Oh my gosh! It's a squash!

This week we have been and will continue to complete a number of reading, writing and art activities based on the book The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz.

At the beginning of the week we read the story and discussed how the Ugly Pumpkin changed from the beginning of the story to the end of the story and completed a character change chart. Today, we continued our discussion, focusing on how the pumpkin must have felt not being picked from the pumpkin patch (sad, left-out). We followed up by making some text-to-self  connections and wrote about a time we felt squashed or sad and left out. Later this afternoon, we reviewed our school rule "Be Positive", and created a list of positive adjectives to show how he must have felt about himself at the end of the story. Tomorrow we will, complete our book study with a cute squash art activity and display all our hard work and learning on our classroom bulletin boards.

During the remainder of the week, we will learn more about squash as part of our Life Sciences curriculum. I have already brought one interesting looking squash into the classroom and tomorrow  I will be bringing in a few more.  Can anyone tell me the types of the squash pictured below?

 

 

-Mrs. Singh