Pumpkin Week {Part 3}

We were going to vote on how we wanted to carve our pumpkin, but my dad informed me that his amazing wife was going to carve a dracula for us.  So…I told the kiddos what to graph.  For example, for the first pumpkin, I told them two and they shaded in 2 spaces.  Then, students analyzed their data to answer the questions on the second page.

How awesome is this Dracula???

We are working a lot on adjectives.  So each student got to feel the inside of the pumpkin and describe it using their senses.  Agh, my second graders didn’t know what their senses were.  Hello…Kinder standard.  So, I used it as a teaching moment and we reviewed our 5 senses and came up with adjectives to describe the pumpkin {salty, hollow, slimy, orange, hard, etc.} using a circle map.

Sorry it’s upside down.  Students used their adjectives to describe how the pumpkin felt.

Next, we estimated!!! We counted out 10 and used it as our reference.  Rather than counting every seed {pure torture, I did it one year}, we estimated groups of ten.  As I laid them on the chart paper, I chose one student to circle each group.

The final product: 300 seeds!  Finally, as an extension activity, I had kiddos write 10, 20, 30, etc. in each circle until they got to 300.

Pick this up in my TPT store and use it with your kiddos this Fall!