Our Class Pumpkin

To go along with our IB unit, Changes, we spent Monday talking about the life cycle of a pumpkin.   

We read Pumpkin Circle.

After reading the book, the boys and girls had to put the events of a pumpkin's life cycle in the correct order.

They thought it was neat that the cycle begins with a seed and ends with a seed.

Next, we read How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

We observed our pumpkin before cutting it open.  We made a list of adjectives that described it, measured it, weighed it, and predicted how many seeds we thought were in it.

I wish you could have heard the squeals while cleaning out our pumpkin.

They worked so hard to get every single seed.

They could not believe how cold the pulp was.

This is just some of the seeds.  There were lots more to get out!

Grayson's face is PRICELESS!

Cameron is not sure he likes it??

We left them out overnight to dry, so we could count them on Tuesday. 

We discussed all the ways we could group our seeds to count them :  ones, fives, tens, hundreds.....
We agreed to put them in groups of ten.  After the students could not agree on a total, we decided to group them by hundreds.  This made it a lot easier to get an answer!  We finally all agreed! 

Our pumpkin had 581 seeds!

We are going to leave our pumpkin in the room over the next several weeks so we can observe and document the changes that take place.