Pumpkins Continued...

Today we finished the second week of our three weeks of pumpkins!  This week I focused on the growing of pumpkins, so we learned about the life cycle and the when, how, and where to grow pumpkins.  The first day we read The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin, and filled in a pumpkin life cycle circle.  I found a worksheet for this in an old Mailbox magazine that I had, but it would be easy to make yourself.  You would just need to print out or draw a large circle and divide it into 4 equal sections.   In the first section we put our seeds (cut from brown construction paper), in the second section we made a pumpkin vine (a piece of green yarn and some green construction paper leaves), in the third section was the flower (yellow tissue paper crumpled up), and in the fourth section was a pumpkin (cut from orange construction paper).  My 4 year old could have done all of this on her own, but I cut everything out beforehand for my 2 year old.  The gluing he could do by himself!

On the second day we read Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie, and did another pumpkin life cycle activity.  I found this worksheet awhile ago, and I can't remember exactly where I printed it from.  I think it may have been form Teacher File Box.  Anyway, this worksheet had 6 different boxes with different stages of the pumpkin growing cycle.  K and E cut out the squares and glued them on a piece of orange construction paper in the correct order.  I let E try scissors for the first time today.  It went ok, but he got frustrated really easily.  He is in the "I want to do it by myself" stage, but doesn't have the coordination that would allow him to do all of the things he wants to do.  I knew that E would need a lot of help with this one, so we did it together.  (This first picture is his "mad about the scissors" picture!)