Of course the main letter Pp idea this week is PUMPKINS. We started off the week harvesting plastic pumpkins to take to our farmers market ( pretend of course) Tomorrow our school holds a pumpkin patch for the kids and it is alot of fun. We will be doing many activities incorporating pumpkins. One of my favorite is a math activity that I got from a friend a couple of years ago. We will have two die cut pumpkins for our paper. We will roll dice and glue ___ number of seeds on our first pumpkin. We will roll the dice again for the second pumpkin. Then we will add the 2 sets of seeds and write the number. Yes my 4 year old class is quite capable of counting seeds for addition. In fact they really like adding numbers together.
We also will be doing things with pizza ( like having a pizza party on Thursday). I made a math game a few years ago by cutting 4 brown circles for the pizza pie, strips of yellow for cheese, white little mushroom shapes, green strips for pepper, and red circles for pepperonis. ;( sadly I lost my original which was not a dice game but just a recognition of numbers game. They had to put 1 mushroom, 2 bell pepper, 3 cheese strips and 4 pepperonis. Since I lost my original we will be rolling the dice to find out how many of each topping and writing that number on a piece of paper.
Also I found some very cute pumpkin poems on a website last week. I will post the website later along with some more and pictures of the week. LOT'S OF FUN AHEAD!!!!! The website for the pumpkin and fall poems is www.teachers.net. I did not see the cutest poem that I found on that sight and cannot find it to post the resource but have included the poem below.
One day I found two pumpkin seeds.I planted one and pulled the weeds.
It sprouted roots and a big, long vine.
A pumpkin grew; I called it mine.
The pumpkin was quite round and fat
(I really am quite proud of that.)
But there is something I'll admit
That has me worried just a bit.
I ate the other seed, you see.
Now will it grow inside of me? (I'm so relieved since I have foundThat pumpkins only grow in the ground!)
ON A SIDE NOTE: Staples has some dollar bins I discovered today. I bought several packs of plastic paper clips to use as a linking pattern activity. Hey, Plastic Paperclips begins with Pp. We have another math activity
