From Garden to Table

Last week we harvested some sweet potatoes and today we got to eat them.  Many of the potatoes we dug up were purple and so... the sweet potato pie was PURPLE!  It tasted great!

Harvesting Sweet Potatoes

Getting ready to clear the vines.

Pulling up vines and putting them in the compost pile.

Digging for potatoes.

Showing off our prizes.

About 15 pounds of potatoes!

Pumpkin Math

On the last day of October we carved six pumpkins. Yes, we did carve faces into them and yes, we did use candles to light them up but our lesson was much more interesting than just that. First we did some estimating. How heavy was our pumpkin? How many seeds did it hold? What was the circumference? Then we actually measured to find the answers to our questions. After writing our conclusions, we carved faces and lit them up.

Estimating

Scooping seeds out

Sorting the seeds

Finished project