Pumpkin Math!

We have been working on numbers 1-5 in math.  Last week Mrs. Heyde had a non fiction pumpkin book she read to kick off our pumpkin activities. After reading a book about pumpkins, describing pumpkins, and writing in our treasure books about what we observed from the pumpkin, we BOWLED with pumpkins! Boy, was that fun!!

We set up a tower of paper towels (pins), put our big pumpkin on the ground and rolled to see how many pins we could knock over.  A few of us got gutter balls but we still had fun!



Looks like a strike!!

 And of course we had to cheer on our teammates!

I loved the idea of pumpkin bowling so much that we tied it into math later in the week. We discussed different ways to make the numbers 1-5. I first showed them examples....

Then we broke into groups and tried on our own...



We recorded out numbers (or ways to make each number) on white boards...



One pin standing, one pin laying...1 and 1 makes 2.



We've been doing lots of other fun things and reading great books about pumpkins over the last couple weeks (more on that later!) ...I am even growing pumpkins at home and taking pictures to share as they go through each life cycle! I was so thankful for the rain this past weekend and am praying we get at least one pumpkin I can bring in to the class!



Grow baby, GROW!!



**Please send a pumpkin to school by Friday! I don't care about size as long as it can fit into their backpacks!  Thank you!