Thursday, October 31, 2013

Pumpkins!

Pumpkin week was so much fun! We started the week by reading the big book "Growing Pumpkins" which helped us learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin. We talked about the life cycle of a pumpkin everyday and looked at this poster to help us remember. 
On Wednesday I read the book "Big Pumpkin" and had the students guess whether a large, medium, and small pumpkin would float. They were surprised to find that they all floated! During centers they discovered that yellow and red made orange if you mixed them together and they painted a paper plate orange to make it a pumpkin. 
The next day we read "The Littlest Pumpkin" and they students got to paint their very own littlest pumpkin! 
They turned out pretty cute! 
On Friday we got to carve a pumpkin! I let the students take turns scooping out ten pumpkin guys and seeds. They weren't too sure about this at first but after the first brave kid did it, the rest of them couldn't wait to try! 
It was another fun week! 



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