After cleaning the seeds out of our pumpkins last week and letting them dry, we were ready to count them. We worked together to count the seeds out onto cards in groups of 10. There were soooo many seeds from our big pumpkin! Morah helped us put 10 cards with 10 seeds each into a group and explained that this made 100 seeds. We counted how many groups of 100 we had. The last group was missing 3 seeds but we figured out that we ALMOST had 500 seeds!
The next day, we looked in our pumpkin books for the recipe for roasting pumpkin seeds. We decided to make 2 trays of seeds…one salty and one sweet. We spread our 500 seeds out onto the trays and mixed them with oil and salt and oil, sugar, and cinnamon.
We did a taste test to see which seeds we preferred. We recorded our answers on a graph. When everyone had answered we interpreted the results. We could see that 7 friends preferred sweet and only 2 preferred salty.
We chose one pumpkin to record information about. When we have finished recording our information, we will display it in our hallway.
What size is the pumpkin?
How many lines does the pumpkin have?
What does the inside look like? We created a diagram and labeled it.
We have been using our Pattern Blocks and Mats this week. Pattern blocks teach children about shapes and geometry, as well as develop their visual discrimination skills.
Zimmer Pre-K & Kindergarten 