This week we learned all about on of my favorite things...pumpkins!
As soon as it hits October,
I always love to put up the orange lights
and my Dia De Los Muertos banner!
It makes the classroom so festive and fun.
These were all of the pumpkin books that I read aloud for the week.
There was one book that I had to get, which was:
How many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara
and I had ordered it from Scholastic and I was so happy that
it came JUST in time when we going to count our seeds!
We first talked about how pumpkins felt on the outside and the inside.
We read "Five Little Pumpkins" many times.
We then identified our "heart word" the in the poem.
I like to call the sight words, "heart words" because they have to memorize them by heart :)
We then began our pumpkin investigations! (My favorite thing to do!)
We measured how many unifix cubes tall our pumpkin was.
We then counted all of the lines on the pumpkin.
We then made a hypothesis if the pumpkin would sink or float...
a lot of them thought the pumpkin would sink.
We then opened up the pumpkin and took all of the seeds out.
We also measured how many pumpkins tall we were!
This was a big hit, with not only my kinders,
but with all of the other students walking down the hallway.
The next day we counted all of the seeds.
This was a great assessment to see which students had trouble counting
and one to one correspondence.
Our pumpkin had 524 seeds!
Here was my Pinterest inspired seed anchor chart.
The next day we cooked our seeds!
We have an oven in our staff lounge,
so I took my students up there and
we make cinnamon sugar covered pumpkin seeds.
We then talked about the pumpkin life cycle.
I found a great YouTube video with a song of the pumpkin life cycle.
I really love doing interactive science notebook activities,
so I was very excited when I found a free pumpkin life cycle
interactive notebook activity on Teachers Pay Teachers.
The last thing we will be doing is painting our own pumpkins!
Can't wait to start painting!
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