How to: Carve a Pumpkin

Date:

Title of the Lesson: How To Carve a Pumpkin

Curriculum Area: Writing: Organizing Ideas & Form

Unit of Study: Literacy

Background Information:

Grouping:

Learning Expectations:

Assessment:
- students answer
questions/ discuss with
partner
-students fill out How To
WS

- what a pumpkin is, what it looks like, what holiday we use it in Canada
-meaning of First, Then, Next, Last
WRITING:
Organizing Ideas 1.5 identify and order main ideas and supporting details,
using graphic organizers and organizational patterns (Gr 1&2)
Form 2.1 write short texts using a few simple forms (How to books
identifying the steps in a procedure) (Gr1 & 2)

WholeClass
Individual

Lesson:

Mental Set

- Mental Set: Read a book about pumpkins

Ask pumpkin comprehension questions (what color is it? What size? Color?)
Ask students to retell (using vocabulary of first, then, next, last)

Objectives
Input

Sharing the Purpose/

- Bring out the class pumpkin, have the class brainstorm facts they know about
pumpkins with their partner, then have volunteers tell you ideas to write on chart
paper
A pumpkin is orange. A pumpkin grows in the ground. It has a stem because
it comes from a vine. The pumpkin is smooth.
What does it look like? Feel like (texture)? Smell like?
- Brainstorm where they have seen How to instructions in their experience
When you buy an appliance, fridge, stove
Toy instructions, board game instructions
Recipes, cook books
- Brainstorm How to: Carve a Pumpkin (collaborate, then use this as model)
- have volunteers draw a picture to go with each instruction on chart paper
1. Cut out the stem
2. Scoop out the pumpkin
3. Draw the face
4. Carve the pumpkinnow its a jack-o-lantern!
- Go through the steps & carve the pumpkin as a class
students take turns removing the insides of the pumpkin while doing WS
- Students use the template provided to write their own How to: Carve a Pumpkin &
draw a picture of their carved pumpkin at the bottom
Bloom's Taxonomy:
Knowledge
Understanding
Application
Analysis
Synthesis

Multiple Intelligences:
Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Spatial
Musical
Bodily/Kinesthetic

Modeling
Check for Understanding
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Closure

Materials/Resources:

pumpkinbook
chartpaper
pumpkin&carving
supplies
HowToWS
writingutensils

 Evaluation

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal
Naturalistic

Accommodations/Modifications:
- allow students to come look at the chart paper if they have trouble spelling words
- walk around & help students sound out words, encourage them to ask their elbow partner for help
- if having trouble, students can write the short form of tasks ( eg. carve rather than carve the pumpkin)