Pumpkin Week

Pumpkin Week wasn't much of a school week, but I want to write a post about it just to keep the records up to date. My suspicions were confirmed -- a holiday disrupts one's teaching schedule. But not necessarily in a bad way.

The week began early, on Saturday, when we went to the local "pumpkin patch" in town -- a church parking lot -- and chose SEVEN pumpkins. Three were tiny ones that we didn't carve. Our main activity for the first part of the week was carving the other four pumpkins. The days after Halloween we kind of took it easy.

One day we made pumpkin bread (from a mix), which we ate for dinner with carrot-apple soup:

One day we weighed and measured our pumpkins.

I pointed out about twenty times how interesting it was that the already carved pumpkin weighed a lot less than the other one of similar size. MAYBE boos understood why. MAYBE.

Otherwise, our energy was devoted to carving pumpkins. We (i.e., Mom) carved one pumpkin on Monday night, one on Tuesday night, and the last two on Wednesday morning. We modeled the faces after jack-o-lanterns in children's books (boos got to choose which ones). Here are our models:

And here are our jack-o-lanterns:

And here they are in the dark: