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Pumpkin Life-Cycle
Observation #2
10-17-19
Grade Kindergarten

Lesson date October 17th 2019

Lesson time 45 minutes - 1 hour

Objective(s) Students will participate in whole group discussions and activities

Students will actively participate in academic language building

using GLAD strategies → guided instruction, scouts, inquiry
charts, realia tables (reviewing from prior lesson), observation
charts, pictorial input charts, activity worksheet adding the
vocabulary (word focus of the day: cycle)

Students will be able to use real-life colors to make pumpkins

life-cycle

Students will be able to identify the parts of a pumpkin

Students will be able to sequence the life-cycle of a pumpkin (seed

→ pumpkin)

Standard(s) Common Core Standards:

- We can recognize and name parts of plants
- We can recognize and label a plants life-cycle
- We can identify the parts of a pumpkin
- We can actively participate in group and independent
instruction with purpose and understanding

California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP):

Standard 1.4​ → Using a variety of instructional strategies,
resources, and technologies to meet students’ diverse learning
needs
Standard 2.6​ → Employing classroom routines, procedures, norms,
and supports for positive behavior to ensure a climate in which all
students can learn

Accomodations Visuals with written words, guided practice (SMART board),

repetition, variety of learning modalities (kinesthetic, auditory, and
visual)

Materials - Inquiry charts

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- Realia table (pumpkin seeds, pulp, shell, pumpkin flesh,

pumpkin blossom, pumpkin vine, photo of pumpkin leaf)
- Pictorial input chart (pumpkin life cycle with labels?)
- Non-fiction books→ Pumpkin Circle (lesson opening) and
Pumpkin Jack (lesson closing)
- Sentence strips
- Scissors
- Glue
- Crayons
- Life-Cycle worksheet

Procedure (Steps) 1. Students will be seated on the carpet (whole class

instruction). Teacher will pick two scouts (these students
direct instruction, guided are looking for students who are being respectful learners
instruction, and and are also learning too!) Teacher will read aloud
independent practice Pumpkin Circle book
2. Teacher will review realia table with students and have
them say what each part of the pumpkin is (review from
prior lessons)
3. Students will create “Pumpkin Life-Cycle Chart” (whole
class/carpet)
4. Teacher will pick a number of students to help place the
labels where they belong on the chart (student
participation)
5. Students will be dismissed to their tables
6. Students will number and color the pictures→ guided
instruction
7. Students will put their materials away and teacher will
model cut and paste onto sentence strip to create the
life-cycle of a pumpkin
8. Students will independently cut and assemble their pieces
onto their sentence strip. Students can reference the
“Pumpkin Life-Cycle Chart” if needed during independent
practice. (During this time teacher will be monitoring
student work and be taking anecdotal notes. Teacher will
also be working with a small group of students who need
extra support, if necessary)
9. When students are done they can check their work and
label each step of the pumpkin cycle to extend their
learning. Students will also have the opportunity to tape
their sentence strip together so they can see how the cycle
keeps on going.

Closure After students are done with their Pumpkin Cycle they will return
to the carpet for a read aloud reviewing the pumpkin life-cycle →
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Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell

Assessment Formative:
- comprehension questions during read alouds
- anecdotal notes during independent practice (are students
putting the cycle in the correct sequence?)
Summative (for pumpkin unit):
- “I love pumpkins!” project → “a pumpkin is_____, a
pumpkin has_____, a pumpkin can be_____, I love
pumpkins!”

Rubric ✓1 Standard not met

✓2 approaching standard
★3 Met standard
★4 Exceeded standard → extended their learning (students who
finish early can add vocabulary words to their pumpkin life-cycle/
can make sight words sentences on the back of their work)

Next Steps “Let’s Find Out: Rotten Science”

- how a pumpkin completes its cycle, decomposes → seeds
sprout again

Reflection of Lesson

Positives

What I will change for

next time
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Anecdotal Record Sheet

Pumpkin Life-Cycle
Observation #2
10-17-19

Name Oral Participation Vocabulary Pumpkin Life-Cycle

(during whole class Acquisition→ Parts Activity-
instruction on of a Pumpkin/Life Independent
carpet?) Cycle Practice: sequence
of events in the
correct order (+),
some in correct
order (/), none in
correct order (X)

Diya

Julian

Noah

Parissa

Lucas

Medha

Nachiketa

SriVeda

Zackery

Riaan

Adam

Oliva

AnnaBelle

Isiah

Caleb

Audrey

Pratheek
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Arjun

Kayla

Vivaan

Kritika

Stephen

Arya

Arman