This story is about a Village mouse and a field mouse that both fall in love with the same pumpkin. They both water and fertilize it every day. They both give it sugar water every day as a little family secret to make it grow bigger. Neither of these two mice know that the other is doing this until one night they are both trying to cover the pumpkin in fear of an early frost. Once they realize that this is the reason for their pumpkin being so big, they decided to work together until the pumpkin contest and then at Halloween they will both carve it into a jack-o-lantern. These two field mice become friends while working together and they end up winning the first place prize in the contest and have the biggest jack-o-lantern in the entire town.
I think story is a great depiction of how well hard work pays off. These two mice worked diligently to help this pumpkin grow to be the largest pumpkin in the town. I would give my students their own pumpkins made out of construction paper and then on one side of the pumpkin I would have them draw what they would do with their own pumpkin if they had one as large as this, and then on the other side I would have them write a short summary and explain why they chose to do what they did with their pumpkin
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