🔎 Sherlock Homeschooling 🔍 |🎃 The Biggest Pumpkin Ever 🎃| Family Literature and Activity Guide

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Literature and Activity Guide from Sherlock Homeschooling is an easy-to-use picture book companion for your homeschool. Created by Hannah Ward, M.Ed., this unit study helps families connect through shared learning experiences. All Sherlock Homeschooling resources are secular, academic, and research-based.

📚 What’s Inside? 📚

This printable PDF contains companion activities for the book:

Title: The Biggest Pumpkin Ever

Author: Steven Kroll

Illustrator: Jeni Bassett

Date Published: 1993

Book Type: Fiction - Picture Book

What is this book about?

This book is about two mice who each secretly help a pumpkin grow into "the biggest pumpkin ever," but for different reasons.

The story covers how pumpkins grow from seeds, their lifecycle, and the process of caring for them. It shows how pumpkins start as tiny seeds, grow into plants, and develop into large pumpkins over time.

The book also highlights how the mice work together, even though they don’t know what the other is doing. It includes themes of cooperation and teamwork. This sweet story touches on pumpkin growing contests, showing the excitement of growing and showcasing a big pumpkin.

PDF Includes:

Book Summary
Illustration Guide
Vocabulary Guide
Discussion Guide
Activity: Research Pumpkin Growing Contests
Activity: Pumpkin Dissection 
Activity: Jack-O-Lantern Shadow Puppets
Activity: Make a Pumpkin Lifecycle Chart

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👩‍🏫 About the Author 👩‍🏫

Hannah Ward, M.Ed., is the homeschool mom and educational designer behind Sherlock Homeschooling and Little House Kindergarten. With years of experience teaching students from preschool to university, Hannah’s work is grounded in research-based principles and is designed to empower parents as their child’s first and most important teacher. She holds a Master of Education degree in Education Technology and Instructional Design, as well as a Master of Science degree in Management and Leadership.

Hannah is currently pursuing a doctorate in Educational Leadership and English. She lives in the Ozarks with her husband and three children, where she continues to create inspiring curriculum resources that support global literacy and community education.