2. Bring a sack lunch. No lunch boxes, thermoses or soda cans please!
3. Bring a plastic grocery bag for bringing home pumpkins.
4. We leave at 10:15 a.m. so arrive to school on time! Sonny Acres, here we come!
Here are some things you might talk about tonight or tomorrow morning to get our minds ready for the farm:
- What are the steps in the life cycle of a pumpkin? The steps in the process are: seed, sprout with seed leaves, plant with vine leaves, flower blossom, green pumpkin, orange pumpkin
- How do you know how big a pumpkin might grow? Compare and contrast different varieties: Look at it's seeds! The bigger the seed, the bigger the variety of pumpkin.
- How many days does it take a pumpkin to grow? 80-120 days
- How do you know it is ready to be picked? It feels hard on the outside and sounds hollow when it is tapped.
- How big was the biggest pumpkin ever grown? 1061 pounds! Grown in New York State in 1996.
- What connections can you make to text, self or world about pumpkins?
