Pumpkins - Day 3

Phonics/Writing

Preparation:

 

Materials

Paper with "Pumpkin," "stem," Leaf" printed  on it
Lined paper for writing
Teaching:

1.  Sound out each word with child and write, sound by sound on the writing paper, using best handwriting (I'll be posting video of how to teach handwriting this wek on youtube under the preschoolmommy, I'll add links later)

Reading

Preparation:

Create a book (see how to make a book from one piece of paper on my youtube video How to Make Mini Books)

Materials:

Book
Crayons

Teaching:

1. Read each page with your child, have them illustrate the text on the page.

Math

Preparation:

Seeds from Day 1 pumpkin, washed, and dry
Spinner with numbers 1-4 (I took apart a spinner from a board game, cut a circle from a piece of paper, divided it into fourths and wrote numbers on it.  I taped it to the table so the paper didn't slide around.)

Materials

Seeds
Spinner

Teaching:

To Play:

1. Child spins spinner and takes that number of seeds.
2. You spin spinner and take that number of seeds.
3. Take turns spinning.  When a person has a group of five seeds, they put them in a pile and lay them aside.
4. We played until one of us made it to ten piles (my son won!). You can play until all seeds are gone, or five piles.  You can change the numbers on your spinner and make piles of 3, or 4. 

To watch us play and get a better idea of how the game works watch my youtube video, Pumpkin Seed Game.

(Sorry about the youtube links but my videos have been  having a hard time uploading to this site)

Book of the Day:  The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King

1. Read the book to your child, talking about what you are learning as you read.

Science

Preparation:

Get out a recipe that uses pumpkin (or use my recipe for "allergy free cupcakes" - my son has allergies to wheat, egg, milk, peanut, tree nut, sesame, soy, fish, and shellfish)
Prepare ingredients

Materials

Recipe and ingredients
My recipe is:
Allergy Free Pumpkin Cupcakes
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
2 TBSP Coconut Oil
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Pumpkin
3 tsp Egg Replacer mixed with 4 TBSP Water (we use EnerG Egg Replacer)
1 cup Oat Flour (you can look for gluten free oat flour or Bob's Red Mill GLuten Free flour or Garbanzo Fava Bean flour)
1 1/2 tsp Xanthan Gum
1 1/1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
pinch Salt

1 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 tsp Nutmeg

1/4 tsp Cloves

1.  Combine sugar and oils.  Blend in pumpkin, vanilla and egg replacer.  Set aside.

2.  Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices.

3.  Pour dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture and blend.

Pour into muffin tin lined with cupcake liners and bake at 350 approximately 30 minutes, or until fork inserted in center comes clean ("Comes clean" with allergy free may mean you may have a small amount of fully cooked cupcake that sticks to your fork. Just make sure no glossy, uncooked batter is on your fork).

Teaching:

1.    Cook with your child.  You measure, they pour.  Let them stir. Count out what you are measuring.

2.  We made allergy free frosting and added some sprinkles, too.

 Art

Preparation
Materials

Orange ball from yesterday's art lesson
Black paint
Brown paint
Paintbrush
Empty toilet paper roll
Masking Tape or glue

Teaching:

1. Take a piece of masking tape and tape the toilet paper roll to the top of your papier mache ball.
2. Have child paint a jack-o-lantern face on pumpkin with black paint.
3. Have child paint stem brown.

Ta da!  A 3-dimensional art project perfect for decorating with =)