• Shape Mats: Practice building shapes with dough
• Count and Move: Pick a card and count the pumpkins. Then complete the given gross motor skill that many times. Example: Jump 4 times, Touch your toes 7 times.
• Color Match: Pick a pumpkin and match it to your board
• Counting Acorns: Look at the number and count the counters in the ten-frame. Fill the ten frame with that number
• Emotions: Work on identifying emotions, making facial expressions to represent emotions, and discussing emotions
• Bat Mats: Work on fine motor skills by tracing a variety of lines
• Positional Pumpkins: Practice positional words with this pumpkin board
• Letter Sound Coloring: Identify common fall-themed images and the sound they make.
• Sunflower Letters: Practice uppercase letters with these traceable cards
• Bag of Letters: Practice lowercase letters with these clip cards

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• Shape Mats: Practice building shapes with dough
• Shape Cards: Pick a 2D shape card and match it to the pumpkin shape card
• Counting Pumpkin Clip Cards: Count the pumpkins (1-10) on each card and use a clothespin to clip the answer
• Pumpkin Number ID: Match the numbers from the card to the board
• More or Less: Children use manipulatives to represent “more” or “less” depending on the seed card they pick
• Pumpkin Patterns: Complete the AB, ABB, and ABC patterns
• Seed Counting: Pull a handful of seeds and count them out
• Measurement Mats: Use cubes and links to measure the height and width of a pumpkin
• Fine Motor Tracing Cards: Practice pencil grip and fine motor skills with these tracing cards. Trace a variety of straight, curved, and swirly lines
• Pumpkin Vocabulary: Become familiar with key pumpkin vocabulary by tracing the words
• Alphabet Puzzles: Complete the pumpkin puzzles by matching the uppercase and lowercase letters
• Pumpkin Pie Rhymes: Put each slice of pumpkin pie on the correct plate by matching up the rhyming images
• Feed the Pumpkin: Sort the images by syllables and feed them to the correct pumpkin
• Letter Sound Boards: Place the pumpkin card with the correct beginning sound next to each image
• Uppercase Lowercase Sort: Sort the letters by uppercase and lowercase letters
• Roll and Draw: Roll the die and follow the directions for drawing a jack-o-lantern
• Pumpkin Investigation Book: Create a take-home book where you explore and investigate your pumpkin. Record your observations inside of your book
• Pumpkin Emotion Writing Paper: Look at the pumpkin’s face and illustrate/write about a time you have felt the same way

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• A non-fiction PowerPoint presentation about pumpkins to help students gain background knowledge
• Matching student book for them to color and keep
• Hands on true and false sort based on the information learned from the PowerPoint
• Teacher support with questions before, during and after reading
• Vocabulary support
• Exploration activity with differentiated writing papers: Compare and contrast the outside of a pumpkin and a squash, predict what the inside will be, document findings
• Rhyming center
• Emotion flash cards
• Emotion writing with differentiated writing paper for 12 different emotions
• Sequencing with characters
• Imaginative writing
• Craft with tracing materials

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