Pumpkin Day

Pumpkin day was a success, even though we had to shorten it to just the afternoon because of our Fun Run Pep Rally and a visit from Firefighter Dave who taught us about fire safety. 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 read about the pumpkin life cycle, sorted pictures that start and do not with the letter p, played pumpkin life cycle war, and matched rhyming pumpkins.

The children were very excited for the end of the day 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. DePesa had the children each grab a handful and put a group of ten seeds in each small cup.  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 763!!  Thank you to families and educators who shared your seed estimates with the class.  We enjoyed reading the comments during snack.

Thank you to Mrs. Alvarenga, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. DePesa, and Mrs. Lovett for helping with this fun activity!  Also thank you to the Leonforte family for donating a few of the pumpkins.

After Pumpkin Day, we used our new knowledge to compare apples and pumpkins in a Venn diagram.

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.