Pumpkin Math and Lesson Plans (Grade 1-3)

Tired of spending your weekends searching for fall math activities that actually match the Ontario curriculum?

Pumpkin Math is a ready-to-teach, five-day unit for Grade 1-3 that brings the fun of October into your classroom while keeping real math learning at the centre. Made for Ontario teachers, this low-prep resource includes daily lesson plans and hands-on activities, so you can skip the planning and spend your time teaching. All week, students practise skills from all five strands of the Ontario math curriculum (Number Sense, Algebra, Data, Spatial Sense, and Financial Literacy) through pumpkin-themed games, investigations, and problem-solving tasks that keep them curious, working together, and thinking like mathematicians.

Instead of piecing together worksheets that don’t go together, you get one complete unit where every activity connects and builds toward a goal. The week ends with a classroom “Pumpkin Festival”, a memorable (but easy to prep!) event where students use what they’ve learned in real-life situations like budgeting, collecting data, measuring, and working with patterns.

🎃 What You’ll Love About This Resource:

✅ 5 days of engaging pumpkin-themed math activities for autumn, ending with a classroom Pumpkin Festival.

✅ Covers all five Ontario math strands: Number Sense, Algebra, Data, Spatial Sense, and Financial Literacy.

✅ Includes lesson plans, 40 pages of worksheets and activity materials, and a 13-page answer key.

✅ Practise place value, estimating, patterns, coding, tally charts, graphing, probability, shapes, and counting money.

✅ Hands-on activities include I Have… Who Has…, Pumpkin Scoot, a scavenger hunt, pumpkin investigations, and Don’t Smash the Pumpkin!

✅ Includes reflection pages for students to explain their mathematical thinking.