Pumpkin Investigation

You could feel the excitement in the air!

Grade Ones LOVE their Grade Three buddies!

Today the two classes were able to spend time together to  learn 

a little bit more about pumpkins.

Surprise!  Heavy pumpkins float!  Do you know why?

The students learned that there are many ways to measure

a pumpkin.  One of the ways is to find out how heavy the

pumpkin is.  The students used balance scales and little toy bears

to find out if their predictions were correct.

The students learned that it is alright not to be correct when you predict.

The students looked at three ribbons, a short white ribbon, a

medium green ribbon and a longer red ribbon.  They

thought about which ribbon would be the best to choose

to find out how large the pumpkin was around.

Back in our regular classroom we had read some books about the

stages of a pumpkin, known as the life cycle.

The Grade One students had painted a paper plate orange, and

used it to be the backdrop for pasting small flip cards for the

six steps in the pumpkin life cycle.

There was a lot of co-operation needed as the life cycle needed

to be coloured, cut out and pasted in the correct sequence.

Using a finger, the students added pumpkins to a vine, to

create a counting book.

The students were busy, busy, busy!

These moments of watching the older help the littles are magical!