Purple Day Podcast #7: Grandmother Pumpkin
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About the Episode
In this week's episode of Purple Day, we will learn songs about autumn and falling leaves and hear a story about an old woman who grows pumpkins for all the children in her neighborhood. This Storytime episode will teach you and your child seasonal songs, poems, and fingerplays as well as a nature-based story. Enjoy Storytime with your child and deepen your connection to each other and the world around you.
About the Story: Grandmother Pumpkin
After circle time, we hear a story together. We listen to nature stories and folk tales during the third and fourth weeks of the month. Today, we hear the story of Grandmother Pumpkin. Grandmother Pumpkin grows pumpkins for the neighborhood children on her bustling city block. However, this year, she can’t remember where she put the pumpkin seeds she needs to save for next year’s pumpkins. Thankfully, Clara, a kind girl from the neighborhood, offers to help Grandmother Pumpkin. Eventually, Grandmother Pumpkin realizes the pumpkin seeds are all still inside the pumpkins!
When she gives the children the pumpkins, she tells them about the seeds inside and how to collect them. She asks each child to save some seeds for her and to plant the rest when spring returns.
Autumn Circle Time Highlight
We are learning this poem together during Storytime. You can hear it in this week's Purple Day episode.
I am a Pumpkin, unknown
I am a pumpkin
Big and orange and round
I grow a long vine
Rooted in the ground.
When autumn wind whirls and blows
And the first cold frost does nip our nose
Children come and pick me up
Take me home and with a cup
They scoop out all my seeds inside
And carve a funny face with pride.
I am their jack-o-lantern bright
I shine with fiery candlelight.
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