It's the blue pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

This is a real, 100% no color added blue pumpkin. It was a for real blue pumpkin. And I was more excited about it than the children.

I had never seen a blue pumpkin before. It was something new and exciting. Every pumpkin I've ever scene has been orange, or green if it wasn't ready yet. But never a blue pumpkin. Ever. When I saw it, about 5,763,324 questions popped into my head. Why was it blue? Was it a pigment issue? Was it dyed that color? Was the inside blue, too? Did it taste different? How often do these grow? Are they really popular? Or is it something really rare? Where did they find a blue pumpkin? This is extreme inquiry. I mean, a blue pumpkin? I always thought pumpkins were just orange.

With children, they have basic knowledge of lots of stuff, and as teachers, we are supposed to help build on this knowledge. Obviously, I would not be much help, because I don't know anything about blue pumpkins, but if I were teaching about pumpkins, I would be sure to know a lot about them, and even blue pumpkins. It's important to be prepared for questions, because children have them. And they really have questions about unusual things. Like blue pumpkins.

Inquiry is important because without it, children don't build knowledge, and they don't learn. In my classroom, we will question everything in every unit, because without questions, nothing gets answered. And if nothing gets answered, what's the point in the first place?