What Can You Do With a Pumpkin?

Last week each math group was given a pumpkin and the question - 'what can you do with a pumpkin?'

 

We read a number of pumpkin stories and non-fiction texts and got to work!

 

Each group measure their pumpkin in a variety of ways to see how tall, how fat, and how heavy the pumpkin was.

 

We asked a lot of interesting pumpkin questions:

-Why do pumpkins turn orange?

- Why is one side of the pumpkin flat?

-Do pumpkins grow on trees?

-What animals eat pumpkins?

 

And we experimented with our pumpkins to find some answers:

 

Do pumpkins float in water? Yes, they do!

 

 

How can a kid move a pumpkin when it is too heavy to list it? We can attach it to string and pull it!

 

How far can we push a pumpkin? Let's have a bowling race!

 

 

We opened our pumpkins and sorted the seeds. We made predictions of how many seed were in our pumpkin, and we discussed together different ways to count our seeds. By 2s, by 5s, and by 10s.

 

 

Then of course, we made faces on our pumpkins. One is happy, one is a star, one is scary, and one is a picture of Sad Monster!