Pumpkin activity

In an effort to help you spend some fun and informative time with your child, I'd like to ask you to bring in a pumpkin for your child by Wednesday of next week.

I hope that you're able to spend some time with your child between now and Wednesday to travel to a pumpkin patch (or grocery store) and give your child the opportunity to choose the pumpkin which they like the color and shape of the most.  Take this opportunity to talk about colors and shapes. Talk about how pumpkins grow (on a vine vs. underground). Have your child lift pumpkins of various weights and compare.  Let your child feel different pumpkins.  Use words to describe how the pumpkin feels (rough, cold, etc.).  Have your child smell the pumpkin.  Ask your child to make a guess about how pumpkins grow and why people like to grow them. Modify these ideas to be age-appropriate. Hopefully this is a great chance to extend some of our fall-themed activities from class.

Again, please bring in this pumpkin by Wednesday, October 21st. We'll extend the pumpkin activities at school with the pumpkins children bring in (talk about them, compare them, count them, etc.).

-SS