Description
A pumpkin farm to table unit for 1st and 2nd grade: nonfiction passages with questions, word work, writing, pumpkin science and real-world math.
Students learn how a pumpkin grows, how farmers harvest it and how it becomes pie, then test a pumpkin in water, graph class favorites and add prices in cents.
Black and white pages are print and go. Cut the cut and paste pieces and laminate the color cards (for reusable durability) for a center.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
43 pages, including:
→ How a Pumpkin Grows passage and questions
→ At the Pumpkin Patch passage and questions
→ From Pumpkin to Pie passage and questions
→ Pumpkin Words vocabulary match
→ Parts of a Pumpkin Plant label page
→ Pumpkin Life Cycle cut and paste with writing lines
→ From Seed to Pie (6 steps)
→ How to Make Pumpkin Pie how-to writing
→ Fruit or Vegetable? sort
→ Pumpkin Riddles, ABC Order and Compound Words at the Farm Stand
→ Pumpkin Scrambled Sentences and Pumpkin Word Hunt
→ Pumpkin Word Problems (to 100)
→ Solve and Color (sums and differences to 20)
→ Mystery Picture Hundred Chart
→ Pumpkin Seed Tens and Ones
→ Pumpkin Patch Stand menu math (cents)
→ Pumpkins We Picked picture graph and a class graph
→ My Pumpkin Investigation and Describe the Pumpkin (senses and adjectives)
→ Will a Pumpkin Sink or Float? experiment
→ Pumpkin Pie or Pumpkin Bread? opinion writing planner
→ How to Draw a Pumpkin directed drawing
→ Big Pumpkin Patch Maze
► 12 color vocabulary cards (plant, sprout, bloom, pollinate, harvest, bake, seed, vine, bee, green, ripe, pie)
► My Pumpkin Goals page and the Pumpkin Scientist award in black and white and color
► 2-page lesson guide with skills, materials, a suggested week, differentiation tips and an answer key
► Format: digital PDF download, US Letter 8.5 x 11 inches (on A4, choose Fit to Page). No physical product will be shipped.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
Short nonfiction passages with underlined vocabulary build comprehension without overwhelming young readers.
Pumpkin math feels real: students solve word problems, count seeds in tens and ones and add prices at the pumpkin stand.
Black and white pages are print and go for morning work, centers, homework or homeschool, and the color cards can be laminated.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ 1st grade classrooms
◆ 2nd grade classrooms
◆ Homeschool
◆ Literacy and math centers
◆ Morning work
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Reading comprehension with nonfiction passages
◆ Vocabulary, riddles, ABC order, compound words and sentence building
◆ Writing: how-to steps, describing words, opinion writing and a directed drawing
◆ Science: pumpkin plant parts, pollination, life cycle and sink or float
◆ Word problems to 100 with number sentences
◆ Addition and subtraction to 20, place value and the hundred chart
◆ Money: adding prices in cents
◆ Data: picture graphs and a class graph
TERMS
© Teacher Natalie - iLovePreK. For personal use only: classroom, childcare/daycare, and homeschool use with your own children or students. One purchase covers one teacher or one family. Please keep the file for your own home or classroom and do not post it online or share it. Teams of 5 or more teachers can write to [email protected] for a multi classroom coupon.
