This week was a short week (HALLELUJAH) because we have fall break today and tomorrow! (Thus the sudden bombardment of blog updates.) SO I decided to make it a fun(ish) sort of week where we mostly did science centered around, wait for it.....PUMPKINS. We've already talked a lot about making observations (come and ask any of my students what "observe" means...they'll tell you AND show you, it makes me so proud), so we reviewed that.... "When we observe we carefully hear, taste, touch, smell, or look at something." And then I showed them this: And I told a little bit of a "story." (Based in reality...with some made-up details to make it more exciting.) I told them that I had something VERY special to share with them. My dad grows PUMPKINS! This is a picture of me with my dad's biggest pumpkin when I was in Minnesota! And every year we have a big competition (where people try to win something) to see who has the biggest pumpkin. M...