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           spider                                  pumpkin                                      bat

Counting Pumpkins and Seeds

Using Pumpkin Treat Bowls to Teach

                                    Submitted by Sandi Reyes

                                      
Purchase inexpensive small pumpkin treat bowls, pumpkin cups, or make your own by covering pint sized milk containers with orange construction paper and drawing on the face.  On each pumpkin container, write a sight word, word family chunk, or letter of the alphabet.  Provide popcicle sticks with corresponding words or pictures for students to sort into the correct container. 

Sight words - students match the sight word on the stick to that on the container.

Letter of the alphabet - Students can match uppercase letters on the container to lowercase letters on the popsicle sticks.  If you put picture stickers on the sticks, students can sort by initial consonant, ending consonant, medial vowel, etc.

Word Families - Students match either words or pictures on the popsicle sticks to the correct work family chunk on the container.

For Math integration, use number words on the containers and the numerals or the corresponding number of stickers on the sticks.

This adorable take-off from Brown Bear, Brown Bear will delight your little ones and give them a book they can really read.  Have them read the book and color the pictures correctly, according to the words.

Connect literacy to Math and Science with this Pumpkin Journal.  Students examine a real pumpkin and record their observations.  The journal includes pages for drawing the pumpkin, experimenting with the pumpkin in water, measuring with unifix cubes, counting the ribs, weighing, drawing the inside, and predicting what will happen to it in a month.

Student work in pairs.  One student will roll for spiders and one will roll for flies.  Each pair will need 2 copies of the workpage, 2 different colored dice, a bunch of plastic spiders and flies, and a pencil.  The "fly" rolls the die first, fills in the box to the left of the fly on the workpage, and places the correct number of flies into the space below.  The "spider" rolls next and follows the same procedure (filling the number into the box to right of the spider and adding the plastic spiders to the blank).  Students look at the spiders and flies decide which has more and places the "greater than" or "less than" sign in the middle space provided.  Students remove the spiders and the flies and draw in the correct number of spiders and flies on each side.  Students continue this procedure 4 times, until both pages have been completed.

Recipe 2
Each child will need:
1 mini Oreo cookie
1 larger round cookie
1 spoonful of chocolate frosting
8 small pieces of chocolate licorace
2 red hot candies
1 small piece of red licorace

Use a mini Oreo cookie for the head and any other regular sized round cookie for the body.  Students connect them together using chocolate frosting and cover the entire spider with the frosting also.  Connect chocolate licorace legs, red hots for eyes, and a red licorace mouth.

Open the cans and peel off the crescent roll dough pieces, one by one.  Place the triangular shaped dough so that the tall point is at the top.  To form the ghost shape, students bend the top point under the dough and round off the top for the ghost's head.  Press fingers into the bottom of the triangle, making it wavy, like the bottom of a ghost.  Encourage students to use their imaginations.  Line a cookie sheet with foil and brush with a light coating of oil.  Place the ghosts on the foil and brush the top of each ghost with a light coating of oil.  Bake at 375 degrees for approximately 13 minutes, until brown.  Remove from the oven.  While ghosts are still warm, coat the top and bottom of each ghost with confectioner's (powdered) sugar.  Once coated, add large chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth.  Turn the chocolate chips upside down, and push them gently in the ghost, so that the flat round bottom of the chip is showing.  Let ghosts cool down a bit.  The chips will melt a little, making them milky.  These yummy treats taste similar to a funnel cake!

THESE MUST BE PRINTED ON LEGAL SIZE PAPER.  Print 1 mat for each child.  There are 7 rows of animal pictures, so divide the # of students by 7 and print that many animal picture pages.  There are 22 rows of names, you will only need 1 or 2 of those.  Provide each child with the sequencing mat, one row of the animal pictures and one row of the animal names.  Students cut out the animal pictures and names and glue them down in the correct order on the sequencing mat.  Students can then color the mat and draw in background details.

Provide each child with 1 large and 1 small shell.  Have students place the small shell on top, in the center of the large shell.  The small shell will be the little old lady's face.  The large shell is the "plate".  Each student will use 2 olives for eyes, 1 tomato slice for a nose, the string cheese (peeled apart) to bend into glasses, shredded lettuce for hair, a large rounded spoonful of chili for a large open mouth, and the slice of pepper for the fly.  Once the faces are complete, students can fold the larger taco in half and eat.