Pumpkin Carving

Today I was able to go to school and help in a pumpkin carving activity in Caleb's 2nd grade class. I was so fun. His teacher is amazing. He doesn't yell but he talks in a was that the kids know he means business. It is quite amazing to watch. We had about 27 kids and 23 pumpkins. They had to estimate the height, weight, circumference, amount of lines on the outside, color on the inside and number of seeds. Then of course we went through these exercises to find out how close the kids were. Caleb's pumpkin was 10in. tall, 13.4lbs, 28in. circumference, 21 lines, light orange and 388 seeds. Counting the seeds was the worst part. Each kids drew the faces and the carving began. A parent took pictures of the whole class and each individual kid. A lucky parent took the seeds home to bake for a snack on Friday. It was a great fun filled activity. I could not of expected that it would turn out so good. Caleb didn't even mind that I was there.