Pumpkins Galore!

Pumpkin day last Friday was a HUGE success! The day was filled with many pumpkin activities. Check out the fun we had!

We read to pumpkins in the Reading Patch.  The boys and girls were SO excited to read to the pumpkins!!

We played a pumpkin life cycle game, sorted pictures that start and do not with the letter p, and

matched rhyming pumpkins.

We also read our life cycle books with a partner.

The children were very excited for the afternoon when they got to travel to four investigation stations that parent volunteers facilitated.

Children counted the number of lines on their pumpkins and remembered to use smart counting strategies and they determined if pumpkins sink or float.  Some students were very surprised that their heavy pumpkins float!

These hard working mathematicians also measured the height of their pumpkins with cubes, and had the opportunity to feel the gooey inside of a pumpkin and count its seeds.

To count all the seeds, Mrs. Ingalls had the children each grab a handful and put a group of ten seeds in each small cup. On Monday, we arranged the cups of seeds into ten frames so we could practice counting by tens to 100 and then from there counted by hundreds and the leftover tens.  The total number of seeds for our pumpkin was 530!!  Ella estimated the closest with a prediction of 600 seeds.  Thank you to families who shared your seed estimates with the class.  We enjoyed reading the comments during morning meeting.

Thank you to Mrs. Fox, Mrs. Ingalls, Mr. Duran, and Ms. DeSanctis for helping with this fun activity!

We finished up our pumpkin unit this week by reviewing what we already knew about pumpkins prior to the start of our unit and what we were hoping to learn.  

The boys and girls were surprised with how much they learned about pumpkins.  Congratulate your pumpkin experts on the new knowledge they attained and have been eager to share.