When you think of fall, of course pumpkins come to mind! There are SO many things you can do with them! Our students learned about pumpkins all while incorporating reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. Needless to say, it's been a busy week for Sutton's Kindergarten friends!
To begin our pumpkin unit, we started out by discussing the life cycle of a pumpkin. The students even discovered that a pumpkin's life is a lot like a circle, it is neverending. The students then used their knowledge and created their own pumpkin sequences! It turned out to be a very cute pumpkin patch for our hallway!
The next day, we became kindergarten scientists. We wanted to experiment with our pumpkins. Before our experiment, the students predicted whether the pumpkin would sink or float in a bucket of water. We analyzed our data using our new math skills and tallied the results. Then... it was experiment time! Pumpkins float!
We read lots and lots of stories about pumpkins this week, but our FAVORITE was "Big Pumpkin". It was about a witch who wanted to make pumpkin pie, but couldn't get the pumpkin off the vine. Ask your child about what happened next :) Miss DeWitt let her students transform into actors and perform the story in front of the class. The students talked about what behaviors they would have to change to become the new characters and how they would retell the story to the others. It was tons of fun! The actors even had a little tumble at the end just like the real ending of the story (except our tumble wasn't planned)!
For our weekly art project, we created a pumpkin glyph. We love glyphs because each pumpkin turned out differently than all the others! Our students also measured themselves using pumpkins instead of rulers (the picture on the glyph is their measurement). After the entire class was measured, the students graphed the data. They did this all on their own! Our goal is student-directed learning and this activity was a perfect opportunity for the students to create their own learning!!
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