What's Inside Pumpkins and Pears?

 Today we looked very carefully at this pear. 

Carolyn wrote down our ideas and our curious questions.

 

 After we had a look at the pear, we had a look at a pumpkin.

It was green and yellow and had a stalk, too. It was bumpy.

We cut the pumpkin open. It was orange on the inside.

It had seeds in it, too. We wondered how many seeds are in a pumpkin.

There were a lot! We laid them all out on hundred boards so we could keep track of them. 

Our pumpkin had 172 seeds! They were slimy and stringy.

 Nicole's class did a pumpkin, too. 

Their pumpkin has 152 seeds!