Taking a Closer Look At Squash

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!