We began our lesson today reading my favorite non-fiction text about pumpkins: Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson. Very poetic and informative. The pictures are absolutely wonderful, too!
Then, we tasted our toasted pumpkin seeds. Mmmmm! Then we did a little pumpkin seed pre-write as a whole class, and the kiddos completed an individual response sheet that when along with it…
Then it was time to graph whether or not we liked the taste of our toasted pumpkin seeds…
Next, the kiddos completed individual graphs, colored in a little pumpkin seed packet, and, and wrote about their pumpkin seed experience…
I wish I was a pumpkin seed because I want to see the inside of a pumpkin. Too. Stinkin. CUTE!
You can get copies of all the activity sheets by clicking on the pics below :)
I hope it’s not too late for y’all to use it! If not now, maybe next year!
Have a great night! Happy *almost* Thursday!!!!!
31 comments:
These are great activities. I am wrapping up our pumpkin theme and these will work great for this year and next. PERFECT!!
Robynn
BusyBees
Abby-
These are great! I think I need to change my plans for Monday now!
Looks awesome! I'll have to use next year we just did our pumpkin centers today!
Thank you so much for sharing!! I'll be saving these for my class next year :)
Love it! I'm planning on doing pumpkin activities Monday. Thank you so much!
Love it! I'm planning on doing pumpkin activities Monday. Thank you so much!
cute! we are doing our pumpkin week next week - LOTS of fun activities, and I was going to toast the seeds for the kiddos - I'm loving this to go along with it - thank you so much for the freebie! When I blog about this, I for SURE give you the due credit :) (as always!)
You totally rock! Lovin' all of it!
First Grade Delight
imgoingfirst@gmail.com
Thanks for sharing. I love this!
You're the best, Abby! Thanks so much! You continually make me excited to go to school and try your awesome ideas : )
Catherine
catherine.stergar@gmail.com
Second Grade Is Sweet
(blog coming soon!)
Love this. Thanks for sharing. I'm saving it for next year :)
❀Barbara❀
Grade ONEderful
Wow! Fabulous! Thanks sooo much!
So cute! Thanks :)
Jodi
fun-in-first.blogspot.com
Thank you so much for sharing! We are subtracting using pumpkin seeds so this will be a great activity to add :)
Hi Abby,
We just returned from the pumpkin patch today. These will be perfect to use tomorrow..great timing. I just posted a unit for The Ugly Pumpkin on TPT. It takes you from Halloween into Thanksgiving and teaches a wonderful lesson about acceptance. It's a very sweet rhyming story. Thank you for these goodies.
Tammy
primaryparadise@blogspot.com
Once again, thanks for sharing! They'll go perfect with our pumpkin unit.
Thank you SO much for sharing...love your stuff!
Hey Abby! I LOVE all of your ideas! Thanks for sharing them with all of us! For some reason, I can't get these pumpkin documents to "open." :( Any chance you could post them on your TPT store? I am able to access your stuff from there without any problems. Thanks for any help you can give!
Abby I LOVE all of your ideas, units on TPT, freebies etc and I am ALWAYS reading ur blog(s) but NEVER have time to respond due to the madness of the job...until today! Anyway, I am a NYC school teacher and am blessed to have 28 (yes, TWENTY-EIGHT) lovely 1st graders. I have used many of your lessons with them in the past and we love graphing however, we never have enough boxes for all 28 students on the rare occasions when we do need to fill in all 28 of them. Would it be possible for you to either create another pumpkin seed data sheet that goes up to 28 or email me the template and I'll play around with it to make it fit 28? If not totally understand.
Thanks for always sharing such wonderful ideas. :)
Liz
Thank you so much! We're using this today and Monday. :)
Oh My Little Classity Class
I LOVE Pumpkin Circle!! Thanks for posting these sheets! We will be finishing our pumpkin unit next week and will be doing some seed estimation, and now I can do a whole day with pumpkin seeds! THANKS!
I need to get this book, thanks for sharing. Your activities are very cute.
Thanks Abby,
This is perfect for Monday morning before our Halloween party in the afternoon! I was going to make a graph this weekend for toasting pumpkin seeds..but now I don't have to! Thank you! Happy Halloween!
Michelle
Winnipeg, Canada
Thank you for the wonderful freebies! I plan on using these on Mondays.
These will be great on Monday! Thanks for the freebie!
Kristen
Whenever I try to load the pdf, it blurs out your questions for the data sheet! I just have black boxes instead. Have you heard of anyone else experiencing the same thing? It's super cute, but I can't get it to work for me!
I purchased your Candy Corn Bandit activity and did it with my class on Halloween. You do amazing work. My kiddos had a blast. They talked about it all week. Just purchased your Oh So Thankful! Can't wait to use it.
Will you be making books for short vowels as well?
Thank you for this! It was just what I was looking for!
THANK YOU!
I am a long term sub with no materials. Thank you so much for sharing this unit. You are a life saver and made my job a little easier.
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