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Pumpkin Facts for Kids
With October just around the corner, let’s have some fun with these pumpkin facts for kids.
The simple facts that you will find below are a part of the Building Sentences: Pumpkin Facts resource.
First, let’s take a look at the facts. Then, I will share some fun, interactive, pumpkin facts worksheets kids love.
Pumpkin Facts for Kids
As early as preschool, kids form a natural interest in pumpkins. After all, us adults show them how to turn this amazing fruit into a spooky decoration for Halloween. How can they not be interested?
Typically in kindergarten and first grade, kids begin learning the life cycle of a pumpkin, and how to label the parts of a pumpkin.
These facts are simple and easy for young children to understand.
- Pumpkins grow on a vine.
- Pumpkins are a fruit
- Pumpkins have seeds.
- Most pumpkins are orange.
- Pumpkins can be white.
- You can carve a pumpkin
- Pumpkins can be big or small.
- You can eat pumpkin seeds.
- Pumpkins grow in 4 months.
- Pumpkins have a stem.
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Pumpkin Facts Worksheets
You and the kids are going to love these printable worksheets for building sentences all about pumpkins.
The Building Sentences reinforce emergent reading and writing skills mixed with non-fiction standards. For example, the worksheets allow practice for concepts of print, sight word recognition, writing, punctuation, and illustrating to represent sentences. Additionally, they are great as a supplemental resource for your non-fiction standards.
You can see a detailed example of how to complete the pumpkin facts worksheets in the video at the top of the post.
Students cut and past e word tiles to build sentences about pumpkins: one sentence on each page. When done, they draw an illustration and write the sentence.
To make differentiation a breeze, all Building Sentences resources comes with two levels.
At Level blackline worksheets include the sentence at the top of the page.
Above Level (shown above) blackline worksheets do not have the sentences printed. The students identify the word tiles, and put the words in order to make a sentence on their own.
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