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Pumpkin Week with Pumpkin Jack

I wanted to share some books with you for October that I think you will love! October is the perfect time to learn about life cycles, including decomposition with pumpkins.  It’s a great way to tie in pumpkins into your language arts, art, and math block. I know most people I however will be soaking […]

How do you celebrate Pumpkin Week?

It’s tough to cram everything in with Common Core so I do my best to incorporate math, science, social studies, and holidays all in one nice little package.  Pumpkin Week has always been a class favorite, so I do it every year.  I revamp it each year as my kiddos change and standards switch around. […]

Pumpkin Week {Part 3}

Kiddos are loving Pumpkin week, and so am I! So much more engaging than our graphing and data unit in our math book. 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 […]

Pumpkin Week…continued

Pumpkin Week has officially begun in room B 4! We passed around the baby pumpkins and came up with adjectives.  Then, we passed around the big guy.  They absolutely loved it! As a class, we created a circle map using adjectives to describe the pumpkin. Finally, we filled out or adjectives in our Pumpkin Book […]