1. Life Cycle of a
Pumpkin

2. How do plants change as they grow?
Question Of
The Week…
How do plants change as they grow?

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Genre: Expository Text
Expository Text tells facts about a topic.

4. In the story this week we will look for facts about how a pumpkin grows.
Discuss with your shoulder partner what you think happens in the life cycle of a pumpkin.

6. Pumpkin Sight Words
fruit
soil
root
harvest
vine
bumpy
smooth

7. What do those words mean?
fruit- part of a plant that contains seeds
soil- top layer of Earth’s surface

8. What do those words mean?
root- part of the plant that takes in water and holds the plant in place
harvest- to gather crops

9. What do those words mean?
vine- a plant with a long, thin
stem
bumpy- covered with high spots or lumps
smooth- flat or even

10. What do those words mean?
vine- a plant with a long, thin
stem
bumpy- covered with high spots or lumps
smooth- flat or even

11. READ THE STORY!

12. 2 facts you learned about pumpkins.
Tell a partner…
2 facts you learned about pumpkins.
2 sentences to tell about the setting.

13. NOTES Notes are short sentences that can tell facts about a topic.
In your thinking journal write some notes about pumpkins.

15. Fact or Opinion Fact- A statement that can be proven true or false.
Opinion- A statement that cannot be proven true or false because it tells ideas and feelings.

16. Fact or Opinion
Game
Give students a white board. Display the sentences on the board. Students write fact or opinion.

17. Fact or Opinion
Pumpkins grow on vines.
FACT

18. Pumpkin pie is very yummy.
Fact or Opinion
Pumpkin pie is very yummy.
Opinion

19. Yellow flowers grow on the pumpkin vines.
Fact or Opinion
Yellow flowers grow on the pumpkin vines.
Fact

20. Orange pumpkins are my favorite.
Fact or Opinion
Orange pumpkins are my favorite.
Opinion

21. Pumpkins are usually shaped like a sphere (ball).
Fact or Opinion
Pumpkins are usually shaped like a sphere (ball).
Fact

22. Pumpkins are popular decorations during Halloween.
Fact or Opinion
Pumpkins are popular decorations during Halloween.
Fact

23. Jack-O-Laterns are scary.
Fact or Opinion
Jack-O-Laterns are scary.
Opinion

24. The tradition of Jack-O-Lanterns started in Ireland.
Fact or Opinion
The tradition of Jack-O-Lanterns started in Ireland.
Fact

25. SEQUENCING The order in which things happen in a story.
To retell the sequence of
a story, use words like
first, next, and last.

26. SEQUENCING
With your partner, write the sequence of the life cycle of a pumpkin.

27. These are not in order.
Use sequencing words.
green pumpkin
flower
seed
sprout
plant
orange pumpkin

28. FIRST
LAST
Next
THEN

29. Parts of a Pumpkin

30. 1. 4. 5. 2. 6. 3.