Have you ever had a time where you’ve thought through exactly what you are going to say and/or write? But then… instead of writing it down (or saying it), you just keep it floating around in your brain? Honestly, that is exactly what this post is. I have been thinking it through since mid-October. Here we are a whole month later.

I have to be honest, I’ve thought through the wording for this post way too many times. I had many opportunities to sit down and type it up, but I kept choosing other things. Maybe I’ll get the hang of it one of these days. Then I can tell you all of the amazing (and wild) things that have happened in such a short amount of time.

You might be confused why this post is called “The Sweetest Little Pumpkins” and I have yet to mention anything that would explain that title. So, let me start explaining this by showing you a picture.

In this picture, you see the backpacks of my students. Below each backpack is a pumpkin. There are thirteen of them (see if you can find them all, some are hiding). These are pumpkins that they were able to pick out. In case you are trying to figure this one out… we took all of the kindergartners (and the preschoolers) from my school to a pumpkin patch!

This was honestly an experience I hope I never forget. My class started by going straight to the patch. Some students chose their pumpkins quickly. Others took a long time and we had to countdown for some of them. A lot of my students wanted to find the biggest ones they could. In one of the other classes, it seemed like everyone looked for smaller ones. Either way, all of the kiddos got to choose a pumpkin to take home.

After we picked our pumpkins, we got our class up on the back of a truck to take a group picture. It was definitely an exercise of patience and communication to get all thirteen of them standing in a way that we were able to take a picture. But we succeeded! Of course, we took a nice smiling one and a silly one too. Both of them were absolutely adorable!

After this, we walked over and looked at the animals that were there. All of the kindergartners were so excited and they loved seeing all of the fun animals that were there. We then got to go on a hayride around the pumpkin patch. It had been really rainy that day, so we had some big mud puddles to go through. Some students loved it, but other students weren’t so sure about how muddy it was.

We then got to play in this cool play area that was at this specific pumpkin patch. Keep in mind… it was muddy. We had so many students that had mud EVERYWHERE! I don’t know how they did it. They honestly had such a blast, and I loved seeing how much fun they were having! Some students had been nervous about riding the bus, but they overcame their fears and actually had a great time going on it.

I loved getting to see all the smiles, hear all the laughs, and watch my students try to carry their pumpkins out of the building at the end of the day. At that point, we had thirteen students in our class. Now we have fourteen. I must say that I love every single pumpkin that is part of our patch, and I can’t imagine what our patch would be like if even one were to leave.

I don’t know if you were expecting this much detail/vague storytelling when you clicked on this post, but I thought I would share something that we did. I love getting to share stories from my classroom, and I hope to share more soon! But for now, I hope you enjoyed hearing about the thirteen pumpkins that my students chose on their first field trip!

Let the student teaching adventures continue!

-Brenna (aka Miss M)