This was an awesome week with our pumpkin theme. We investigated the pumpkin inside and out, we measured it with cubes, and we compared ourselves to a lighted pumpkin by letting our light shine for all to see. The children are so curious and excited to do new activities that they don't even realize they are learning everyday as I am. I look forward to each day with them.
After looking at the inside of a pumpkin, eating some of the seeds, we then planted some seeds inside of the pumpkin in hopes of growing one.
Our finished seeded, watered pumpkin was put outside. Mission accomplished!!!!
Orange strips of paper could make all of our straight lined letters, but we ran into a problem with curved letters. It was good to arrive at that conclusion and be able to verbalize it.
After we used the strips to form letters, we then got to be creative and glue them together to make our own jack-o-lantern. Some were spooky, scary, and happy.
Observing details on the jack-o-lantern's faces was very challenging, but mastered by most of us.
Given a plain pumpkin, the task was to match the facial features of the smaller one exactly.
Everybody wanted a turn to write in the sand, a more tactile approach for exposing children to vaious types of sensory learning.
We learned a song called "This Little Light of Mine" to go along with this craft.
The Trike-a-thon was a blast for the students and their families.
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