Fabulous Fours: October Fun!

We had a lot of fun during the month of October! We carved our class pumpkin, completed a pumpkin report, made our very own pumpkin masterpiece, and created monster masks.

The students enjoyed helping scoop out the pumpkin guts (pulp) out of the pumpkin. We learned how pumpkins grow and learned the parts of the pumpkin (rind, stem, pulp, and seeds). After we scooped the pulp out of the pumpkin, it was time for Ms. Hill to carve a jack o'lantern face. The students helped decide what shape eyes and nose and the type of mouth the pumpkin would have. They decided on triangle eyes, diamond nose, and a spooky, happy mouth.

We also counted the number of seeds in our pumpkin. The students placed a seed on our 100 counting chart one by one. It took a few trips around the table, but finally we reached 100! However, there were many more seeds so we started on our pumpkin report while Buttercup finished counting the seeds. There were 400!

Another fun activity we engaged in was creating our own pumpkin artwork. For our mini art lesson, the students had to follow directions and go step by step. First we learned how to draw a pumpkin. Draw a C and then a backwards C. Next add a stem (square on top), then draw lines on the pumpkin (careful not to go outside of the pumpkin), and finally draw a horizon line. After the students drew the pumpkin using a pencil, they went over their lines with a black crayon. Everyone did a great job staying on the pencil lines. Finally, it was time to paint! We used orange for the pumpkin and a little yellow for shading. We also used black for the night sky and green for the grass. After we were done, we had beautiful pumpkin masterpieces!