should try onions -

Tears will flow like a river.

I'm the angriest in the garden!

Head of cabbage.

Look - I'm Kochan!

I'm a head of cabbage!

A hundred clothes and a turban,

And it's not empty inside.

Whether you cook it or salt it,

Do as you please.

I'm crispy and fresh -

Cut with a knife and eat!

Tomato.

Everyone is happy with the tomato:

Tomatoes contain vitamin.

I will perform a solo number,

Because I'm alone!

Cucumber.

I'm an excellent cucumber

Green, large, sweet.

I'm finally fed up

Lying on a black bed.

Potato.

Although it is indecent to boast,

But I must tell you:

Excellent without potatoes

No eating, no dancing...

Even a tasty cucumber

Well done with potatoes only!

Even though the green onions are angry,

And potatoes are their best friend.

From potatoes here and there

They make the right product,

And it’s not for nothing that potatoes

Everyone calls it second bread.

I'm touched by the attention!

I close the meeting.

Leading:

We stayed a little too long
And it seems like I have no strength to get up,
But the potatoes are calling us to the field
Play, move around a little.

"Warm-up"

    Who brought potatoes to Russia? (Peter 1)

    What is a potato riot? (peasants refused to grow potatoes)

    How to call the stems and leaves of potatoes in one word? (tops)

    About potatoes boiled or baked in their skins, they say that they are in what? (in uniform)

    Where was the first time a person cooked potatoes? (on fire)

    What part of potatoes do we use for food? (tubers)

    How to call in one word the removal of weeds and loosening of the earth (weeding)

    “Plant potatoes.”

    Dig a hole (circle of paper )

    Plant (Plant potatoes on a circle ).

    Bury (Cover with a circle ).

    Weed (Run around the hole ).

    collect (The first one removes the top, the second one removes the potatoes, the third one removes the hole ).

GAME 2 " Harvesting » All participants are given a basket. You need to collect as many potatoes scattered around as possible.

There is also a house in the village,

Grandfather and grandmother livein him.

Old people live, don’t grieve,

And they are friends with work.

Grandfather: Planted this year

The vegetable garden is all potatoes.

Woman : Watered, fertilized,

Saved from pests.

The melody of the song “Nello Dolly” from the repertoire of Louis Armstrong sounds,
The Colorado potato beetle comes on stage and sings.

Bug: Hello, baby!
My name is Freddy.
Striped and beautiful
All of me is here.
My House - Colorado.
Be glad to see me
And be proud
That you have found shelter.
On potato tops
I'll go for a ride, little ones, -
You can't see it, baby,
Chips and mash! Well.
Ay like tomatoes.
It's a joy for me -
I'll eat all the potatoes at dawn. Well.

Bug: Good morning! Why are you gathered here? Oh, you have Potatoes here?!! But they didn’t invite me, the handsome Colorado potato beetle, they forgot! This is bad of you!

Grandfather: Wait, Colorado potato beetle! You may be beautiful, but you are also a known pest of fields and vegetable gardens!

Woman: You don’t let Potatoes and tomatoes grow normally!

Bug: How is this a pest? First of all, I'm the most beautiful! Secondly, I have the most fashionable jacket this season. Thirdly... (sighs). Yes, you are right, I am the biggest potato lover! And I'm not alone!

Grandfather and Baba splash on the beetles, they run away.

Grandfather: In the summer we are waiting for Antoshka to visit,

To help dig potatoes.

Woman: Here comes the daredevil

A real tomboy:

Having fun and singing

But it doesn’t work.

Song "Antoshka"

Antoshka: Yes, Antoshka is me,

I'm just sick, friends!

I look tired

My head hurts a lot.

Runny nose, cough, itchy side,

I need a doctor, he would help me

Doctor: I'm just in time!

I know only one remedy,

It has been tested for a long time:

The child sneezed -

It's time to treat them with potatoes!

They breathed over the potatoes -

Immediately everyone became healthy.

Let's warm up our throats!

Let's breathe in the warm steam!

(The doctor carries potatoes, the children inhale through their noses 3-4 times)

Antoshka: And I still have a burn. Prescribe me ointment and tablets, please!

Doctor: We'll try to do without pills! Now we will grate the potatoes and apply them to the burn.(Grates potatoes and applies the pulp to the burn, bandages it) The juice obtained from raw tubers treats not only burns, but also stomach ulcers and skin diseases. Potatoes remove from the body excess water and salt, therefore it is especially useful for people suffering from kidney and heart diseases.

That's all! And everyone is healthy!

You can laugh!

And now, friends

We can compete!

GAME 3 Children – make up scattered proverbs

    Spruce and birch - why not firewood, salt and potatoes - why not food?

    Digging potatoes, don’t wave your hands.

    Potatoes and porridge are our food.

    For the hungry, potatoes are a delicacy.

    1. The bread was born in a shaft, and the potatoes were born in a wheel.

    2. Put potatoes in okroshka, and love in action.

    3. Spruce and birch - what is not firewood, salt and potatoes - what is not food.

    4. Potatoes will never be born without labor.

    5. A ruff in the ear is good, and potatoes in a pie.

    6. The potatoes are ripe - get down to business.

    7. When potatoes ripen, they will warm a person.

Questions for parents

Is it true that

1. Potatoes should not be salted before frying.(Yes, it will release juice.)

2. The fruit of a potato is called a berry.(Yes, the fruit of a potato is called a berry.)

3. When cooking, potatoes are immersed in cold water.(No, potatoes should be placed in boiling water to prevent the vitamins and nutrients from being destroyed.)

4. Are green potato tubers poisonous?(Yes, green potato tubers, like all parts of the plant, contain solanine, which can cause poisoning; it destroys red blood cells and depresses the nervous system.)

5. If you put potatoes in the broth after sauerkraut, then it will be fragrant and crumbly?(No, the potatoes are placed before sauerkraut, otherwise it will be hard and tasteless.)

PRESENTATION “All the Interesting Things”

  • The largest potato in the world weighed 8 kg

    The Guinness World Record for peeling potatoes belongs to Saxony resident Linda Gomez, 28 years old. The Cook managed to peel 10.49 kg of potatoes in just 10 minutes.

    Potatoes became the first vegetable to experience weightlessness - they were grown on the Columbia spacecraft in October 1995.

    The UN General Assembly declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato. Since 2005, Young Potato Day has been held in many Russian cities.

    Even the “potato war” between Prussia and Austria is known. It fought for the possession of Bavaria from 1777 to 1779, and received the name “potato” because the warring countries did not want to sacrifice people, but destroyed only each other’s potato fields.

    Potato chips were invented in 1853 by mistake. The United States is the homeland potato chips. Thin and crispy potato chips are considered one of the most popular snacks in many countries. The average American consumes 5 - 10 kg of potato chips per year. Our compatriot eats about half a kilogram of chips a year.

    In Mariinsk, Kemerovo region, in 2008 they decided to erect a monument to potatoes.

    The Belgian Potato Museum opened in 1975. There is also a Potato Radio on the museum’s website, with lots of potato-themed tunes.

    The British from the city of Bowburn also believe that potatoes deserve more attention, and thereforeFebruary 2 note Potato Day .

    There are 111 varieties of potatoes in the world! New to this list are Levada and Dovira potatoes.

    The most expensive potato variety is from France. It costs about 500 euros per kilogram. According to legend, this potato was bred by the supreme god of the Incas, Viracocha.

Conclusions: respect, honor potatoes, develop new varieties, claimown annual holiday, create museums, erect monuments. Not every vegetable has such honor!

GAME 4 “Taste it” With your eyes closed, you need to determine the taste of potatoes (boil beets, carrots, peas, potatoes, cabbage)

« BAKED POTATO»

Number of participants: 8, potatoes: 7. Children move to the music; as soon as the music ends, you need to grab the baked potato.

Teacher: We learned a lot of interesting things about potatoes today. It's time to give the floor to our chef.

Cook: Most main vegetable this.

I'll tell you a secret,

With this vegetable recipes,

Like riddles and answers!

More than a thousand, probably

And everything is extraordinary!

Filling for dumplings,

And a side dish brisket fillet,

Everyone loves to eat pound

Both the boy and the girl,

And of course, everyone's bait

It will make a casserole!

Feel free to put it in the soup!

With her, my beloved, there is no limit!

eat with her cutlet recipe,

This is such a vegetable!

Presenter 2: Dear Potato! Our chefs have prepared a lot for your holiday delicious dishes. Let me bring them into the hall.

Potato: I allow you to bring it in!

Defile, tasting

Birthday people

Reader 1 :

There is a wonderful holiday in the world,

Gift champion,

Adults and children know:

It comes once a year.

Everyone loves him and is waiting for him,

A cake with candles is being baked...

Did you guess it? Without a doubt

This holiday is a birthday!

Reader 2:

Everyone born in the fall

Hearty congratulations.

And we wish you, friends,

Peace, happiness and goodness.

You study hard

Don't be stubborn, don't be lazy.

Know that the time will come:

Two times two will come in handy, labor, penmanship

And the days are on schedule.

Reader 3:

Congratulations from the bottom of our hearts
And we wish to live without troubles.

Don't upset moms and dads

And get straight A's.

Knowledge, courage, kindness

May it always be with you!

Reader 4:

The old legend says:

When a person is born -

The star in the sky will light up,

To shine for him all his life.

Reader 5:

Happy birthday!

We wish the birthday boys

So that they grow up good, brave, handsome.

Be healthy and happy,

Be smart and beautiful!

Reader 6:

We wish you to grow, bloom,

Save money, improve your health.

It is for a long journey -

The most important condition.

Let every day and every hour

He'll get you something new.

May your mind be good,

And the heart will be smart!

Today is our holiday

We all came together

To congratulate those guys

Who was born inOctober .

Stand up, those born in October. (Zolin N, Lozgacheva K., Shebleva M)

The sky turned gray in November

Autumn will soon say goodbye to us

It often rains in the yard

And today we are going to congratulate

Those guys whose birthday is inNovember

Stand up those born in November. (Golovaneva A., Mishunina N., Shiryaev N.)

Teacher: I want your stars to always shine brightly for you and never go out. Now let's listen to what is said in the horoscopes of our birthday people:

Horoscope colors:

Orange–(Julia) a color that reflects creative activity, nobility of thoughts, self-confidence. Such people are responsible and firm in their decisions. These are strong personalities who attract others with their positive approach to life. However, such people are very emotional and are not always restrained.

Yellow- (Anya) symbolizes vital energy, the color of intelligence, rationality, logical and analytical thinking. People with the name of this color are strong in character, practical, and gravitate towards exact sciences and natural history. Even if they receive a liberal arts education, they often find their calling in economics, innovation, and scientific activity.

Blue- (Masha) the color of trust, harmony, calmness, contentment. These people are self-confident, internal, protected natures. They are highly sensitive, receptive to the grief of others, spiritual, sincere, trusting, deep natures, talented individuals. They often have healing abilities.

Blue- (Gosha), the color of calm, wisdom, contemplation. People whose name corresponds to this color are devoted friends, faithful to loved ones, to their ideas and principles. They are somewhat secretive and overly restrained in expressing their feelings. In communication, they are difficult, distrustful, find it difficult to get along with people, have difficulty finding a common language with loved ones, are too strict and demanding towards them. Such people have the ability to prophecy, know how to foresee the future, and are capable of telepathy.

Green (Anastasia) is the color of harmony, stability and fortitude. People whose names correspond to the color green are warm-hearted, sympathetic, kind, indifferent to material values, but they know how to earn money and are rarely penniless. They love nature and people. They try to help everyone, but rarely receive gratitude in return. They have many envious people, whom they manage not to notice.
Green color- the color of growth, upcoming changes, the color of healing energy. These people are not afraid of difficulties, easily take risks, and know how to adapt to any circumstances. Such people are sensitive and vulnerable, they can be offended even by simple indifference towards them, especially if they are close people. They part with the offenders once and for all, but they don’t look for friends - they appear on their own, people are drawn to them like a magnet.

Violet - (Alexey) is the color of the spiritual power of a person who bears a name corresponding in vibration to this color. These people are able to penetrate into the essence of human nature, live for others, are committed to high ideals, have great opportunities for spiritual growth... They are prone to compassion and empathy. Men are very vulnerable, somewhat selfish, narcissistic. But they easily adapt to changes in life, are friendly with people, and always rush to help their loved ones.

Grey - (Sergey) the color of distrust, uncertainty. People whose names correspond to this color are not influenced and are difficult to convince them of anything. They are irreconcilable with injustice, do not tolerate lies, and can break down if faced with dishonesty and hypocrisy. They are devoted to friends to the point of self-forgetfulness.

Red - ( Ekaterina, Valeria) color of energy, physical activity and strength, determination and grit. People are sociable, love noisy companies, but are easily irritated.
These people have an uncontrollable desire to be first and unsurpassed, which is why quite a few professional athletes emerge from their number. These people are extremely talented. In a good mood, they are cheerful people, they know how to win over their interlocutor, but one carelessly thrown word addressed to them is enough to cause a flare-up of anger and irritation in them.

Teacher.

Our holiday is already over
What else can I tell you?
You deserve some potatoes
Call it “second bread”!

Performed:
primary school teacher
Foteeva Elena Nikolaevna
MBOU "Secondary School No. 7"
KamenskUralsky, Sverdlovsk region
Recommendations for use: All children love potatoes. They don't call it potatoes for nothing
"second bread". It is used to prepare different dishes. Do the children know how the potatoes turned out?
on our table? You can find out if you spend a “Potato Festival” with them.
Age of students: 911 years.
Goal: to expand children's knowledge about potatoes.
Objectives: to teach how to select the necessary material in the library and analyze and summarize
collected; develop artistic and creative abilities; cultivate respect for
working people.
Venue: in an elementary school classroom.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Design and equipment: Projector and screen. On the board: the name of the holiday;
proverbs and sayings about potatoes; wall newspaper designed by children. Exhibitions: drawings
children on the topic “What you can make with your own hands from potatoes”, collective
creative works of children “In the Village”, exhibition of abstracts “From the History of Potatoes”,
exhibition of literature about potatoes “In the garden, in the vegetable garden”, stand “Interesting about
potatoes", exhibition culinary recipes“Potato Dishes”, exhibition “About Peter 1”.
Preparatory work:
Preparations for the “Potato Festival” began long before it took place. Librarian,
teacher, the children began to look for literature about potatoes. Everyone was looking for information about the product,
which we eat every day. The children recorded the information they found in
abstract and shared them in lessons about the world around us. Two girls found very
interesting information about potatoes and placed them on the “Interesting about potatoes” stand. On
In the fine arts lesson, children drew on the topic “What can you do with your own
hands made from potatoes." During technology lessons, children were divided into groups at will and
carried out collective work “In the Village”, where the natural material was potatoes.
The librarian prepared exhibitions: culinary recipes “Potato Dishes” and “About Peter
1". I had a conversation with the children about potatoes in the library and found songs about them. Cool

The leader held the game “Potatoes” with the children after school and had fun starts with
potatoes. Parents were looking for old recipes preparing potatoes and dishes from them.
Guests: parents, primary school teachers, school principal.
Potato festival scenario.
(leaders – 4th grade children)
1 presenter:
This time there will be a story
About the one who has six eyes,
And sometimes seven and five,
Which, however, can be counted.
About the one who slept sweetly through the winter,
Climbing into the basement in the fall.
About the one who comes to our kitchen
In the spring I brought it myself.
About the one whose strange eyes
Growing day by day
About someone who knew me
But he didn't see me.
Think a little -
What if this is... (potato)?
(D. Ciardi)
2 presenter:
So, we are going to the potato kingdom. Lady Potato herself meets us.
A film about potatoes.
Hello, dear children, dear adults. I am glad to welcome you to the holiday,
held in my honor. I'll tell you a little about myself. 500 years ago no one in Europe
I knew that there was such a plant - potatoes. And how was one to know, if to the homeland
potatoes, South America, none of the European sailors had yet sailed. But from
long voyages returned to Spain the ships of Christopher Columbus, the brave
navigator. The most valuable cargo they brought home were seeds,
tubers, grains of new plants unknown to Europe. "Dad". That's what they called potatoes
Indians from the Quechua tribe. A harvest festival was held in honor of the pope. Women dressed up
large tubers, like dolls, sewed skirts for them from multi-colored scraps, men
They danced with a bag of tubers on their heads. On the ship, along with the captured
The Indian father, the potato, sailed to a foreign land with the spoils of the sailors. This is where my
travel by land. At first I rode around in a carriage. Velvet handbag with tubers
given as a jewel to rich nobles. When did I cease to be a rarity,

the carriage was replaced by a peasant cart, and the velvet handbag was replaced by a canvas bag. But in Europe
They didn’t immediately understand that my main thing was tubers. One English rich man decided to treat
guests with an overseas wonder planted in his garden. Instead of digging out
tubers, the gardener collected green balls from the bushes that hang on the stems after
before the potatoes bloom. These bitter, inedible potato fruits on silver
the dish was served to the guests. Some of the guests, having tried the treat, choked, some
Then the face twisted, someone ran out from the table. After all, they ate the potatoes from the wrong end. Not
the new product was accepted everywhere. In some places, potato riots even began in Russia. Russians
the men believed the rumors that I, the potato, was a “damn apple”, it was a sin to plant it, the earth
If you mess it up, you'll be left without bread. By royal order, the rebels were flogged with rods, and
the most stubborn were even exiled to Siberia. But it was not the brutal reprisals that convinced the peasants that
It is profitable to plant potatoes. The potato itself convinced me. Remember the fairy tale about the turnip? For what
Did grandpa need a big, big turnip? To feed both the grandmother and granddaughter - the family.
Previously, in cold winters, when the rye crops froze, turnips replaced Russian
bread for the peasant. Hearty and fruitful papa has supplanted turnips. Now it’s not a turnip, but me
potatoes have become second bread for you and all other peoples of Europe. (N. Nadezhdina)
1 presenter: Today we will talk about a well-known and beloved vegetable -
potato. The homeland of potatoes is South America. Do you know how he came to us in
country?
Presenter 2: What are the names of the mountains in which potatoes grow wild?
(Andes.)
1 presenter: The country to which potatoes were first brought by sea. (Spain.)
2 presenter: What was the name of the French physicist and pharmacist - an ardent propagandist
potatoes? (Parmentier.)
1 presenter: Parmentier organized free dinners from only potato dishes,
accompanying them with entertaining conversations and witty stories. He treated
with ardent appeals to the French nobility and even reached the royal court. Queen
listened favorably to the scientist and included a potato flower in her toilet. And right there
demand for the flowers of the new plant flared up among the nobility. They say that some
champions of the new plant, breeding it with great zeal, but knowing about it firsthand,
carefully collected the green fruits that had formed on the tops after flowering and, having prepared
there were enough of them, we tried to taste them boiled and raw. One can imagine
what a disappointment awaited them!
And King Louis XVI promoted potatoes like this: he ordered in the royal garden
near Paris, plant an entire field with potatoes and protect it.
Presenter 2: What did King Louis punish for stealing potatoes? (Fine.)
Louis ordered the guards to “not notice” the thieves. And the forbidden fruit, as you know, is sweet. What
protected, it must be valuable. Thieves immediately appeared. After the potatoes ripen
there are no tubers left in the field. Tsar Peter I began to introduce potatoes in Russia. Order of the Tsar
Eating it led to “potato riots.”

1 presenter: What did Peter I give for sowing potatoes? (Prize.)
Presenter 2: What did the Russian people call potatoes? (Damn apple.)
The history of the development of potatoes in Europe and Asia is similar to an adventure novel.
Earth apples, as they were also called, conquered more and more countries: Switzerland,
Holland, Ireland. And so from Ireland the potatoes come to North America. Only
then they found out that the potato had almost traveled around the world, returning
to your mainland.
You can find out how many obstacles the potato went through before it got to the table.
from the fairy tale by H.K. Andersen "Potato".
Presenter 1: When do we plant potatoes? (In late April - early May.)
Presenter 2: How do they care for him in the summer? (The land is harrowed, loosened, hilled,
feed, fight weeds, diseases and pests.)
1 presenter: You see how much effort a person needs to put in to grow
potato! When should you harvest? (At the end of August, at the beginning of September, potatoes
you can dig it up.)
Presenter 2: If you planted one bucket of potatoes, then approximately how many buckets can you
collect in the fall?
1 presenter: What does potato yield depend on? From the variety (there are more than 200
types of this vegetable), soil, fertilizer, care and many other reasons.
2 presenter: Listen to “Ode to Potatoes” performed by two students.
The word “ode” from Ozhegov’s “Explanatory Dictionary” means poetic, as well as musical
a poetic work characterized by solemnity and sublimity.
1.In one beautiful kingdom...
2. Or maybe not in the kingdom...
1. Once upon a time there was a potato...
2. Or maybe she didn’t live.
1. She was big...
2. Or maybe a small...
1. Round, white, big-eyed...
2. Or maybe she wasn’t.
1. What if it’s in a cast iron pot?
You cook it in the oven...
2. And if you don’t cook...
1. But you can cook it.
Salt a little...
2. Or maybe stronger...
1. With crispy cucumber...

2. With salty, maybe
You can eat it, after all.
Yummy!
1 presenter: And now the girls will sing ditties about potatoes.
1. We are fighting girls,
We live together and have fun.
We are now our own ditties
Let's sing about potatoes.
2. We planted potatoes
In the garden at the gate:
Flowers bloomed on it,
Let the people admire.
3. A goat came to the garden,
She widened her eyes:
Where's the onion? Where are the peas?
Everything is planted with potatoes.
4. The cook fried, the cook steamed,
I dozed off on the sofa.
And then instead of potatoes
I collected some coals.
5. My brother is prowling in the kitchen,
I've been looking for potatoes for a whole hour,
Well, what's the matter with me?
I ate it a long time ago.
6. Oh, potato, you potato!
How good it is!
And you will fry and steam,
And when you eat, the soul sings!
7. I ate potatoes in the morning,
I tried so hard, I puffed so hard,
Like potatoes on the eyebrows,
On the nose and ears.
8. Our Seryozhka loves it
Eat delicious potatoes.
Even in tea, jelly, compote
He puts in a few potatoes.
9. Our Sasha ate potatoes
And I didn’t gain any weight.
Our Sasha began to eat a lot -
He can't get through the door.
10. Oh, thank you, Peter the Great,
That he brought us potatoes,
Otherwise they would still be eating
Only turnips and oats.
11. We can sing about potatoes
We're non-stop.
Oh, tired! Give us

At least one carrot!
Presenter 2: Well done, girls! Can you solve riddles?

Buried in the ground in May
And they didn’t take it out for a hundred days,
And they started digging in the fall
Not just one was found, but ten.
(Potato)

Unprepossessing, gnarly,
And she will come to the table,
The guys will say cheerfully:
“Well, crumbly, delicious!”
Brown is not a bear,
In the hole, but not a mouse.
(Potato)
(Potato)

The bush grew green and thick in the garden bed.
Dig a little: under the bush...
(potato)
Unprepossessing, smallish,
All the guys just love
Baked in the fire
In a fragrant peel.
“Russian bread”, we call the baby -
Our good...
(potatoes)

What was dug out of the ground, fried, boiled?
What did we bake in ashes, eat and praise?
(Potatoes)

Red eye
hero Taras.
Gone underground
Found 10 brothers
Look, look,
what are the heroes like?
(Potato)
Presenter 1: listen to poems about potatoes.
1. We will take buckets,
And off we go.
Friendship will help us
Dig up the potatoes.

Numerous researchers believe that the first person to get potatoes in
Europe, there was a monk Neronim Kordan. Well, maybe it was he who lowered the
the land of Spain, the first basket with an unknown vegetable that was to be conquered
more nations than any general. But perhaps time will give us a new one
version...
The name of the European who first described potatoes is known for sure. This is the Spaniard Pedro Cheza de
Leon. He studied Peru quite thoroughly for his time and released it in Seville
a book called “Chronicle of Peru” It was from it that Europeans first learned about
potatoes. Papa (that's what potatoes were called in Peru.) wrote Cheza de Leon, this is a special type
groundnuts. Once cooked, they become soft, like a baked chestnut... They
covered with a peel no thicker than a truffle peel. The author also told about the solemn holiday,
which the Indians held on the occasion of the potato harvest.
It would seem like this valuable product, which is what potatoes are, had to quickly break through
his way to the European table. However, this did not happen. On the contrary, the population
met everywhere New Product with disbelief. Even lean, hungry years,
which were not uncommon for Europe at that time, did not add to the unpretentious and
prolific potato popularity. Things got to the point where the rulers of many
countries, seeing a solution to the food problem in a new product, resorted to
forced, sometimes very harsh measures to spread it.
When Western European peoples were already cultivating potatoes to their fullest extent, the Russians,
for the most part they made do with turnips. It cannot be said that our compatriots learned about
potatoes much later, for example, the same French. Peter I also sent to Russia
The first batch of potatoes was ordered to be sent to all provinces for cultivation. But
this wonderful idea of ​​Peter I was not destined to come true during his lifetime.
Catherine II also suffered a fiasco. In 1765, 57 were discharged to Moscow from Germany.
barrels of potatoes. The medical college, which sought means so that “without great
dependents" to help the starving peasants of Finland, reported to the Senate that the best
the way to prevent this disaster “is in those earthen apples that in England
are called potetes, and in other places earthen pears, tortufels and potatoes.”
At the same time, by order of the empress, potato tubers and
instructions for its breeding. The implementation of this activity was monitored
local governors. But the idea failed, the people stubbornly refused to allow
foreign product.
Even at the beginning of the 19th century, potatoes were still little known to Russian culinary experts.
The most educated people of that time treated him with fear.
Until the second half of the 19th century, potatoes, despite the formidable government decrees,
never took its rightful place in the diet of the people.
The rapid spread of potatoes among the broad masses of the population was hampered by fables,
who wrote about " earthen pear"zealots of the "old faith" are ardent opponents of everything
new. One of these tales claimed that the first potato bush grew on
the grave of the daughter of the mythical king Mamers, who during her lifetime, at the “instigation of the devil,” was
libertine. Therefore, whoever eats this “devil fruit” will be subject to sinful
temptations and will go to hell for it.

Naturally, such statements nullified the efforts of many popularizers
potatoes. However, in fairness it must be said that the popularizers themselves
Some of their advice only alienated the people. For example, in one of the recipes
It was recommended to cook potatoes with the addition of... quicklime. You can only
guess what sensations the daredevil experienced who tried this dish. But time passed
and potatoes turned from an unwanted “guest” into a full-fledged owner on our table,
displacing rutabaga and turnips...
Only a few decades after potatoes were recognized among the people, it took
him to make a real revolution in Russian cuisine. He became a product
necessary for all layers of Russian society, potatoes were readily eaten by both the rich and
poor. True, with the difference that for low-income families of workers and peasants,
especially in years of grain shortages, it became almost the only food. No wonder in
The people have a proverb: “Potatoes help bread.”
The culinary versatility of potatoes and good compatibility with other animals and
plant products contributed to the fact that he began to be included in the mass of the first,
second and even third (dessert) courses. Judge for yourself, potatoes can be boiled, fried,
bake, stew and generally subject it to the most unimaginable culinary transformations.
Meat, fish, milk, mushrooms, vegetables, dishes made from them only benefit from adding
potatoes. A potato starch an integral part of a traditional sweet dish
Russian cuisine jelly. It is difficult to even list all the “specialties” of potatoes in
cooking.
Competitions:
1. Move potatoes from one chair to another - 5 people per team
2. Collect small potatoes - 2 people per team
3. Lay out a Christmas tree from potatoes along the contour - team of 2 people.
4. Lay out a path of potatoes - a team of 2 people.
Tea party with potato pies.

Olga Ipatova
Scenario for the production “Praise the Potatoes”

PRAISE POTATOES!

Leading:

In some kingdom

In some state

Not on Mars and not on the Moon

There lived a potato in the ground

It had royal properties:

She managed to feed the people.

In a word, our speech is about

How the potatoes came into the house!

About all properties, about care,

About working in the garden,

About crafts, delicious food,

Today we will look in books...

There's a lot to learn

Now it's time to start...

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General meeting

Scientists from different countries arrived.

Chairman - King Potato

I was terribly pleased and flattered

Because, elected unanimously, he opened and led the meeting.

Having thanked everyone for their trust, the chairman began his report...

Potato

Everyone in the world knows about me:

The rich and those who are not rich.

Everyone prepares me in their own way:

Some cook, some fry, some bake,

But they eat me everywhere,

For this I have glory and honor.

We have gathered here so that each of you

Told about me

Historian: I deeply apologize. Do you know that potatoes are foreign?

All: No

Historian: It was a long time ago. Potatoes were brought from America on a large ship, but for some reason people did not immediately like the tubers of this amazing plant, perhaps because they grow in the ground. But they paid attention to the beautiful flowers - delicate and noble, which grew on the bushes. And people began to decorate their hats and dresses with them. The ladies became so elegant and graceful that they definitely wanted to dance.

Carnation, chamomile and rose bud

Can't compare to potato flower.

It is delicate, lilac, yellow, white.

Very shy, very timid.

We will decorate our outfit with our favorite flower,

And let's go dance the minuet.

And later people realized that they needed to eat tubers and potatoes became the main food of the Russian people.

Oh, thanks Peter1,

That he brought us potatoes.

Otherwise they would still be eating

Just porridge and oats.

Doctor: Very good! Very good! But I received a telegram that the children talk a lot about potatoes, maybe they need my help?

Ooh! The eyes are burning -

The boys have a fever.

I know only one remedy,

It has been tested for a long time:

They breathed over the potatoes -

Immediately everyone became healthy.

Did the child sneeze?

It's time to treat them with potatoes.

Let's breathe in the warm steam!

Let's warm up our throats!

Did you breathe over the potatoes?

Immediately everyone became healthy!

Potatoes are a medicinal plant: fresh potato juice is used for stomach ulcers, gastritis, and helps lower blood pressure in hypertension. Potato gruel is good for treating burns and eczema. In winter, potatoes are the main source of vitamin C. In addition to vitamin C, tubers contain small amounts of vitamins B1, B2, B6, A.

And we have potatoes to thank for that! Thank you Your Majesty!

Our potatoes – anywhere:

Delicious, rich in vitamins.

If you always eat,

You will be healthy and strong.

Potato:

To raise me

You have to work hard

I suggest to us now

Listen to a specialist

Agronomist:

I'm on the field, I ran to the field with the mood.

I planted both potatoes and potatoes merrily

One or two, don’t yawn, put the tubers in the ground

One or two, don’t be lazy and make friends with potatoes

Rain, rain, pour, pour, pour.

Don't be sorry for your drops.

Help me a little

And water the potatoes.

Sun, sun, warm up hotter,

Don't spare your rays.

Wind, wind, come,

Give us potatoes.

Potato:

I'll tell you frankly,

And this is certain -

There is no more important thing in the kingdom than potatoes!

All my sprouts are sons and daughters.

Look, there are assistants coming - scientists,

They know everything in the world

And they count tirelessly.

Scientists(one with abacus - a mathematician, the other with flasks):

1st: In the spring we counted - there are exactly five tubers,

And in the fall - look, there were twenty-five of them

Consider in chorus: one, two, three, four five (2 times)

Allow me to report to Your Majesty

We calculated everything exactly...

Both: Great amount!

2nd: I also want to say thank you to Your Majesty for the starch. After all, 100 g of potatoes contains 20 grams of starch. It is from starch that you can cook a traditional sweet dish of Russian cuisine - jelly! And potatoes are the first vegetable that has been (in space and grown there) and sprouted in space! Here!

Potatoes contain a lot of vitamins

Minerals and starch.

It is valuable, tasty and healthy,

Young and old love him.

Potato:

I'm a potato, a sight for sore eyes,

I'm a potato, delicious!

Collapse of the leaf!

Yes, once-a-ri-sta!

Without me - no, no, -

Lunch won't work!

Cook: How right you are, Your Majesty! In our country, potatoes are called the second bread, and this is no coincidence. Potatoes can be used to prepare various dishes and side dishes. It is boiled, fried, stewed, stuffed.

Oh, delicious potatoes!

Ideal for children and adults.

He doesn't know pleasure

Who hasn't eaten potatoes?

Potato.

Thank you, dears. It turns out that you know a lot about me and appreciate me. And even if it’s a little difficult to raise me like this... then don’t be angry: after all, I will always repay you with kindness.

Although it is indecent to boast,

But I must tell you:

Excellent without potatoes

Neither eat nor dance.

Even a tasty cucumber

Well done with potatoes only!

Even though the green onions are angry,

And potatoes are their best friend.

From potatoes here and there

They make the right product,

And it’s not for nothing that potatoes

Everyone calls it second bread.

I'm touched by the attention!

I close our meeting.

Leading:

We love potatoes

Poems were composed in her honor

They praised each other, then

We ate everything - and no problem!

But we want to say a good word about her again:

All: It will always be on the table

And in every city and in every village!

Long live the bowl, long live the spoon,

Long live what we love - POTATOES!

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