Mrs. Drake's Classroom
PUMPKINS
LITERACY
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 We estimated the circumference of our largest pumpkin |
 Comparing height of pumpkins using unifix cubes |
 Playdoh made with pumpkin spice. Mmmmm this smells so good! |
 Sequencing the life cycle of a pumpkin |
 Pumpkin math puzzle cards. Matching numeral to number of seeds. |
 Budding artist at work drawing jack o lantern faces on a pumpkin. We used washable markers. Draw a face - then sponge off for next child to use. |
 Coffee filter pumpkins look so nice on our bulletin board. No two are alike. Using water color markers color two coffee filters yellow and red (both filters both colors). Spray coffee filter with water and watch colors combine to make orange. Stuff with cotton and staple closed. Add a stem. |
 Hammering golf tees into a pumpkin |
 5 Little Pumpkins folder game |
  Pumpkin/ghost patterning. Lima beans with ghosts faces drawn on. Paint some lima beans orange and draw jack-o-lantern faces on them. |
 Pumpkin Glyph |
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We graphed how we wanted to carve our Jack-O-Lantern |
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 File folder game putting pumpkins in numeric order on the vine. |
 We made a venn diagram comparing apples and pumpkins. |
 We brought in pictures that start with the /p/ sound and added them to our "Pp" pumpkin board. |
  We put our pumpkin scraps in a jar to watch how it decomposes. After two months it was completely covered with mold and beginning to liquefy. The kids all voted it was now OK to throw it out. |
 After reading "The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything" we reinacted the story on our felt board. We also enjoyed listening to the story on tape while reading along. (Felt pieces here) |
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We made number pumpkin books from Kidlit |
We painted with a q-tip some brown, black, white and yellow paint all over a corn shape. Added some husks and tied it all together with raffia. |
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