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    Runaway Pumpkin Literature Sharing

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    This document provides lesson ideas for teaching about pumpkins and the book "Runaway Pumpkin" in three sentences or less: The document outlines reading, writing, math, and other activities such as drawing a giant pumpkin, writing pumpkin poems, estimating pumpkin weights, using pumpkin seeds for math problems, learning how pumpkins grow, and arts and crafts projects like pumpkin painting and bowling.

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    Ideas to use with the book, Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis

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    This document provides lesson ideas for teaching about pumpkins and the book "Runaway Pumpkin" in three sentences or less: The document outlines reading, writing, math, and other activities such as drawing a giant pumpkin, writing pumpkin poems, estimating pumpkin weights, using pumpkin seeds for math problems, learning how pumpkins grow, and arts and crafts projects like pumpkin painting and bowling.

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    Runaway Pumpkin Literature Sharing

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    This document provides lesson ideas for teaching about pumpkins and the book "Runaway Pumpkin" in three sentences or less: The document outlines reading, writing, math, and other activities such as drawing a giant pumpkin, writing pumpkin poems, estimating pumpkin weights, using pumpkin seeds for math problems, learning how pumpkins grow, and arts and crafts projects like pumpkin painting and bowling.

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    Literature Ideas

    Title: Runaway Pumpkin


    Author: Kevin Lewis
    Fiction or Nonfiction Fiction
    Theme: Pumpkins, Fall, Halloween, Farms
    Reading
    Phonics/Phonemic Awareness:
    ou as in round, ground
    ump as in bump, thump, pumpkin
    in as in pumpkin
    th as in thumpin
    rhyming

    Writing
    What would you think of if you saw a
    giant pumpkin? Draw a picture and
    add a thought bubble like the
    characters in the story.
    Write a pumpkin poem or song

    adjectives

    What is your favorite pumpkin


    flavored food?

    sight word tic-tac-toe on pumpkin


    cutout

    Adjective lesson using several sizes


    and shapes of pumpkins

    Word Identification:

    Comprehension/Vocabulary:

    Math

    Stop and predict what comes next


    Cause/effect retelling
    Visualizing

    Pumpkin Math
    1. Estimate and check the weight and
    circumference of a pumpkin

    Vocabulary - vine, cautious, foresaw

    2. Use pumpkin seeds to count, add,


    subtract, multiply, divide

    Fluency
    Read the chorus of the book with
    students
    Read the Runaway Pumpkin poem

    Social Sciences
    How do pumpkins grow - video and
    photos with a possible trip to a
    pumpkin patch and nonfiction
    literature
    Farms
    Pumpkin science experiments

    3. Use mini pumpkins and seeds to


    practice counting tens/ones for place
    value

    Other
    Pumpkin painting, art projects
    Pumpkin bowling

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