{"id":246,"date":"2020-10-07T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/?p=246"},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:11:36","slug":"fun-with-a-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/2020\/10\/07\/fun-with-a-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with a Pumpkin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If we were in the classroom right now we would be engaging with a pumpkin in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0I am not an advocate of wasting food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So below are many different ways to use the pumpkin\u00a0and make them valuable learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(hint: store your pumpkin in a cool place to prevent it from rotting)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Paint it.<\/strong> Use washable paints so that you can paint it many times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hammer it.<\/strong> \u00a0Help your little one pull them out and this becomes a never-ending activity!! \u00a0Caution do not leave the wooden golf tees in the pumpkin for more than one hour. \u00a0They swell making them difficult to pull out and reuse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/pumpkins-with-tees-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/pumpkins-with-tees-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/pumpkins-with-tees.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peg board.<\/strong> \u00a0Provide elastics and connect the pegs by stretching the elastics over them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-248 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/pumpkin-with-elastic-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/pumpkin-with-elastic-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/pumpkin-with-elastic.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Light it up.<\/strong>\u00a0Clean out the pumpkin and put a candle inside. No need to carve a design in the pumpkin as the golf tee holes have already done the job!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pumpkin goo<\/strong>. Investigate on a tray with your child what is inside a pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roast pumpkin seeds.<\/strong> Pumpkin seeds can be roasted and are a yummy fall treat!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we were in the classroom right now we would be engaging with a pumpkin in a variety of ways. \u00a0I am not an advocate of wasting food. So below are many different ways to use the pumpkin\u00a0and make them valuable learning opportunities. (hint: store your pumpkin in a cool place to prevent it from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}