We have been getting into the spirit of Halloween by doing lots of activities with pumpkins.

We made these pumpkins in art. We cut out pumpkin shapes and then sponge painted them with a mixture of red, yellow and orange paint. Then we made eyes, noses and mouths and glued them on.

They are on display in the entrance hall at school. We think they look great. Have a look if you are visiting us.

Today we did lots of maths activities to do with pumpkins. First we made some pumpkin glyphs.

This glyph shows that this superstar is 6 year old girl with fair hair, who has a sister and whose favourite subject at school is art.

Then we did some pumpkin symmetry.

Next, we looked at the giant pumpkin we have in the Halloween corner in our class. Mrs Stewart asked us to look at the pumpkin and estimate how long a piece of string we would need to go around the pumpkin. We had to come out and cut a piece of string to show our estimate. We are going to check our estimations tomorrow.

Finally, we tried to estimate the numbeer of seeds that will be in the pumpkin when we cut it open later in the week.

Here is our pumpkin maths wall almost finished…

Phew!!!