Kolb EDUC 461 Fall 2014

Short Range Learning Objectives/Standards for Unit

Kindergarten- Fall/Pumpkins
The unit Pumpkins will be based on the season of Fall. Pumpkins grow and change in the
fall and are used for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Students will be learning about the basic
needs of pumpkins, the growing changes or life cycle of a pumpkin, using describing words
for pumpkins, reading about pumpkins (fiction and nonfiction), experimenting with pumpkins,
and using math skills with pumpkins such as counting lines on the pumpkin, and measuring
them with manipulatives.
These activities will let the students explore as well as integrate all basic subjects together and
use many assessments such as turn and talk partners, recording predictions, writing journals,
and using manipulatives for a real life object.
ELA:
Unit Objectives
Students will
demonstrate what
they know about
pumpkins and
what they want to
know about
pumpkins.
K.S.L.5 Add draws
or visual displays to
descriptions as
desired to provide
additional details.
K.R.L.5 Recognize
common types of
texts (non-fiction)
K.W.7 Participate in
shared research and
writing
K.R.I.1 With
prompting and
support, ask and
answer questions
about key details in

Activities/Instructional
Strategies
Listening activity
Growing Pumpkins
and look at powerpoint
How Does a Pumpkin
Grow

Whole group instruction

Look at the Book

From Seed to Pumpkin
(nonfiction)

Assessment of
Objective
Create a K-W-L about
Pumpkins

Accommodations/
Adaptions
Extended time if
needed
Visual
Representation of
a pumpkin with
students

a text.
Students will
analyze pumpkins
with describing
words (adjectives).

Students will paint white Students will write in

bags of different sizes
their journals about
for pumpkins.
their pumpkins that
they painted.
K.L.5b. Demonstrate Read the story of
understanding of
Spookley the Square
Create a chart about
frequently occurring Pumpkin
pumpkins and
verbs and adjectives
describing them
by relating them to
their opposites.

Extended time on
assignment
Will use yellow
paper strips for the
students to write
about their
pumpkin.

K.S.L.5 Add draws

or visual displays to
descriptions as
desired to provide
additional details.
K.R.I.1 With
prompting and
support, ask and
answer questions
about key details in
a text.

Students will
continue to
demonstrate
describing words
or adjectives with
their pumpkins.

Reread story of
Spookley the Squared
Pumpkin
Make nontraditional
shapes of pumpkins

K.W.2. Use a
combination of
drawing, dictating,
Relate the pumpkins
and writing, to
back to the story.
compose
informative/explanat
ory text connected to
a topic.
K.R.L With

Students will write

something about their
nontraditional
pumpkins.
Students will use some
describing words for
their journal writing.

Students will have

yellow paper
stripes to help
copy or spell a
word.

prompting and
support identify
characters, setting,
and major events in
a story (sequence
events)
K.R.I.1 With
prompting and
support, ask and
answer questions
about key details in
a text.

RONALD
MACDON
ALD
SHOW!
Students will
complete the K-WL chart of
pumpkins.
K.R.L With
prompting and
support compare and
contrast the
adventures and
experiences of
characters in
familiar stories.
K.R.I.7 With
prompting and
support, describe the
relationship between
the illustrations and
the text in which
they appear.

Read the book or listen

to it on YouTube Too
Many Pumpkins
Talk about treats and
things made from
pumpkins
Use turn and talk after
story

Complete K-W-L
chart from the
beginning of the week
and have students talk
about things they have
learned about
pumpkins.

Provide pictures
and visual
representations of
the facts on the
chart
Look at our big
pumpkin and talk
about what they
know just by
looking at it