Pumpkins!

Pumpkins & Jack O' Lanterns

Daily Question:  Do pumpkins float? (Miss Nikki and I were impressed that the students all said "Yes!")

Toys: Traffic Rug and Cars, Potato Heads, and Linkin Blocks.

Snack: Gold fish crackers and fruit leather, Ritz crackers and blueberry mini-muffins.

Recess Time!

Exploring a pumpkin!  How does it smell, feel, taste, sound, look?

Today we had an enrichment lesson on Pumpkins.
Daily Question: Do pumpkins float? (Answer: yes, pumpkins of all sizes float in water because pumpkins are made up of 80% water.)


We enjoyed opening up a sugar pumpkin (smaller and sweeter than a "normal" pumpkin). Students saw inside, smelled, touched, and tasted, if they wanted to, the fresh pumpkin.  

We noticed the differences and tasted the canned pumpkin we used in our recipe.

We learned a new recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies that only uses three ingredients. Try it! This became our snack with milk. Yum!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 box spice cake mix
15 oz. (1/2 a large can) Pumpkin
1 C. chocolate chips
Mix above ingredients together and drop by spoonful onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 12-16 minutes.

 We took turns adding the ingredients and stirring our cookies!

 We practiced dropping the cookie dough onto a greased sheet by tablespoons.

 Cooking.

 Done!

  Pumpkin Books :
 
The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King (Picture Puffins).
The Tiniest Pumpkin (A First Start Easy Reader) Troll
Pumpkin Time by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Ill. by Christopher Santoro
This is the Pumpkin by Abby Levine, Ill. by Paige Billin-Frye
Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell *(Jack-O-Lanterns to plant to pumpkin, sharing, cycles).
The Stubborn Pumpkin (HelloReader! Lvl 3, Gr. 1 &2) by Laura Geringer and Holly Berry

Song Story: 5 Little Pumpkins

Mom and Dad--ask me to sing the song we've been practicing in preschool...