October (Grades K-2)
Pumpkins
How many different ways can you measure a pumpkin?
Can you measure it 5 different ways? Choose a type of measurement, find the correct measuring tool, and record your solution.
Compare your results to 5 other students.
Whose pumpkin is the largest?
Create an award for each of the five pumpkins.
Order your results.
Graph your results.
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A pumpkin farmer wants to sort his pumpkins to help people visiting his farm pick the pumpkin they want. What are different ways that a farmer can sort his pumpkins? Explain your thinking.
Halloween
There are 31 days in the month of October. Is 31 an odd or even number? Explain your thinking using a visual.
On Halloween night, Ben passed out candy to 10 trick-or-treaters. He noticed a strange pattern. The first trick-or-treater dressed as a ghost. The second dressed as a cat, and the third trick-or-treater dressed as a witch. This pattern then repeated as the fourth trick-or-treater dressed as a ghost, and so on. Draw the pattern of costumes Ben saw on Halloween. What was the sixth trick-or-treater dressed as? The seventh trick-or-treater? The tenth?
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There were 10 Halloween bats in the air. 4 stopped to rest in the spooky tree. How many were still in the air? Show how you know.
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Maya and Jeff went trick-or-treating. They were hoping to visit all 60 houses in their neighborhood. If it takes 3 minutes to visit each house and then 2 minutes walking in between houses, how long will it take them to trick-or-treat this year? Explain your solution.
Stars
Jessica looked out her window and made her wish, "Star light, star bright first star I see tonight, grant me this wish tonight." She noticed 3 very bright stars that could be connected to form a triangle. Draw a picture of how the stars Jessica wished upon might have looked.
