We had more math fun today at our Jack-o-lantern Jubilee!! The children practiced estimating, measuring, weighing and counting skills. We set up 5 stations for the students to rotate into to discover the weight, circumference and number of seeds of 5 different pumpkins. After we estimated weight, circumference, and number of seeds, we compared the actual numbers for each pumpkin. We opened up our pumpkins to count the seeds. We discovered that our middle pumpkin had the most seeds of all. It had over 600 seeds. That pumpkin only weighed 5 pounds! Our 19 pound pumpkin did not have nearly as many as the 5 pounder. A big thank you to our helpers: Mrs. Penhallow, Mrs. Babbitt, Mrs. Geer and Miss Parnigoni. We carved our jack-o-lanterns and donated them to the Pumpkin Glow. We also used pumpkins to make pumpkin globes in another activity. We have been learning about the 7 continents and other parts of the globe. We placed the 7 continents and 4 oceans on the globe with the equator and the prime meridian.
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