It has been a great week in Nursery (isn’t it always?). We have continued with our exploration of pumpkins left over from Halloween. We used these in our maths sessions to learn about comparative size; using language such as bigger than or smaller than and heavier and lighter. We also cut them open to see what was inside and used the seeds for a spot of subitising!
We watched a short video story of ‘Pumpkin Jack’. It is an American book that tells of a little boy who carved a pumpkin lantern for Halloween. He then put it in the garden and over time it began to rot down. Eventually, in the Spring, the seeds left inside began to sprout and new pumpkin plants and fruit grew, ready for the following Halloween.
Twenty days ago we put a left over carved pumpkin into a tightly sealed container (to keep us all safe) to watch what happens to the pumpkin over time. You can see by the current state of the pumpkin it is well and truly rotting down. The words used initially to describe the white bits were ‘snow’ and ‘fluffy’. Now the children are beginning to use words such as ‘mould’, ‘rot’ and ‘decompose’ with one child noticing this week that it had started to ‘melt’!
We shall keep you posted – we are curious to see if our ‘Pumpkin Jack’ begins to sprout new shoots! Watch this space.
