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Pumpkin Theme Unit

Jo - Monday, September 29, 2008, 10:08 pm
Categories: Holidays, Homeschooling, Lesson Plans, Reading, Science, Writing
Tags: craft, fun, Halloween, October, pumpkin, Reading, recipes, Science, Web site, Writing

My son is going to make a pumpkin-shaped book with the following “chapters”:

Fun pumpkin facts
Pumpkin reading and comprehension
Pumpkin creative writing (with child-drawn pictures)
Pumpkin recipes
Pumpkin arts/crafts (child-made)

The following Web sites will be used:

Child-Made Pumpkin Fact Books
Wanted…Someone is Stealing all of the Pumpkins!
Farm Bureau Kids: Pumpkin Fun Facts
Halloween Online: Unusual Pumpkin Facts
Halloween Online: Pumpkin Recipes
Merced County Office of Education: Pumpkins (PDF file) (I love this Web site…it has info on pumpkins plus all kinds of neat ideas!)
Kids’ Turn Central: 101 Things to do with a Pumpkin

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