Pumpkin Discovery

To find out what our students already knew about pumpkins we asked the students the question, "What do you know about pumpkins?" These were the answers we received.

 We read several books about pumpkins and brought in a pumpkin to discover how pumpkins grow. After reading the book Pumpkin Heads, the students decided to make a vote to see what kind of face we should carve on our own pumpkin.

Then we headed outside to carve our pumpkin into a scary Jack-o-Lantern. Only a few students wanted to stick their hands into the ooey, gooey, cold pumpkin.

Some of our students had the conversation that pumpkins make seeds so they can grow more pumpkins. A few students decided that they would find an empty spot in our garden to plant all the insides and seeds and "maybe" we will have pumpkins growing for us next year!

When we returned inside we talked about what other things people can do with the seeds of the pumpkins. Some students said that they cook the seeds and eat them. I had brought in my seeds from home that I had roasted and the students got to taste test them. Many students were nervous as they had not tasted pumpkin seeds before. To their surprise... many students loved them and kept asking for more!! We decided to make a chart to see who liked the pumpkin seeds and who didn't.

 Then off to the pumpkin patch........

Shape Party Continued

Thank you to all our families who sent in all of our "shape" foods to share with the class. We began by sorting our foods into the different shapes to find out which food shape we had the most of. The students had to solve 2 sorting problems...2 of our foods had 2 shapes in them (circle and square). They decided to put the 2 foods in between the circle hula hoop and square hula hoop. They found that they had 0 rectangle foods, 10 circle foods, 4 square foods and 2 triangle foods and one cake that had all shapes on it.