Our class spent a number of days exploring the squash that my aunt so kindly grew for us!
Day 1: Describe your squash to the class
Connor: it’s yellow right here and there’s a big pointy
and there’s a hook and green holding on
Cedar: on here is kinda green and kind of yellow in the
cracks and it’s kinda in right here
Mathew: there’s a hook and a green thing at the bottom
Nara: Mine has parts of green and yellow parts
Taylor: mine is yellow and green and white and it has
green on the stem and it has a little hook
Samuel: my pumpkin is orange and green and it has a
little hook
Trenton: my stem fell off. Green and yellow.
Ethan: mine has brown on it
Beau: there’s orange on this side and yellow on the other
side
Trent: mine has yellow on it
Phoebe: mine has green on this side and yellow on this
side
Skylar: mine is bumpy
Ozzy: Mine is squishy
Zoe: mine’s mixed with green and yellow
Jennifer: my pumpkin has a little bit of orange in the
middle
Tinneke: mine has yellow and green mixed
Easton: mine is hard and it’s bumpy
Liam: mine has yellow and green and it has a stem and it
has white
How is it the same as a pumpkin?
Zoe: they both have a little yellow and green on them
Skylar: it has a stem
Easton: it has green on the stem
Phoebe: they can roll
Taylor: it’s bumpy and it has the same shape
How is it different?
Jennifer: it’s because the stem is different because it
broke
Mathew: This has yellow and a hook
Nara: there’s bits of green
Taylor: because it’s not orange
Zoe: they have smaller bumps than a pumpkin
Trenton: pumpkin is bigger
Ethan: pumpkins don’t have green on them
Ozzy: A pumpkin has three sets: bright orange at the end,
green at the beginning, and then yellow
Taylor: when it’s green, hat means it needs to grow a
little more
Ozzy: frost kills everything, that’s why you have to
harvest everything before frost
Cedar: I growed some gourds in the same garden we growed
some pumpkins and squash
What are you still wondering about the squash?
Tinneke: I want to know if there’s green inside
Taylor: I want to know if theres the same seeds inside as
a pumpkin
Easton: I want to know if it’s orange like a pumpkin
inside?
Nara: if there’s yellow inside
Cedar: if it’s white inside
Beau: who made the marks on my pumpkin?
Day 2: Compare a squash with your partner and discuss similarities and differences
Taylor/Tinneke: a little bit of green and orange/mine is bigger
Jennifer/Zoe: both got a stem/mine has green and Jennifer’s doesn’t
Easton/Liam: mine has white and his does/both have hooks/he doesn’t have a small thing like mine (bottom)
Cedar/Trenton: we both don’t have stems/more green than Cedar’s
Mathew/Kane: we both got hooks/Mathew’s small mine big
Beau/Ozzy: both don’t have stems/pretty much the same-mine is really circly and Beau’s is really not that circly
Phoebe/Nara: both have stems/Phoebe has less yellow
Trent/Connor: both have green/he doesn’t have much green like me and I have more green and more orange
Dustin/Ethan/Samuel: we all have stems/we all have yellow/one is medium one is small one is big
Skylar/Marlee: Skylar- we both have stems/I have less green than Skylar
Day 3: We examined and compared the insides of a pumpkin, a spaghetti squash, and a regular squash. We removed the 'guts' and roasted the seeds, which were really yummy!
Day 4: We selected a squash that we liked most, and drew a detailed drawing of the squash. We were then able to take the squash home!
