Painted Pumpkins!

We have a pumpkin in our classroom!  On Friday we talked about its shape and physical characteristics and then we drew it on a large piece of paper with black crayon.  We then began painting.  We painted one section at a time using YELLOW PAINT.  Then we dipped our brushes into red paint and added it to the yellow and...presto change-o, it turned orange: very exciting!  This is our new display in the hallway.

This week we have been learning about the life cycle of the pumpkin.  We have read books and have discovered that not all pumpkins begin green and turn orange but can be white and other variations.  We will have our life cycle sequencing work on display soon in our classroom.

Next week we hope to go to one of our local pumpkin patches to learn more about pumpkins and see some other "living things".  Stay tuned for more about the differences between living and non-living things and more art that has to do with mixing colours.  We are also creating paintings during Centres time and hope to have many on display soon.