Our Pumpkin Patch

With the start of October this past Wednesday, we wanted to get into the spirit of fall in our second grade classroom. To do this we decided to do a fall writing activity; we wrote an Acrostic Poem about pumpkins.

An Acrostic Poem is a poem that uses the letters in a word to begin each line of a poem. For this Acrostic Poem we used the word PUMPKIN. The students started this writing activity by brainstorming words that started with the letters of the word PUMPKIN that also went along with what you think of when you see pumpkins. For the letter “P” they thought of things such as “pumpkin pie”, “pumpkin patch”, or “picking seeds out of the pumpkin”. Or for the letter “K” they thought of things such as “kids trick-or-treating”, “kids in costumes”, or “kids carving pumpkins”.

Once we brainstormed different ideas for each letter (the students became very creative with their ideas) we started on a rough draft of our Acrostic Poem. Students wrote their poem using the word PUMPKIN and, once they were finished with their drafts, they were given a pumpkin paper to write, in their best handwriting, their final drafts. After finishing these final drafts, they cut out their pumpkin poems.

Thanks to the artistic minds of our second graders, we now have a creative pumpkin patch bulletin board in our classroom. Come on over and read through our poems, you will certainly be impressed by our pumpkin patch!