Pumpkin Time!

This week we are reading about pumpkins for an informational writing piece.  The kids worked in groups to create a group web of pumpkin facts.  We also had some fun with little baby pumpkins.  I have always carved a big pumpkin and used the little baby ones for decoration but I decided I wanted to see what was inside of those little pumpkins.  I had the kids make a prediction:  How many seeds are inside this little pumpkin?  We had guesses from 10-60.  ( A few said 100, but changed their mind).
The kids had fun cleaning out the pulp and seeds.  We had two little pumpkins.  One had 158 seeds and the other had 123 seeds!!!  I couldn't believe it.  I had some great helpers put those seeds in piles of 10 to help me count.