Happy Fall Y'all- pumpkins!

 All week long we have been learning about pumpkins. It's been so fun to see what the kids already know but also to watch them learn new things. We created interactive notebooks this week where we put all the pumpkin information and activities. Here are a few pictures from the pumpkin activities we did this week:

On Monday, we discussed what we already knew about pumpkins.

On Tuesday, we estimated the circumference and height of the pumpkin using cubes and yarn. 

Then we measured to see how close our predictions were to the actual lengths. 

We predicted whether a pumpkin would sink or float. We also predicted how many seeds would be in a pumpkin. Any guesses? 

Here are the results (and the surprised faces!):

59 seeds was the final count! 

On Thursday we had a pumpkin tasting! We tasted pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, and pumpkin seeds. You can tell from the pictures if they like pumpkin or not. Haha! We graphed our favorites while we were tasting! 

We had a great time this week in the science lab!! 

Candy Pumpkin Experiment

Last week the class had a great time doing our first experiment! Everyone was so excited to use a new tool, the beaker! Each beaker had a different liquid in it (water, milk, oil, and vinegar). The students predicted whether the candy would sink or float in each liquid. Then they found out if their predictions were correct and recorded what happened. Next we learned that "dissolve" means to disappear. We watch how the pumpkins dissolved differently in each liquid. After observing and talking about what was happening, I took out the candy and the students drew what the candy looked like. The kids' favorite part was getting to eat the left over candy of course!