A tradition is born

A new tradition may be taking hold: fall brings pumpkins that become jack o’lanterns that become rapidly decomposing pumpkins that lead to… a cross-divisional pumpkin smash?

As the fifth and sixth graders of the gardening club explained it in the fifth and sixth grade newspaper:

 

The gardening club was smashing pumpkins with our teacher Mr. Gillen and our friends from Young Kindergarten. 

We were smashing pumpkins from Halloween that families donated and will become fresh healthy soil for next year.
 

The garden club started smashing pumpkins together, and then the Young Kindergarten kids came and smashed some more.

We smashed the pumpkins to about the size of our hands, and then put them in buckets with soil from last year so the pumpkins decompose faster.
 

The kids from the Young Kindergarten were very good at smashing the pumpkins, and the kids from the gardening club helped them out. We used small mallets and shovels, and we had lots of fun!