Pumpkin Day - 2nd Grade Pumpkin Activities
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Description
Your students are already excited for fall, pumpkins, and Halloween...channel that excitement into a day, or week, of fun with learning and pumpkins. This unit includes a variety of activities all around pumpkins that will take you from reading, to math, and even science! Trying to do something fun around Halloween, but it not be all about Halloween? This is the resource for you!
Printable reading worksheets that you can use with most any book are included with this resource. Pull from books you already have or head to the library to get something new your students will love! Students will love getting to dig their hands into a pumpkin to count the seeds and see firsthand the parts of the pumpkin!
Here's What You'll Get:
Literacy Activities:
- Pumpkin Book Suggestion List
- 11 Graphic Organizers
- Author's Purpose Pumpkin Activity
- 8 Writing Prompts & 4 themed writing papers
Anchor Chart Essentials:
- Pictures and headers to help you make anchor charts for Life Cycles of Pumpkins, and Parts of a Pumpkin (Pumpkin Diagram)
- Life Cycle Posters
Other Pumpkin' Activities:
- Parts of a Pumpkin Labeling
- Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Craft
- Roll-A-Pumpkin Game
Pumpkin Crafts:
- Tissue Paper Pumpkin Template
- My Pumpkin Craft and Writing Paper
- Pumpkin' Facts Headband
Pumpkin Graphing:
- 3 half-page class opinion graphing sheets
- Pumpkin Food Taste-Test Graphing
- Taste Test Food Idea List
Pumpkin Investigation Booklet:
- Booklet Covers (boy/girl) with following pages:
- (2) Pumpkin Measurements (inches and centimeters versions)
- (2) Weight and Compare (compare with books and compare with other groups pumpkins pages)
- Sink of Float?
- Skip Count The Seeds
- Pumpkin-Cano
Grow-A-Pumpkin/Seed Investigation
- Directions
- Pumpkin Seed Investigation Booklet
Pumpkin Book Report
- Parent Letter
- Directions
- Rubrics (standards based, 100 point scale)
- Book Report Student Packet
This resource provides you with tons of activities all around the theme of pumpkins while also making sure that your students are learning. For the pumpkin investigation, students can work in small groups, each with their own pumpkin, or you can do one pumpkin as a class.
Students will love getting to dig into the pumpkin and get their hands dirty, not even realizing that they are learning at the same time! Students will get to practice grouping and skip counting by 10s, measuring using a measuring tape, weighing and comparing weight, and more!
Bring the learning home too with a pumpkin book report! Students read a favorite book and use a pumpkin to create a character from the book and complete the book report packet. This is always a student favorite!
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rachel V said "So many amazing resources in one pack! I originally bought this because of the life cycle of a pumpkin posters, but loved all the other activities too! This was perfect for our pumpkin week!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liz S said "I just found you as a seller and I think I already have about half of your store! I love your math centers and all of your resources so far! This punkin day resource was so much fun! My kids learned so much, enjoyed learning about pumpkins all week and had a blast!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heather C said "This really helped fill in the gaps of my pumpkin unit! All of the pages are practical and connect the fun activities to real learning. It's great!!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Katrina C said "My class had so much fun doing all the pumpkin related activities. Covers so many subjects and so much fun."
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