Take a pumpkin to school. Now there's a fact your students might not know. Pumpkins are harvested in early fall, and echo the changing colors of the leaves. Place one or more pumpkins in view of the students. Ask them to contribute a list of words to describe the pumpkin.
Students can write similes and metaphors using words that describe pumpkins.
Invite students to make their own word search puzzles out of the descriptive adjectives they came up with in the previous activity. When finished, they can exchange assignments and draw the face as described in the paragraph they are handed. Pumpkin math . Pumpkins are a natural for math. They come in various sizes and contain many seeds.