I'm a little pumpkin, Orange and round....

       This week we focused on pumpkins for our fall unit, plus part of the week we did a few fun Halloween activities (those will be posted soon).

This is our five little pumpkins manipulative...mini erasers and tongue depressors.

In case you don't know the five little pumpkins:

                                                                    Five Little Pumpkins

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said, "Oh, my it's getting late!"
The second one said, "We don't care!"
The third one said, "There are bats all in the air!"
The fourth one said, "I'm ready for some fun!"
The fifth one said, "Let's run and run and run!"
Then Whoooooosh... went the wind,
And out went the light!
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

We recreated our 5 little pumpkins poem with stickers, construction paper and Popsicle sticks.

Learning the growth cycle of a pumpkin, with nomenclature cards. These are a little harder than simply matching a picture. First you match the picture, then you match the words. Since B isn't reading, he mostly match based on the first letter. He was not into this activity either, he was much more excited about the next box & what was in it.

Matching shapes on pumpkins. Find the patterns here.

Counting pumpkin seeds: we started at 10 and subtracted a few at a time (put a lesser number card where 8 is), this way once he made the seeds & card match, he got to eat the ones we took away. He was VERY excited about that.  

Matching fall themed cards; these are great, colorful photos that we'll be using through Thanksgiving. Matching Cards here

We made marbled pumpkins for our art project this week. We started with a template of six small pumpkins and a few drops of fall colored paint. Add a marble, roll, and...

you get this, which turned into ...

our cut out pumpkins.

B's pumpkins & leaves (from fall unit) were so cute; I decided we needed some fall decorations in our classroom. So during nap time, I punched holes in them and treaded twine through them. B was so excited when he saw his art hanging in the 'school'. He asked if Daddy's office had any, but we didn't make enough. ;(  Next year we will definitely make enough to decorate the whole house. They're so simple and sweet, and who doesn't like to save money when decorating for the holidays.

Okay, so these are bats, not pumpkins but the tray was pumpkins. B sorted the correct number of bats into the same numbered pumpkin. We are working on understanding that each number actually represents an amount.

Pumpkin books of the week:

The Pumpkin Patch Parable

is a sweet book teaches about how God made them new, full of light to shine in a dark world.