Pumpkin Exploration

We had a great day yesterday exploring pumpkins as scientist all afternoon. We measured girth, weight, and height, but first we had to make predictions. We found many ways to sort and classify pumpkins. Our pumpkins were also sequenced by size and weight. We all took part in the tradition of scooping out the pulp, voting on a face, and counting the seeds. The biggest pumpkin had fewer seeds than the medium- sized pumpkin. What a shock! Our super parent volunteers made pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, and toasted pumpkin seeds for us to taste. Yummy! Now all that is left to do is see who predicted correctly which pumpkin would last the longest. Last year's pumpkin didn't start to mold until mid-April. Do you think this year's pumpkins will last as long? We will just have to keep observing like a science (hopefully our eyes will tell us it is time to toss them before our noses do.)