Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins

	First you need to look at pumpkins and then find out what is inside of them. There is nothing like hands on investigations for learning the parts of the pumpkin. Students also enjoyed many other math activities such as measuring, comparing, seration, adding pumpkins, estimating, counting seeds by 10's and 1's, and sequencing.
	Students also learned the poem "Five Little Pumpkins" and acted it out for classmates and reading buddies. Some students created popsicle stick puppets to act out the poem.
There are many words that start with the letter "p" and each child made their own book that started like the word pumpkin.
	In art class, students made their own pumpkins for the pumpkin patch.
Finally, the book was ready to be put together and enjoyed.	Here students move words into the proper place to label the parts of a pumpkin.
The pumpkin life cycle can be sequenced. Student work illustrates many pages.	Students can now read their own book about pumpkins in kindergarten-friendly language.

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March 25, 2001