Pumpkins

Pumpkins is one of my favorite things to teach all year, and boy did we have fun with this theme!  We measured pumpkins to see how tall they were.

We cut open a pumpkin to discover what was inside.

Then we all got to touch it and discover what the insides felt like.  The kids decided the insides were wet, squishy, slimy, and looked like string cheese!!!

Then we broke the pumpkin in half and the kids worked hard to pick out all the seeds.  They were very excited about the fact that Mrs. Jen was going to cook them for them, and they were going to have them for snack the following day!

Boy were they yummy!  Most of the kids loved them!

We also discovered that pumpkins float!  We all thought that it would sink because it was so heavy, but after we dropped it in the tub it was floating.  Then we remembered that the inside of the pumpkin was hollow and had a lot of air helping it float!  We even read a book that had people sitting inside pumpkins using them as boats!

We worked on the number 5 and it fit perfectly with the poem 5 Little Pumpkins!  The kids loved singing this poem and making their very own 5 Little Pumpkins sitting on a Gate!

 

The kids loved working hard at writing center and earning "Kiss Your Brains" (Hershey kisses and Starburst) for their "All Star Work!"  Look at all these little smarties!  They were so proud of their work, and so was I!

The favorite centers of the week worked their muscles.  The kids absolutely loved using hammers to pound golf tees into the pumpkin and using Mr. Potato Head pieces and styrofoam pumpkins to create silly faced jack-o-lanterns!

It was another GREAT week with an AWESOME group of kids!