october 2024
All about pumpkins!
This morning the children arrived at preschool to see a table full of pumpkins of all shapes and sizes! This caught the children's attention and throughout the day they explored the different shapes, textures, colours, sizes and weight of these pumpkins.
Here are some of the children's quotes:
“These are pumpkins!” -B
“This a yellow pumpkin” -C
“And a green one” -B
“These little pumpkins are holding the big one. Look at this, it's a mountain of pumpkins!” -B
“I got two pumpkins” -Bl
“These two pumpkins match” -B
“I got a big one” -Bl
“I got a little one” -S
“I found yellow!” -C
“This one looks like chicken” -Bl
“They are slippery” -B
“I got orange and white” -K
“This ones a squish squash” -B
“I made a snowman” -K
“What's inside the pumpkin? I think its orange and yellow inside” -B
“A watermelon” -K
“A baby” -H
As we observed the children exploring all these pumpkins we noticed some of the children counting them, some children were trying to balance and stack the pumpkins and some of the children brought the pumpkins into their dramatic play in the house centre. We also noticed children comparing the different shapes and sizes as well as their colours. The children were trying to find pumpkins that matched and pumpkins that were different. B’s question: “What's inside the pumpkin?” sparked lots of questions and conversations. The next morning the children arrived at daycare to see that our pumpkin had been cut in half! This took some of the children by surprise, C began talking about fixing the pumpkin. Some of the children wondered how the pumpkin opened and others went right into exploring the inside of the pumpkin with their hands. Here are some of the children's quotes from today:
“It just broke!” -C
“It broke” -M
“Its broken” -Bl
“I think there's nuts in it” -B
“There's a baby in that big pumpkin” -Ho
“It's really wet” -B
“We can touch it. I'm pulling a seed out B, like you did!” -M
“Because we have strong hands to pull it out” -B
“It feels like cold.. It smells pretty yummy.. Yucky seeds.” -H
“There's seeds in there… put them in the garden… I have a pumpkin at my home” -S
“Miranda cut a pumpkin in half… woah seeds in there!” -H
“How do we get in this little pumpkin? -Ho
“I think it is heavy a lot… its sticky” -H
“Its stringy” -S
“There's spiderwebs in there”- K
“Look at the seeds they are sticking to me” -M
“It's sticky and slimy and it's going to be a face. You gotta make eyes, nose, shoulders, toes, knees and back.” -L
Miranda Lange RECE, Alesha Spirka RECE
