It's been a while....

Haven't hardly blogged at all the past few weeks.  Busy with school, conferences, mentoring a cohort, my own two kids and sewing.  But I'm back and have pumpkins on the brain, but who doesn't? We just started a writing project about summarizing the lifecycle of the pumpkin and going through the Writing Process for the first time.  We've read a few nonfiction pumpkin books to fill our brains with facts but I felt like whipping up a partner poem to use during my Daily 5 groups.

So here it is and it's FREE!

Too Many Pumpkins

I LOVE pumpkins!  

I guess I should say I love to EAT pumpkins!

If you can make it with pumpkin, I'll eat it.  My favorite is probably chocolate chip pumpkin pancakes!  There's a character in one of my favorite pumpkin books who hates pumpkins.  I hadn't yet read it to my class last week and decided it was time.

Later, during writing time, my students wrote a literature response about their favorite part of the story.  

We had such a good time with the story that I whipped up a Readers' Theater script to go with it! It's a trio play, so I'm going to use it in my small guided reading groups next week.

 It's FREE, so I'm linking up with 

I hope you like this story (and play) as much as I do!