Pumpkin Experiment and Shared Writing

We did lots of pumpkin activities this week as we are anxiously awaiting our pumpkin patch field trip! We will be finishing up our pumpkin activities this week and moving on to weather very soon!

Pumpkin Writing

To start off our week we learned a poem called 10 Little Pumpkins (ask your student to sing it for you!). Then after we learned our poem as a class we each took a part to write down the poem. 

A view of some of the writing!

Once we had written out the entire poem students worked with a partner to make 1 pumpkin. This was quite the challenge for some groups. I heard lots of great compromising "I'll draw and you cut" and I even saw some Rock-it-out (basically rock paper scissors) happening to solve problems. It was really great to see.

Students making their pumpkin and stem.

One student makes the pumpkin, the other the stem.

Once we finished our pumpkins I put them up on a bulletin board in the hallway so everyone in the school could see the hard work we put into making it!

The finished product :)

Pumpkin Lifecycle

This week we continued working on our understanding of the pumpkin life cycle. Not only did we read books about the pumpkin life cycle but we also wrote about it too. We started by putting the life cycle in the correct order and then from there we were able to complete our sheet about the life cycle. Students loved getting to mix up the cards and put them back in the right order!

Pumpkin Experiment

To top off our week we did our pumpkin experiment. We measured our pumpkin to see how tall it was, we put our pumpkin in water to see if pumpkins sink or float and then came the huge task: counting the pumpkin seeds. On a piece of butcher paper I put out lots of 10 frames and with a partner students sorted through their pile of pumpkin guts to pick out the pumpkin seeds and put one seed in each spot on our ten frames. We had roughly 450 seeds in our pumpkin! It was so much fun and the kids really enjoyed it!

I am so excited for our field trip this week and I know the students are too. I promise I will take photos of all the fun!

Smiles,

Miss Adams