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Pumpkins
Did you know that:
• The largest pumpkin pie ever made was over five feet in
diameter and weighed over 350 pounds. It used 80
pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen
eggs and took six hours to bake.
• In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an
ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.
• Pumpkins were once recommended for removing
freckles and curing snake bites.
• The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds.
• Native Americans flattened strips of pumpkins, dried
them and made mats.
Learn more about Pumpkins when you View Sesame Street:
Abby Plays the Letter “P” Game, and read The Pumpkin Book
by Gail Gibbons and do spend an October day baking a pumpkin
pie with children.
Web Resources:
This website features a plethora of resources, readings and
activities all about pumpkins for students, parents and teachers:
http://42explore.com/pumpkins.htm
October 2007
VIEW:
Sesame Street
Abby Plays the Letter “P” Game (4139)
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Alan teaches Elmo and Zoe the letter "P" game. After they
successfully find a penguin, a potato, a pineapple and peanut
butter on pumpernickel bread, Abby poofs in to join them. and
turns a salt shaker into a pumpkin. Then, she poofs herself to
Fairyland and brings back Peter Piper from the nursery rhyme
and Prince Paul from the Cinderella fairytale, but Peter needs
his patch of pickled peppers to pick, and Prince Paul needs to
find the foot that fits the glass slipper! They need to get
back to Fairyland, but Abby hasn't learned how to send them
back! Find out what will happen to them all!
Focus for Media Interaction:
Throughout the program work on prediction with your
child. Ask them what they think will happen next and
why.
Discuss real versus make-believe. Abby turns a salt
shaker into a pumpkin but what can you really turn a
pumpkin into?
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DO:
READ:
The Pumpkin Book
By Gail Gibbons
From seed to vine and blossom to table, Gibbons traces the
growth cycle of everyone's favorite autumn symbol—the
pumpkin. Meticulous drawings detail the transformation of
tiny seeds to the colorful gourds that appear at roadside
stands and stores in the fall. Directions for planting a pumpkin
patch, carving a jack-o'-lantern, and drying the seeds give
young gardeners the instructions they need to grow and enjoy
their own golden globes.
Some pumpkin jokes……
• What do you call a fat Jack-o-Lantern? A Plumpkin
• How do you fix a broken Jack-O-Lantern?
With A Pumpkin Patch
• What did one jack-o-lantern say to the other?
Cut it out!
Easy Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients:
• One 9-inch unbaked pie shell
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 2 cups pumpkin puree or 1 16-ounce can of solid pack
pumpkin
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon grown cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
• 1 cup skim milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 425ºF. Any interaction with the oven
should be done by an adult.
2. In a large bowl, add filling ingredients in the order
given. Mix well with electric mixer or by hand.
3. Pour into pie shell. Bake 15 minutes. Then reduce oven
temperature to 350ºF and continue baking for an
additional 45 minutes or until knife inserted near the
center comes out clean. Cool slightly and serve warm or
chilled. Makes one 9-inch pie.
Support for Thirteen’s Ready To Lead in Literacy Service is made possible by the Uris Brothers Foundation with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and the Bloomingdale’s Fund of the Federated Department Stores Foundation.