Pumpkins

It has definitely felt like fall in Mrs. Newman's kindergarten this week. We have been learning all about pumpkins.

We read LOTS of books about pumpkins. Some were fiction and told us made up stories, others were non-fiction and told us about real pumpkins and how they grow. We also watched a video about giant pumpkins from Oregon.

We made mobiles that show the life cycle of pumpkins.

On Thursday we made predictions about what we thought the inside of a pumpkin might look like. Then we opened up our pumpkins and cleaned them out. There was a lot of goo and seeds!
When we got them all cleaned out and we cleaned up our desks, we drew a picture of what our pumpkins really looked like inside and we compared our prediction to what we observed.

In the afternoon Mrs. Newman cooked the seeds we clean out of the pumpkins. We could smell them cooking and when they were cooled we ate them. Not very many of us liked it. We would have enjoyed a pumpkin pie more! :)