Today was all about pumpkins, pumpkins, and more pumpkins!
To start our pumpkin activities off, we read the story It's Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall. We learned all about how a pumpkin starts off as a tiny seed, grows into a sprout, and then into a vine type plant. Soon a brightly coloured flower appears and after awhile a tiny green pumpkin.The little green pumpkin gets bigger and bigger and soon becomes a fully grown orange pumpkin. That's how a pumpkin grows!
After our story and group discussion, the students demonstrated what they had learned by creating the cutest 3-dimensional pumpkin life cycle craftivity. This is one amazing class because every single one of their projects turned out awesome. Here are a few examples:
After recess, we worked on some Pumpkin Math / Science activities with our big buddies in division 2. The students rotated through seven different stations which included everything from measuring the height and distance around, counting the lines on our pumpkins, weighing our pumpkins, predicting whether our pumpkins will sink or float, determining what kind of force will make our pumpkins move, and predicting/counting the seeds inside our pumpkins. We recorded all of our learning in our Pumpkin Investigation Notebooks. Here are some photos of all our hard work and pumpkin fun!
Counting the lines on our pumpkins
Measuring the distance around
Measuring the height
Sink or Float Experiment
Counting Seeds
Recording our results
I hope everyone had a fun day learning all about pumpkins!
-Mrs. Singh
All these activities look like so much fun. I love how so much learning can be incorporated in one activity!!
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