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Pumpkin Patch
An excellent lesson plan about pumpkins is designed for young learners! This thorough plan has terrific suggestions for activities to do using pumpkins, ideas for art projects, books to read, some nice coloring sheets, and a page of...
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Halloween Pumpkin Multiplication
A 19x20 grid showcases 380 multiplication problems that young mathematicians must solve to create a colorful picture. In this case, it's a pumpkin! Green, black, orange, and red-orange colored crayons are necessary to create a beautiful...
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BIG Pumpkins!
How big is the biggest pumpkin you've ever seen? Did it weigh over a ton—literally? Young learners view pictures of some record-breaking pumpkins, including some that weighed over 1,300 pounds, before answering five word problems about...
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Pumpkins
The pumpkin might be the single most amazing plant for youngsters. It's so big! It's leaves, it's stems, it's fruit! And it is easy to grow! This lesson describes all sorts of wonderful pumpkin ideas. Everything from pumpkin stories,...
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Pumpkin Science
Here is a nice lesson, which includes some good worksheets, on pumpkins and how they grow. It is an ESL lesson designed for beginning and early intermediate students. After listening to some books about pumpkins, learners label pumpkin...
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Silly Halloween Match-Up
October is a wonderful time for fall colors, pumpkins, and best of all making silly faces. Challenge your class to match up these silly faces with their pair. There are a total of five pairs to be made. The answer sheet is included.
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Pumpkin and Ghost Garland
Reading scary stories on Halloween is frightfully good fun! As elementary learners read several stories for the holiday, they choose a favorite and create a decorative garland representing the characters and setting elements found in the...
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My Pumpkin Story
Have young pumpkin carvers use technology to create a unique pumpkin face and write a short story about the special characteristics of their pumpkin.
Itsy Bitsy Fun
Halloween Color By Numbers
Bring some Halloween math to the class for a spooktacular addition to your instruction. Here, scholars color by number to uncover four spooky scenes including a pumpkin, a bat flying across the moon, haunted trees, and a cat.
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Predicting Pumpkins
If you want more pumpkin seeds, you should get a bigger pumpkin—right? Young harvesters use estimation skills to make a hypothesis about how many seeds they will find in a pumpkin before examining the real number inside.
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Pumpkin Life Cycle
From seed to jack-o-lantern, young scholars walk step-by-step through the life cycle of pumpkins with this fun art and science activity. After first participating in a shared reading of the children's book Pumpkin, Pumpkin children color...
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Talking Pumpkin Story Starter
Get your ghouls and gals writing on Halloween! Learners write about what their jack o' lantern said when it suddenly came to life. A cute pumpkin graphic and a fun font spices up the resource.
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Oodles Of Pumpkins
Students investigate the holiday of Halloween and focus upon the creation and origin of jack-o'-lanterns. They look through various resources and then observations are made of how pumpkins are grown. Then students create drawings with...
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Halloween Pumpkin Dot-to-Dot
In this dot-to-dot puzzle instructional activity, students connect the dots numbered from one to twenty-nine to form a set of Halloween pumpkins.
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Halloween Center Activity
In this Halloween pumpkin activity worksheet, students follow the directions to make a jack o'lantern with a face of their choosing.
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Pumpkin Predictions
It's time for Halloween and math! Perfect for Fall, this simple worksheet provides a grid for young mathematicians to record their predictions about a pumpkin's height, stem length, diameter, circumference, and weight. After learners...
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Pumpkin Puzzler
Light the Halloween festivities with an exercise that connects math, physical science, and language arts. After watching a demonstration of a burning candle, learners use division, multiplication, or algebra to determine how many boxes...
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Dancing Pumpkin Man
Students listen carefully and put pieces together following the teacher's instructions. They point to the different shapes and sizes as they are being called out and count the number of items they have in front of them. They decorate...
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How a Pumpkin Grows
In this picture story pumpkin worksheet, students color and cut apart 6 parts of the story of pumpkin growing from planting the seed to eating pie. This could be used to sequence a story.
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Halloween Worksheets: Emotions Jack-O-Lanterns
Scholars give life to a pumpkin as they design a Jack O'Lantern that exudes a certain emotion. Participants choose one of nine feeling words, or add up to three that aren't listed, locate and cut out face pieces, then glue them to the...
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Introduce Vocabulary: It's Pumpkin Time (Hall)
Looking for a Halloween-themed vocabulary activity? Study words in context using Zoe Hall's story It's Pumpkin Time, an excellent informational text for budding readers. The spooky suggested words are: buds, gather, hollow,...
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Halloween Painted Rocks
Halloween rocks! Young learners gather different shaped rocks and create Halloween decorations using the rocks, paints, and various art supplies. The lesson plan offers opportunities to craft three rock creations, including pumpkins,...
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In the Pumpkin (Dans la Citrouille)
Students discover French language vocabulary. In this French language lesson, students create a harvest soup and sing a French song.
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Pumpkins... Not Just For Halloween
Celebrate fall with four pumpkin themed hands-on activities! After learning about pumpkins, scholars complete two activity sheets that reinforce estimation and word problems. They then plant pumpkin seeds and bake a pie in a bag.