Teaching Elementary Reading, Writing & Math With Pumpkins

In this episode of The Firstieland Podcast for Elementary Teachers, your host Molly Schwab shares how to bring the magic of pumpkins into your classroom to teach reading, writing, math, grammar, and science. Using picture books and simple hands-on activities, you’ll see how pumpkins can help you fit in fun without sacrificing standards.

You’ll learn:

✔️ How to use Spookley the Square Pumpkin to teach reading comprehension and story elements

✔️ A fun way to connect pumpkins to math through shapes, measuring, and graphing

✔️ How to use nonfiction books to support procedural writing and life cycle lessons

✔️ Easy grammar activities with real pumpkins to teach adjectives and descriptive language

✔️ Simple science investigations like sink-or-float and labeling pumpkin parts

By the end of this episode, you’ll have cross-curricular pumpkin ideas that make learning meaningful and bring back a little joy to your classroom this fall.

Mentioned In This Episode

• Pumpkin Unit - https://firstieland.com/pumpkin-unit
• October Read Aloud Bundle - https://firstieland.com/october-read-alouds
• Spookley the Square Pumpkin - https://amzn.to/3HWniWq
• Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington - https://amzn.to/4g2mvAc
• The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons - https://amzn.to/45CR0ZS

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