Literacy, Art, and Shapes - Oh My!

As you may recall, we recently read the book The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Toriano. At the end of the story, the farmer finds that Spookley was an unusually special pumpkin who not only saved his pumpkin patch, but was a new wonderful shape - square! The farm then decides to plant Spookley's seeds the next year and ends up with a pumpkin patch that is nothing short of amazing with many different shaped and colored pumpkins from triangular pumpkins to rainbow colored pumpkins. (CCSS RL.K.10) To practice identifying our shapes, we chose one shape to trace and create our own special Spookley pumpkin (CCSS K.G.A.2, K.G.A.3) and identified our shape by writing the correct shape word on our papers. 

Students chose their shapes!

And were asked to write the shape word on their paper that says "My pumpkin is a ______"

The best part of our activity? Using oil pastels to color and decorate our pumpkins!

The students had so much fun decorating their pumpkin shapes in all different ways.

Here are some of our finished products!

Here is our pumpkin patch! The students did amazing work!