October 24-28, was our Pumpkin Week. The saturday before the week began, we took our annual trip to the pumpkin patch, and each got our own pumpkin. So, during the week we talked about pumpkins, and on Thursday we did our pumpkin experiment!
First, we each made a hypothesis about how much we thought the small pumpkin would weigh. (Truth be told, we used Lyric's pumpkin for the experiments, I figured she would not notice, and she still has not asked about it almost a week later, so I think we are in the clear) So, we made our guesses, and Kellen guess 1.5 pounds. He got it exactly!
Next was the circumference. We each made our guesses, I don't think that anyone of us was close.
Next we guessed how many seeds our small pumpkin would have inside. This dude was small! So I guessed about 20. I think Abbi said something like 15. And Kellen's first guess was 200, until we convinced him that was crazy and he knocked it down to 50. Well, our little pumpkin (OK! Lyric's little pumpkin) had 312 seeds! We toasted those things up with cinnamon and sugar and then baked the rest of the pumpkin. We used some of him in our traditional Saturday Morning Waffles. Lyric's little pumpkin was delicious. :)
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