The students made Pumpkin Measurement predictions.....made graphs for how high and put pumpkins into sequence using large, medium and small....We did songs the children followed art....
Signing in to create his master piece...the children where encouraged to create the photo you see on the counter....they counted the pumpkins and made their very on masterpieces. This was amazing to see to the children recreate.
The children used counting mats and pumpkin seeds. To work on number recognition and one to one counting....The children found the number on the mat and counting that many pumpkin seeds to place on that number.....AMAZING work these Busy Bees did!
Art on Display...The Busy Bees made paper bag pumpkins and to work on that fine motor development....the Busy Bee's cut circles and pinch and tore paper to glue into the circle to make pumpkins!
We made size predictions....Each Busy Bee was asked to bring in a pumpkin from home and we made predictions about how much string we would need to fit around our pumpkins....The children then came to cut the string..... and measure their pumpkin.
After our measurements we discussed, enough, too much or not enough....The Busy bees them put their string where it belonged....Congratulations to the one student who made the correct predicition that was truly amazing....I picked too much.
We discussed similarities and differences, which was also our new vocabulary words.
Five Little Pumpkins poem...the dots you see helps the children follow the words as they read the poem.
Five Little Pumpkins
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said, "Oh my it's getting late."
The second one says, "There's witches in the air."
The third one says, "But we don't care"
The fourth one says, " Lets run and run and run.
The fifth one says, "I'm ready for some fun!"
Then ooooo went the wind...and out (hand clap) went the lights
and the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.
Our bubble map, what we knew and what we learned. Great growth Busy Bees
We also talked about the similiarites and differences of their favorite fruit...apples and pumpkins.
We wanted to know how tall our pumpkins are so we used blocks to measure the height of our pumpkins and then drew and looked at similiarites on our chart paper.
Pumpkin Pie Play Dough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup water
Food coloring ((Optional))
Combine the dry ingredients in a nonstick saucepan. Add the oil, water, and food coloring and whisk until smooth. Stirring constantly with a rubber spatula, cook the mixture over medium heat until it forms a ball, about 3 to 4 minutes.Turn the dough onto a counter, let it cool slightly, then knead the dough until it has a smooth texture, about 1 minute.
