Every year, during the couple of days leading up to Thanksgiving we always have Pumpkin Day. I'm sure you've seen ALL the pumpkin books, journals, and activities out there. My co-worker Cheryl and I have been doing this for years and it's always a great time!
Essentially, we do a whole bunch of math and science activities. Students bring in those tiny decorative pumpkins. They describe and illustrate what their pumpkin looks like and how they feel. Students do informal measurement and weight activities, use a string to measure the circumference, and do a sink of float activity with a large pumpkin.
Then we cut it open, they help scoop out the guts and describe how it smells, feels & what the guts look like.
Once we finish scooping out the guts we predict how many seeds are in it and count them up.
Finally, we end the day with a little pumpkin pie! Students taste a small piece of pie and they write a story persuading people to eat or not to eat pumpkin pie.
Looks like I have one who doesn't like it. What's wrong with him!!!
We ended the day with a little science experiment (as seen on Pinterest). We put soil and water in the pumpkin with about 12 seeds on Monday and when we returned from Thanksgiving break the next Tuesday the seeds had really taken off! I would recommend putting a pan underneath the pumpkin if you try this at home. The actual pumpkin rots pretty fast. Gross!
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