Seeds, seeds, seeds

Sunflower seeds for the birds

investigating the inside of the pumpkin

Mrs. Van was reading us a very riveting book during our collaborative time.

after the story, we wrote and illustrated our own stories about water

marble painting is just really fun!

Last week, we thoroughly  invested the sunflowers we had in the room.  We used tweezers to pull the seeds out, we looked at them with magnifying glasses and then this week, we put the seeds in the garden for the birds to enjoy.  Maybe we'll even get a new sunflower in the garden for next fall!

The pumpkins from the pumpkin patch also gave us many opportunities for math activities.  We estimated how many seeds we thought might be in our pumpkin, then we all took a turn counting the seeds and then we added all our counts together for a final seed count.  For the record, there were 210 seeds in the pumpkin.  Two of our friends estimated 200!  They were very close.