For Halloween we carved a pumpkin like every classroom in Canada did. Our pumpkin was not your usual Jack-o-lantern with a face. The children had lots of ideas about how it should look. The girls used words like crown, bow, dress, and bracelet. Then names like Cinderella and Elsa. The boys used words like eyes, mouth and scary. Then names like Maleficent and dragon. We had a few votes and decided to have a two sided pumpkin. One side a princess and the other a dragon. Next we measured the pumpkin and tested our theories if it could float. We opened up the top and scooped out the seeds. Susanne carved out the shapes and we displayed it in our class. Now that Halloween is over what do you do with a pumpkin? You take it to the forest of course. What will happen to it? Will it go rotten? Will it disappear? So many questions and guess'. We found a safe place, not too close that we would scare away the possible creatures visiting and not too far that we cannot see it. We found the perfect spot just outside of our flagged area in a small clearing. Now we wait. Six days later. "The pumpkin is gone!" "No Pumpkin!" Where did it go? "They ate it!" Who? "I don't know?" "The deers!" "The squirrels!" " Maybe a snail?" "Maybe a skunk?" "Maybe a crocodile?" Look around for any leftover parts. All we found is the top of the pumpkin. There was no other parts. No footprints. No clues. Though we did find this... "It's a mushroom!" "It looks like a potato!" "It literally looks like a potato."
And the research continues. By S Robitaille
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