Pumpkins Week One

This week was the first week of our Pumpkins unit. We talked a lot about the life cycle of a pumpkin in addition to the letter Hh, teen numbers, and the words he and she.

 

We cut open a pumpkin and explored the inside. We saved some of the pumpkin seeds to roast for cooking then filled the pumpkin with dirt then predicted what would happen if we watered the pumpkin.

 

We practiced our cutting skills by making some orange "pumpkin" lanterns to hang up for a fall decoration. 

 

 

We started our shapes focus by not only reviewing our basic shapes but also by introducing some new math vocabulary.

 

 We learned what the words "side" and "vertex" (or corner) mean in terms of shapes then practiced making shapes with colored popsicle sticks.

 

 

After introducing the letter Hh, we made an H is for House craft to add to our craft books.

 

We also learned to differentiate between uppercase and lowercase Hh by sorting them out.

 

We practiced our new sight words: he and she.

 

For cooking, the children helped get seeds out of a pumpkin, wash them off, then roast them in a toaster oven before taste testing them. 

They loved them!

 

We also practiced our teen numbers by doing a few pages in our teen numbers book. The children got to use one-hole paper punches to punch ten frames to correspond to the number on each page.

 

We also talked about different ways to make 10 (pictures, ten frames, base ten blocks, etc.)

 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Poyzer