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Happy Pumpkin Day from the swamp! (Also teaming up to be drug free and wearing our favorite jerseys) The day was FULL of fun activities, all related to pumpkins, and of course, reading, science, and math.
For the first part of the day, we worked through the science process to answer the question, "Does the size of the pumpkin effect the amount of seeds there are inside?" To test our question, after we hypothesized, we opened up the pumpkins, and started counting seeds. Can you believe that Sydney's teeny, tiny pumpkin had 200 seeds? (pictured below)
For the first part of the day, we worked through the science process to answer the question, "Does the size of the pumpkin effect the amount of seeds there are inside?" To test our question, after we hypothesized, we opened up the pumpkins, and started counting seeds. Can you believe that Sydney's teeny, tiny pumpkin had 200 seeds? (pictured below)
The largest pumpkin in class did not, in fact, have the most seeds. Coming in with a HUGE total of 642 seeds was Fanny's medium sized pumpkin. Below are a few pictures of us counting the seeds and taking out all of the pumpkin's pulp (otherwise known as "the goo").
After we recorded our results, drew our conclusions, and applied what we learned about the pumpkins' seed counts to 'real life', we continued our Pumpkin Day festivities.
For the rest of the day, we rotated through a series of centers. We completed: a coordinate grid titled "Orange Head"; a fun packet with a symbol search, recipe reading, and World Record Pumpkin information sheet; a bar graph of our results from our pumpkin seed data; made observations and inferences about a strange, bumpy and spotted pumpkin; a creature with a pumpkin body, strange heads, arms, legs, and eyes and wrote a story about him/her; a pumpkin life cycle poster; and a pumpkin painting based on an adjective selected from the plastic pumpkin.
For the rest of the day, we rotated through a series of centers. We completed: a coordinate grid titled "Orange Head"; a fun packet with a symbol search, recipe reading, and World Record Pumpkin information sheet; a bar graph of our results from our pumpkin seed data; made observations and inferences about a strange, bumpy and spotted pumpkin; a creature with a pumpkin body, strange heads, arms, legs, and eyes and wrote a story about him/her; a pumpkin life cycle poster; and a pumpkin painting based on an adjective selected from the plastic pumpkin.
To wrap up our celebration of National Pumpkin Day 2013, we watched "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and had pizza, treats, and various pumpkin flavored snacks like: pumpkin bread, pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin cookies, and pumpkin munchkin donuts. It was an extremely fun day in our class and we learned a lot about pumpkins! Thank you to all of the families who sent in donations from pumpkins to treats, and those who volunteered.