Pumpkin Drop

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for the pumpkin patch field trip. We had a great time! Everyone in our class has written about their favorite part of the trip, and we are in the process of creating a class book with all of our ideas. I appreciate everyone who has sent in the photos from our adventure. Take a look at all the fun we had.

Pumpkin Patch Reminders

Just a reminder that we are headed to the pumpkin patch on Monday. Please make sure your child is dressed for the weather and mud.

We will be leaving Hayhurst at 10:30 and arriving back from the pumpkin patch around 1:30 (depending on traffic).

Our class is extremely excited about this trip!

Grandparents' Day

Thank you to all of the grandparents who came and worked with us in our classroom today. It was a lot of fun to have you join us!

Jack-O-Lanterns

Today we learned more about jack-o-lanterns and then used our knowledge about shapes to create our own jack-o-lanterns.

Over the next few weeks we will be documenting the decay process to see what happens. These pumpkins will live in ziplock bags and we will write about all of the changes we observe.

As a class we also decided on the shapes we wanted for our class pumpkin.

Our class pumpkin will be carved and then live out in the garden space to see how the weather and other elements change a pumpkin. We will be able to view this pumpkin from our classroom window. We are excited to see the whole life cycle of a pumpkin!

Pumpkin Seeds!

We have counted the seeds in our table pumpkins and we found a lot!

Here are our final counts:

Red Table: 465 seeds
Green Table: 444 seeds
Yellow Table: 432 seeds
Orange Table: 430 seeds
Purple Table: 384 seeds

As we counted we worked on counting by groups of ten and then putting those groups together into groups of 100!