How Does a Pumpkin Grow and Glow?

In this Halloween coloring learning exercise, students read the sentence and trace the two words pumpkin and face. Students color the picture of the Jack-O-Lantern.

In this Jack-o-Lantern glyph worksheet, students use the legend to draw a Jack-o-Lantern that illustrates their own personal information. Students then write about the person the illustrated Jack-o-Lantern represents on the last page.

Students visit a pumpkin farm and discuss the characteristics of a pumpkin and how they grow. They create a class story about the trip to the farm with each student supplying a sequence for the story.

In this showing feelings activity, students read a poem about emotions and draw happy, sad, scared, mad, silly, and glad faces on the pumpkins. Students draw 6 pictures.

Have a Happy Halloween and build strong oral language skills. Special needs Pupils functioning at a moderate level can practice sequencing, writing lists, and using oral language by explaining how they carve a pumpkin. 

Set a spooky mood with this presentation about Jack-O-Lanterns. Use the presentation on Halloween to reinforce holiday vocabulary, or as a backdrop to a class Halloween party.

In this Halloween worksheet, students complete a dot to dot Jack O Lantern puzzle by starting at the number 1 and following through to the number 24. They count the numbers as they complete the picture.

From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.

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...

First graders listen to the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear." students listen to a poem, "Jack O' Lantern, Jack O' Lantern," and take turns retelling it. They draw the poem in correct sequence on paper to retell it.