My teaching partner had the great idea of having our students complete a literacy based pumpkin project. Our students decorated a pumpkin to represent one of their favorite book characters, and then they created a written presentation to describe the character traits of the character they chose. Our students turned in their pumpkins today, and their projects were amazing!
I think the best part of the whole project was seeing how excited my students were about school. They have been bubbling over with anticipation for the past two weeks and couldn’t wait to share their pumpkins with the class! Here are just a few of the pumpkins that were turned in. Do you recognize any book characters?
Here are Chicken Little and The Cat in the Hat
We also have Rusty from Warrior Cats and Geronimo Stilton.
Naturally, a toilet was one of my students’ favorites!
I love this Bad Case of Stripes pumpkin.
This Bad Kitty is too adorable!
Most of the written presentations were on poster board, so they’re hanging in the hallway, but this picture gives a good idea of how the pumpkin project tied into our reading unit.
Here are a few more project boards. We were so impressed with the amount of thought and text evidence students included in the written presentation!
If you’d like to see additional ways to incorporate Halloween into your instruction, be sure to check out this post!
