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Show f ' ? .1 ' " "N ' " I i. , - i " i I ... . , i , .l - : : . :: .. k-:--- . is Jacob Rose, a student in Miss Gammon's fourth grade class at Central Elementary, displays his Pumpkin 'Hizzle," Fourth grade home of Great Pumpkin There are pumpkins everywhere. every-where. They are on the decorated desks, they are adopted by the students, they are pictured in the pumpkin patch. This is all part of the very special unit carried out in Miss Gammon's fourth grade class at Central Elementary Ele-mentary School in Pleasant Grove." The students have made water-color-crayon resist pumpkins and put them in the hall Pumpkin Patch. They wrote letters to the Great Pumpkin, ala "Peanuts." They have arranged their desks into pumpkin patches and the students stu-dents have decorated their patch with things they have made or brought from home. Each student has adopted a pumpkin. They are to treat it as a real person and must take good care of it. They can dress it, decorate deco-rate it, and the students named their pumpkin and Miss Gammon held a "swearing-in" ceremony with adoption papers. They will hold a contest at the end of this week to see who has decorated their pumpkin and taken care of it best. On Halloween the Great Pumpkin Pump-kin will visit the classroom and bringtreats if the pumpkin patches are "sincere" and they have been good. |