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Art

Using a half of a paper plate have the
students paint the ridges green and the flat part red.
Use real watermelon seeds to add deminson.
Watermelon slice fromTLC Art

Torn paper mosaics

3-D watermelon slices.
After the students have painted their watermelon and attached seeds
on a paper folded in half glue around bottom and sides and stuff with crumpled up paper.

Math Ideas

Have students guess the circumference of the watermelon
using a piece of yarn/string. Later try out each one of the strings on the watermelon.
I then tape the strings in order of size on tagboard.
I do this with my pumpkin unit also.

Roll and take watermelon erasers

Make a pattern out of watermelon stamps.

Graph: I like watermelon/ I dislike watermelon
Have students color and sign a sm graphic of a watermelon and place on
the side they choose.

Graph different watermelon products.
Popsicles, cookies, muffins, ect.
I do the same thing in March with green things

Draw different sized watermelons on a paper
have the students measure the length of each one.

Using an outline of a watermelon, have students
find the area of different classroom items.

Then guess the weight of the watermelon.

Guess the number of seeds in a slice or even the whole thing!

Watermelon Math

Poems

Watermelon A-B-C
A-B-CDE
Watermelon is good for me!
F-G-HIJ
I can eat it everyday!
K-L-MNO
It's a fruit. Did you know?
P-Q-RST
Ripe and really juicy!
U-V-WXY
You will like it. Give it a try!
Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

From Kinderthemes.com


A-B-CDE
Watermelon is good for me.
F-G-HIJ
I can eat it every day.
K-L-MNO
Plant a seed and watch it grow.
P-Q-RST
Ripe and very juicy
U-V-WXY
You will like it if you try.
Z-Z-ZZZ
Watermelon is good for me!
Posted on Kinderthemes by Dee Dee.


Who took the melon from the melon patch
(Take off of who stole the cookies)

Songs

The Watermelon Song
Sung to : "Frere Jacques"
Watermelon, watermelon,
Tastes so yummy, tastes so yummy.
Green on the outside,
Red on the inside,
With black seeds, with black seeds



Watermelon
Sung to: "Frere Jacques"
Watermelon, watermelon
How it drips, how it drips
Up and down your elbows, up and down your elbows
Spit the pits! Spit the pits!



Watermelon
Sung to: "Are You Sleeping"
Watermelon, watermelon,
On the vine, on the vine,
Green and ripe and juicy,
Green and ripe and juicy,
Please be mine,
Please be mine.



The Watermelon Patch Song
Sung to: "Are you Sleeping?"
Watermelon, (Make a circle with your arms.)
Watermelon,
On the vine, (Curve hands and arms beside body.)
On the vine,
Sweet and red and juicy, (Rub your tummy.)
Sweet and red and juicy,
Please be mine! (Palms together as though pleading.)
Please be mine!
Watermelon, (Make a circle with your arms.)
Watermelon,
Thump, thump, thump, (Make a thumping movement with thumb and middle finger.)
Thump, thump, thump,
I think you are ready- (Point, resting finger on your temple.)
I think you are ready-
Big and plump! (Make a circle with your arms.)
Bug and plump!



Watermelon Echo Song
Sung to: "Frere Jacques"
Oh No (Oh No)
I just swallowed ( I just swallowed)
A watermelon seed ( a watermelon seed)
Will I grow a watermelon. ( will I grow a watermelon)
Deep in me? (deep in me?)
Oh no (Oh No)
that seed won't grow (that seed won't grow)
In my tummy (in my tummy)
There's no rain or sunshine (there's no rain or sunshine)
deep in me (deep in me)



Down By the Bay



I'm Growing

Plant Your Garden- S. Wallach



Students start as a ball on the floor. As the song goes on, the
students start to move and by Sunday they are reaching for the sky.
I'm growing, I'm growing, I'm growing every Monday and Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I'm growing here (leader points to a body part- others follow)
I'm growing there(leader points to a body part- others follow)
I'm growing up all over.(leader points whole body others follow)
I'm growing here(leader points to a body part- others follow)
I'm growing there(leader points to a body part- others follow)
I'm growing up all over.(leader points whole body others follow)
(This isn't really a watermelon specific song. It talks about growing
and days of the week.)

Activities

One thing that I make at my own home during the
summer are watermelon pops. Cut up a watermelon and take out all of the seeds
and blend in a blender. Put in popsicle molds or small cups and freeze.
They make a great hot day snack.
Watermelon Dippers
8 ounces sour cream
4 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Watermelon stix or small wedges
Blend together the sour cream, sugar and vanilla in a small serving bowl.
Use as a dip for the watermelon.

Make watermelon scented playdough.
Watermelon, Watermelon,seed (Duck duck goose)
Writing activity: Have students create watermelon
recipes.
Make a list of all the watermelon things
they can think of. (Candy, gum, ect.)

Science

Science Lessons

Grow watermelons

ABC ideas

I have three different watermelon
"fonts" that I use. I print them on cardstock and the students put in order.

Pocket Charts

Watermelon Happy
This is watermelon happy.
This is watermelon sad.
Now you see him sleepy.
Now you see him mad.
This is watermelon in pieces small.
But in my tummy, he's best of all.

Watermelon words:
rind, seeds, growing, stripes, vines, blooms, ripen

Bulletin Board Ideas

Display your art projects
Make your entire BB a slice of watermelon.
Have the "seeds" be black paper with your students faces on.
Have the seeds be compliments given to your students written on them.

Links to See

Preschool Education
Virtual Vine Unit
Addie's Watermelon Unit
Enormous Watermelon
Mrs. Pohlmeyer's Unit
Hubbard's Cupboard
All Watermelon links
Mrs. Sirois's Spot

Writing

If I were a watermelon...
List places students eat watermelons.
Create a circle story of the life cycle.
See how many words are in watermelon
Write watermelon acrostics

Books to Make

Cover (color to look like inside of watermelon)

"Watermelon, Watermelon page 2- Brown dirt, brown dirt what do you see?
(put real dirt on this page)
page 3-I see black seeds looking at me.
(glue real seeds)
Black seeds, black seeds what do you see?
Page 4-I see blue water looking at me.
Blue water, blue water what do you see?
Page 5-I see a green vine looking at me.
Page 6- Green vine, green vine what do you see?
Page 7-I see a flower looking at me.
page 8-I see...watermelon page 9-watermelon, watermelon what do you see?
I see (teacher's name) class looking at me!
From Mrs. Mabray's Firs Grade


Make a finger print seed book.
Using the outline of a watermelon slice, have students use their
pinky to make seeds. They can write or just have to read the page.
ex. I see seven seeds. Then they stamp their pinky's seven times.
Make a life cycle of a watermelon.
Classbook based on Down by the Bay
Have a writing frame prepared for your students.
Have you ever seen a _______________ ____________ a _________________

Books to Read

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