Pumpkin Jack

A wonderful and delightful story about the life cycle of a pumpkin. The students not only enjoyed it but actually got it! So exciting! 

Using the story as our focus book for a week, we explored mental imaging, vocabulary, made connections, learned about life cycle of a pumpkin, inferred how the story might continue, and carved our very own pumpkin!  

Since election day is coming up, I thought it might be fun to learn about the democratic process. So we voted on the type of face to carve. The students helped with cleaning and prepping the pumpkin then I took over for the carving. (I know, I got the best part) The students were so excited! Inspired by the story, we wanted to name our pumpkin too. Back to voting we went. I am please to introduce you to...

"Is-A-Bella"

our class pumpkin!  

She's a pretty happy one, isn't she! This time of year is always super fun in the classroom. 

We also learned a chant "Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern, what do you see?" then wrote the response using sight words we have been learning.  The chant whole chant is:

Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern, What do you see?I see _____Looking at me.

To add to the fun, we made some pretty adorable pumpkins. The results were too cute! We just had to put them on the bulletin board for all to see. 

The vine has the title of the chant "Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern, What do you see?" with one word per leaf.