This is only the beginning... seeing as we haven't baked anything yet and how can you do a unit on a food item and not bake anything. Yes, I know, ridiculous.
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| My new love is sugar pumpkin - and I also loved that the lady at the checkout stand only charged my 69 cents for the entire pumpkin, and not per pound. That was lovely. |
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| Joshua really really really wanted to count ALL the seeds in the pumpkin |
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| We washed and dried these seeds to use next year to plant in our garden. Hopefully they aren't (but I'm guessing they probably are) genetically altered so that they wont actually grow. That would be disappointing. |
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| We did count some seeds. These pumpkins represent the people in our family (Maren is a cousin) and the seeds represent how many years old that person is. Lukas only got a part of a seed because he's not one yet and I added an extra seed on mine since my birthday in just in a couple of weeks. This project really helped Joshua visualize what age really means and how old we (his parents) really are. He was especially impressed when we counted out the seeds it takes to make up Grandpa Bob!!! |
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| There were 6 pages in each book. The first is of a pumpkin seed, the second is the seed beginning to grow, the third is of a full size pumpkin, and the last three the kids could draw the things you can do with a pumpkin, such as jack-o-lanterns, pie, and cupcakes (I have never heard of a pumpkin cupcake but I'm sure it can be done.) |
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| Some of the books we have been reading. |
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