Cumulative+Assessment

** Cumulative Assessment ** ** Pumpkins ** 1. You and your family are somewhere picking pumpkins to take home and decorate for Halloween. Where is a place that you and your family may be? Where can people pick pumpkins? People pick pumpkins at. 2. Think back to the story we read in Social Studies called “//The Pumpkin Book//.” It is sitting on the table at the front of the room if you want to remember what it looks like. We learned many facts about pumpkins. Why have pumpkins been important in history, in the //past//? 3. Below are three pictures. Each picture shows a pumpkin at a different stage in its //life cycle//. Number the pictures 1-3, with 1 being the youngest pumpkin and 3 being the oldest. Then, list at least one word under each picture that describes the pumpkin at it’s stage of the life cycle. _   _ _ 4. Because you and your family want to take your pumpkin home to carve at which stage of the life cycle would you want it to be at and why? 5. Think back to our pumpkin patch word wall. Write a sentence describing what your trip to get a pumpkin with you family would be like. You can describe the pumpkins, the pumpkin patch, what the weather may be life when your there, or other things you may do or see while getting your pumpkin. Don’t forget to use capitols and end punctuation! 6. When you reach this question come up to my desk and get a plate full of pumpkin seeds. First, I will show them to you and I will ask you to make an //estimate// of how many pumpkin seeds are on the plate. I will write down this number on a sticky and give it to you. Take the plate and sticky back to your desk. Count up the actual number of seeds. Then answer the following question: Was your estimate greater than, less than or equal to the actual number of pumpkin seeds? First write a sentence using words to answer this question. Then write a number sentence using the two numbers and a greater than, less than, or equal to sign. Word Sentence: Number Sentence:
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