We read to pumpkins in the Reading Patch. The boys and girls were SO excited to read to the pumpkins!!
We ordered numbers 0-20, sorted pictures that start and do not with the letter p, and matched rhyming pumpkins.
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. Rullo had the children each grab a handful
and put a group of ten seeds in each small cup. After a couple of days off due to the weather, we finally learned yesterday the total number of pumpkin seeds. 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 and ones. The total number of seeds for our pumpkin was 515!!
Alex's dad estimated the closest with a prediction of 492 seeds. Thank you
to families and educators who shared your seed estimates with the class. We enjoyed
reading the comments during morning meeting.
Thank you to Mrs. DeBonis, Mrs. Rullo, Mrs. Kaiserman, and Mrs. Hatley for helping with this fun activity! An extra special thank you to the Rullo family for donating a class set of pumpkins.
We
finished up our pumpkin unit 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.
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