Language Arts
Introduce the word "tamales" and "masa" to the class.  Talk with them about the Spanish words for other objects in this book such as ring, mother, cousins, etc.  Have your students make an Spanish ABC book with the new words they learn.

Math
Have students figure out how many tamales each child would have to eat so that all five of them were eating a share amount.  Have children figure out other math problems as well such as:  -How many would they each have to eat if there were 106 tamales?
-If Maria will only eat 2 tamales how many will the other four have to eat?

Science
Have your students make tamales!  Have them brainstorm
ingredients that would go into making tamales and procedures for making them.  After that is complete have them research several different recipes for tamales and find out which would

Art
Too Many Tamales is about a little girls memory of the holidays with her family.  Have your students draw special memories they have with their families.  Take each of the children's drawings and make a wall quilt (bulletin board) out of it.  When all the children are finished with their drawing tape them all together and have the children pick out a colored border they would like to finish the quilt (construction paper).