October makes me think of pumpkins and oh what fun pumpkin time is! This bundle is filled with marvelous activities for a pumpkin theme week or even month. It has informational text, literature suggestions, writing activities, and an awesome book companion for one of my favorite pumpkin stories. You’ll be so glad you picked this bundle!! Take a peek!
Week Eight focuses on pumpkins. Four delightful stories are used: Spookley the Square Pumpkin, The Bumpy Little Pumpkin, It’s Pumpkin Time and How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin. Each are non fiction stories with the perfect opportunity to grow curriculum development and connect real life to experiences to skills.
On Halloween night a storm is approaching.
Will Spookley the Square pumpkin be able to save the pumpkin patch?
This story is so much fun and it has a wonderful message to share with the students.
It is perfect for a math activity in discussing different shapes and for science the concept of roll and slide.
This resource has:
A cute pumpkin craft: Perfect for a bulletin board (Our crazy pumpkin patch)
Comprehension: Story Elements, Cause and Effect, Authors Purpose, Compare and Contrast
Word Work: Shape vocabulary and ABC order
Writing: Sequencing, retell, narrative (Pages provided for final write as well as a graphic organizer for preparing a well organized paragraph.)
Recommendations for use of activity pages.
The resource is perfect for a “pumpkin” day!
It’s pumpkin time!!! My favorite time of the year.
For me it begins the first of October and lasts until mid November.
During that time I love filling my centers with Pumpkin Themed activities.
In this resource you will find:
Literacy List
Vocabulary Cards
Word Work…ABC Order, Syllables, Making Words
Gift Tags: A Little Pumpkin for You, You Are the Pumpkin In My Patch
Tic Tac Toe…Color for laminating or small black and white for partner use.
The Pumpkin Seed … Poem and Activity
Writing… A pumpkin (is has grows)
Pumpkin Math Games…Roll the dice, Add and Move (add and subtract to 12)
Five Little Pumpkins…Large for interacting, smaller one for student use.
Parts of a Pumpkin…One for center use and another for student use.
Pumpkin Life Cycle… One for center use and another for student use.
Mini Book…From Seed to Pumpkin (Informational Text)
All About My Pumpkin … Experimenting with a pumpkin.
From brightly colored, pumpkin themed anchor charts, SAVE MY INK practice pages, and a pumpkin craft to create a perfect pumpkin patch this packet will delight you.
The pumpkin theme fits perfect for October and into early November and contains activities that hit key Common Core Standards in reading, writing, and word work.
It contains activities and literature suggestions for:
How Many Seeds in A Pumpkin?
It’s Pumpkin Time
Gail Gibbons Pumpkins
From Seed to Pumpkin…Scholastic
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
The Lumpy Pumpkin
At the end we placed a few math games into the “patch”!
In the packet you will find:
PUMPKIN THEMED VOCABULARY CARDS
Word Search
ABC Order
Let’s Make Words
Includes materials for a word work center
PARTS OF SPEECH…ADJECTIVES,NOUNS,VERBS
Colorful anchor charts on each
Colorful vocabulary cards for each
Save My Ink practice pages
5 Practice pages
PUNCTUATION
Commas with multiple adjectives
3 types of sentences
5 practice pages
WRITING…INFORMATIONAL, NARRATIVE, OPINION
Colorful anchor charts for each style
Practice pages include…
Graphic Orgnaizers
Prewrites
Final Copy forms in simple to complex forms
Page for illustration
POETRY
Anchor chart with poem
Poem with skills activity…identify adjectives
Write a sentence using adjectives
Pumpkin Personification
LITERATURE SUGGESTIONS
Informational, Realistic Fiction
My Lumpy Pumpkin
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
Pumpkins by Gibbons
Comprehension pages for each literature suggestion
Mini book containing informational text
True or False follow up
Reading for Detail
MATHEMATICS…Pumpkin Themed
Data Collection
Word Problems
Ordinal Numbers
Patterns
Doubles…Gameboard with pumpkin Theme
It is always fun writing “how to” stories with students. How to carve a pumpkin is perfect for this time of year. After the students complete the graphic organizers and the final write, a class book cover is provided to put all their ideas together. Students will love reading each others “recipes”.
Graphic Organizers
Informational text … Pumpkin Life Cycle, How To Carve a Pumpkin
Sequencing Organizers
Colorful vocabulary
How to suggestion cards
Class Book Cover
3 Differentiated Final Write Pages
Word Work… ABC Order, Word Search, Making Words
Be sure to pick up this FREEBIE!! The perfect game for the whole class based on facts or opinions about pumpkins.
This is such a special story. First because it has the perfect October theme and second its message that pumpkins come in all shapes and sizes but each one is special.
The Bumpy Little Pumpkin by Marjory Cuyler is wonderful to use for Guided Reading. The resource includes activities for the literacy portion of your day; vocabulary, word work, comprehension activities and writing. There is also an adorable pumpkin craft easy for students just copy, cut and design. You will want to “pick” this resource from the patch.
Vocabulary for posting
Word Work: ABC Order, Word Search, Antonyms/Synonyms
Comprehension: Cause/Effect, Story Elements, Recall, Sequencing, Author’s Purpose, Compare/Contrast
Writing: Pre Write, Differentiated Writing pages, Class Book cover
Craft: Simple pumpkin or Jack-o-Lantern
Have you ever wondered How Many Seeds Are In the Pumpkin? This book is wonderful for thinking about just that. Charlie is the smallest and feels bad. But when the class experiments with three sizes of pumpkins to find out which one has the most seeds the smallest one wins. The story has a heartwarming message and informational text about a pumpkin seed discovery. Perfect for class participation and experimentation. The resource includes lesson plans, reading, writing, word work activities and a craft.
