How many seeds in a pumpkin?

Date: 18^th August 2014

Day: Monday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm      

Class: Pomegranate      

Theme: Yummy Food

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

How many seeds in a pumpkin?

I shared a book on pumpkin last Tuesday. Therefore, today, I brought in a small orange pumpkin for the children to observe.

Yee Shuen tried to hold the pumpkin to see how heavy it is.

The children passed the pumpkin around to observe it.

At the same time, I also shared another book – Peas! It’s not easy being Peas-y by Andy Cullen & Simon Rickerty. In this book, it introduces the process of a pea from seeds to our plate. The children could understand the process of the growing of the peas and how it was being processed in the factory.

I also brought in another book related to pumpkin – How many seeds in a pumpkin? By Margaret McNamara & G. Brian Karas. Charlie was one of the children in Mr Tiffin class, yet he doesn’t like lining before going to class as he was the shortest one. Mr Tiffin always asked the children to line up from the tallest to the shortest. One day, Mr Tiffin brought in three pumpkins with different sizes. Mr Tiffin wanted the children to make a guess of how many seeds would it be in the pumpkin. Therefore, Mr Tiffin guided the children in digging the pumpkin seeds. How many seeds would it be in each pumpkin? Will the biggest pumpkin has the most seeds? We shall disclose the answers after our taste activity on Wednesday.

I also asked the children to think of the numbers of seeds in the pumpkin we have in our class. The children gave me all sorts of answers from 2, 10, 20, 50, 100 etc.

The children were reminded that tomorrow would be our “Bitter Day”. I’m curious to know what kind of food that the children will bring.