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Investigating Pumpkins

1-2-3 Come Measure Pumpkins With Me!

Since the Apple Investigation booklet was such an overwhelming success, I decided to make one for your pumpkin studies.  This quick and easy booklet, will help your kiddo's learn about measurement in an interesting and fun way.

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Introduce measurement, by showing students all of the measuring materials and ask them if they know the names of these objects and what they are used for. 

Discuss the value of measurement, as well as how and why people measure things. 

You can do this booklet as a whole group activity using one or two large pumpkins, have students work in groups of 2-5 sharing a pumpkin, or use miniature pumpkins, and ask for donations. 

One year I had a parent who grew the gourds that look like miniature pumpkins; they brought in an entire box full. Another year, a child's family grew pumpkins, and donated a class supply of really small ones.  Often, farm markets will give teachers a discount, if you simply ask. 

pumpkin activities, pumpkin lessons, pumpkin centers, pumpkin math, common core pumpkins, measuring pumpkins, measurement activities, measuring lessons, measuring worksheets, pumpkin booklets, Allow a few minutes for children to really examine their pumpkin by touching it, smelling it, and then describing their pumpkin to a partner etc.  I think one of their favorite pages will be measuring a partner with a pumpkin.

To make this do-able for non or beginning readers, work on the booklet as a whole group.  Read the 1st page aloud and model what you want your students to do, then have children do that portion of their investigation with their pumpkin. 

If you are teaching PreK, you might want to do just 1 booklet as a class.  Older students can work on this independently.  Allow enough time, so children don't feel rushed, and everyone gets a turn using the scale etc. 

To expedite things, you may want to borrow several other scales from fellow teachers for that part of your day.  To keep interest, with little ones, and because of time, you can also work on just one or two pages a day.

When your pumpkin booklet is completed, read it aloud once more, and have children share their results as you read that page.

Reinforce vocabulary by reviewing the measurement tools and words, and asking students: "What is a scale? What is it used for?"  "What is height? How can you measure it?" etc.  Click on the link to view/download the Pumpkin Investigation booklet. Looking for more Pumpkin Activities? Click on the link to pop on over to that section of my site for lots more FREEBIES!

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"The whole art of teaching, is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds, for the purpose of satisfying them afterwards." -Anatole France

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Investigating Apples

1-2-3 Come Measure Apples With Me!

Help your students learn about measurement, with this quick, easy and fun booklet.  Students measure height, weight, width and circumference of their apple. They trace and write vocabulary-building words, predict, answer questions, + collect and analyze data.  Investigating apples via this booklet, will help with Common Core State Standards: K.MD.1a, K.MD.2, 1.MD.1, and 1.MD.2.

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Ask for a bag of apples to be donated to the class, or have each child bring 1 or 2 in. (Make sure to buy a few extras yourself, for those children whose parents forgot.) Allow a few moments for children to really examine their apple by touching it, smelling it, describing their apple to a partner etc.

To make this do-able for non or beginning readers, work on the booklet as a whole group.  Read the 1st page aloud and model what you want your students to do, then have children do that portion of their investigation.  If you are teaching pre k you might want to do just 1 booklet as a class.  Older students can work on this independently.  Allow enough time so children don't feel rushed, and so everyone gets a turn using the scale.  To expedite things, you may want to borrow several other scales from fellow teachers for that part of your day.  To keep interest, with little ones, and because of time, you can also work on just one or two pages a day.

When your booklet is completed, read it aloud once more, and have children share their results as you read that page. Reinforce vocabulary by reviewing the measurement tools and words, and asking students: "What is a scale? What is it used for?"  "What is height? How can you measure it?" etc.

Click on the link to view/download the Apple Investigation booklet. 

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100-Day Activities With A Pig Theme

This Little Piggy Went To Market, and This Little Piggy Went To School For 100-Day!

100 day activities, 100 Day pig-themed activities, money activities, What started out to be a few simple piggy bank worksheets, to help students count coins to 100, turned into a  whopping 50-page 100-Day Piggy Packet.

100 day activities, 100 day with a pig theme, 100 day worksheets, money activities, coin activities, 100 day gamesYou don't have to use it just for 100-Day, reviewing these "hog wild" counting skills, throughout the year, is important no matter what the day, and it's nice to have a variety of tricks in your bag of how to do that in an interesting way. 

After all, counting to 100 can get quite boring for some little ones, and extremely frustrating for those kiddo's whose light bulbs haven't lit up yet. With that in mind, I designed the Q-tip mud craftivity to the right.  Students dab brown paint on the 10 groups of 10 dots on the dirty piggy.  For less mess, children could use a brown crayon to color in the dots.

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  • 8 Piggy bank pages for pennies, nickels, dimes & quarters.  Students can color and count the filled banks, or color, cut and glue the coins inside an empty bank. 
  • Coin to coin word matching worksheet
  • 1 letter words, to more than 5 letter-words skill sheet
  • Game sheet: "Race your pig to 100."
  • Game sheet:  "Spin To Win!" coin counting to 100 + 2 coin spinners.
  • Tally Ho tally mark worksheet.
  • Graphing extension
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  • How much money? Addition worksheet
  • 2 Measurement activity worksheets
  • Counting pigs by 5's to 100 worksheet
  • Counting pigs by 10's to 100 worksheet
  • Name Your Pig 100-Grid worksheet
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  • Pig slider "craftivity" counting by 10's & counting by 5's
  • Piggy Popsicles "craftivity" counting by 10's.  +
  • A blank sheet of pigs for you to program with whatever you want.  Use them for name tags, other numbers, letters etc.
  • "Craftivity" counting Q-Tip mud spatters to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's
  • 3 counting worksheets. Counting by 1's to 100 & 120 and skip counting by 5's and 10's
  • 2 connect-the-dot worksheets.  Counting by 5's and by 10's to 100.
  • 2 Q-Tip Pig in the Mud "Craftivities."
  • 2 Happy 100 Day posters. 1 in color, 1 in black and white so children can color.
  • 3 different certificates of praise for "Hog Wild" counting + a
  • Happy 100-Day bookmark

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I hope your students have as much fun doing the lessons, as I had creating them.

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