Day 1

• Read From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer.
• Put a sticker, drawing, or picture of a pumpkin on your "My Science Journey Poster."
• Discuss the reading with your child.
• Discuss how a pumpkin is really a fruit and not a vegetable. (See information at back of book.)
• Decide if you will plant a pumpkin seed or harvest a pumpkin or two.  It all depends on the time of year you work through this book.  I recommend October, and then save some seeds to plant the next spring.  You might enjoy going to a pumpkin farm to choose the best pumpkin.

Day 2

Be creative.... (choose one or more suggestion)

• Color a picture of a pumpkin.
• Draw a picture.... I suggest Draw Write Now Book 2... you could definitely draw a pumpkin, or some other autumn harvest items.
• Carve a jack-o-lantern. (You may want to wait until after day 4, so you can choose your pumpkin first... or switch Day 2 and Day 4 activities for this lesson plan.)

Day 3

Read more... (choose 1 - 3 more books on the topic)

• From Seed to Pumpkin by Jan Kottke
• Grow a Pumpkin Pie by Jane E. Gerver
• Pumpkins by Ann L. Burckhardt
• The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons
• In Search of the Perfect Pumpkin by Gloria Evangelista
• In a Pumpkin Shell by Jennifer Storey Gillis
• Kids' Pumpkin Projects by Deanna F. Cook
• Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson

Day 4

Experiments, Activities, and/or Field Trips

• Plant your pumpkin seeds or go and choose a pumpkin from your garden, a store, or farm.
• "Roasted Pumpkin Seeds" - see suggestion in From Seed to Pumpkin
• "How Plants Drink Water" - see suggestion in From Seed to Pumpkin
• Bake pumpkin pie or pumpkin cookies.
• Websites:
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/pumpkin.shtml
• http://www.sadako.com/pumpkin/growing.html
• http://www.pumpkin-patch.com/
• http://www.kinderkorner.com/pumpkinpatch.html

Day 5

• Review - look through the books you read and discuss what you learned.
• Fill in "My Science Journey Journal" page.

• autumn
• gardens
• vegetables and/or fruit
• Thanksgiving
• harvest
• Halloween
• seeds
• farms
• cooking