Seed to Jack-o-Lantern!

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How can that great big pumpkin begin with a teeny tiny seed?

Your class will love working through this unit.

It is filled with activities to teach curriculum with a pumpkin theme.

Begin by having your class make these adorable pumpkins for decorating your classroom, hallway or locker. Create different sizes and allow students to create their own mouth.

You won't be disappointed.

Follow that by reading the informational text.

This booklet works well with guided reading.

Allow students to highlight key vocabulary and facts.

There is a true/false for assessment.

They will use this booklet again and again throughout the unit to read and reread.

There are many word work activities as well as colorful vocabulary to post.

Word Search

Parts of Speech

ABC Order

Making Words

Vocabulary

Each activity works well in your literacy center as well as a whole group lesson.

Writing includes narrative, opinion and informational.

There are graphic organizers for collecting ideas and differentiated final write pages (shown below).

Focus is on pumpkin faces (opinion), life cycle of a pumpkin (informational) and picking the perfect pumpkin (narrative).

I enjoy using poetry in this unit to work with adjectives.

How many words can you use to describe a pumpkin?

And working with the life cycle of the pumpkin activities are plentiful.

Here you will see more grammar activities such as using adjectives, writing complete sentences and identifying types of sentences.

There are also literature suggestions in this packet.

Informational (How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin), opinion(They Bumpy, Lumpy Pumpkin) and  narrative (It's Pumpkin Time).

These read aloud stories are filled with delightful illustrations and even pumpkin facts.

Did you know the more lines on a pumpkin the longer it was on the vine and the more seeds it has?

I have even included a little math so that each part of the curriculum can be covered.

SO MUCH FUN!!