Pumpkin Investigation

I totally forgot to upload our pictures from our pumpkin investigation last Wednesday! I hope you all had an amazing long weekend with your kids! I just want to share some of our pictures from last week…the kiddos had a BLAST getting their paws into these pumpkin guts. Enjoy the pictures!

 I was so impressed with how clean some of these pumpkins got! I mean seriously...can they come carve and clean out my pumpkins??

A couple of groups of front "investigating" their pumpkins...time to dig out those seeds after making our estimations! 

SMILE! How do they not make you smile? :)

Below is one group showing the rest of the class what they needed to do with their seeds once they got all the "guts" out! I love having the students explain directions in action! Plus they love to be the teacher! 

Before the wash...

After the wash...

Cleaned out and possibly ready to carve?? We (me) carved two pumpkins in class this day...the focus was for them to understand all the important parts when carving a pumpkin...we had to first cut the top off, clean out the "guts", plan, choose a design, vote for a design, color on our design, and then we cut! I had a really good knife for carving thats why we were able to get two done! 

Below is our first design (vampire) and our second design (minion) The minion was carved into someones pumpkin that they brought, so they were able to bring it home...I told him he NEEDED to get a picture of it lit up to show the class! Also we had a drawing at the end of the day for the extra pumpkins. We have a classroom spinner on our smart board and the four names that were chosen got to take home a hollowed out pumpkin! Share pictures with us if you carved them! The class would love to see what they got turned in too..