Description
Watch a seed become a pumpkin with this hands-on fall science unit for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten, ages 3 to 6. Children meet Patch the Pumpkin Seed in a read-aloud story, follow the seed, sprout, vine, flower and pumpkin stages, then sequence, count and label them on cut and paste pumpkin worksheets.
A 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day and a Pumpkin Buddy craft give you a complete pumpkin week for the classroom, homeschool or daycare. No prep fall activities and easy prep crafts save you prep time.
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This unit is part of the Life Cycles Mega Bundle, 12 science units for the whole year. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
► You will get 60+ pages, including: ⤵
▴ Preschool & Pre-K and kindergarten black and white worksheets: ⤵
→ Pumpkin Life Cycle, cut and paste (5 stages)
→ Pumpkin Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Pumpkin
→ Count the Seeds
→ Help the Bee
→ Small to Big
→ Sink or Float?
→ My Pumpkin
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Patch the Pumpkin Seed, a read-aloud story in color
▴ Wall life cycle poster to build with the class
▴ Mini poster, flash cards and a chant
▴ My Pumpkin Life Cycle Book (emergent reader)
▴ Pattern coloring pages
▴ Pumpkin Buddy craft
▴ Pumpkin Patch Stand for pretend play
▴ Headband and certificate
► Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
The story keeps the science true: the root grows down while the sprout pushes up, the long vine holds on with curly tendrils, bees carry pollen between the big yellow flowers, and a tiny green pumpkin grows where a flower was until it turns orange with a hard rind and seeds inside.
A 3 stage cut and paste lets younger children join the same lesson with a smaller step.
Bold lines, large pictures and short directions make every page easy to read, including for children who use visual supports.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool fall science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science and learning centers
◆ Pumpkin, harvest and fall theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the stages of the pumpkin life cycle
◆ Science vocabulary: seed, sprout, vine, pollen, pulp
◆ Counting seeds to 7 and ordering pumpkins from small to big
◆ Predicting and testing with Sink or Float?
◆ Cutting, gluing, tracing and coloring for fine motor strength
◆ Oral language and retelling through the story, chant and pretend play
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE MEGA BUNDLE
Teach a new life cycle every season with all 12 units in one download: pumpkin, apple, turkey, penguin, robin, plant, butterfly, frog, chicken, ladybug, bee and sea turtle. CLICK HERE to see everything inside the Life Cycles Mega Bundle and save big.
TERMS
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