Pumpkin Lesson
1st Grade
(45 min.)
Book: Pumpkin Jack by: Will Hubbell
Learning Objectives:
- Make seasonal connection to plant life cycles
- Introduce vocabulary related to plant life cycles
- Connect themes of seasons, life cycles, and gardening to the children’s lives
- Obtain viable pumpkin seeds to plant next spring
Science vocabulary:
Life-cycle
Frost
Rot
Book vocabulary:
Fierce (intense, angry)
Jack-o’-lantern (pumpkin with a face)
Spell (magic)
Wrinkled [...]