What will happen to the pumpkin?

After exploring the pumpkin in Kindergarten Enrichment on Monday, we decided to place it in a sealed plastic container to find out what might happen to it. On Friday, the kindergarteners made their first observations of the pumpkin. The children drew what they noticed and made predictions about what might happen:

What do you think will happen to our pumpkin? 
Julian: I think it will stay alive but it will get rotten. Just like turn brown.
Evan: Get rotten and be dead.
Zack: If you keep it outside, rabbits or squirrels will eat it. Once I kept it outside and squirrel ate it.
Brett: It will turn brown and get expired. It's not good anymore, like I wanted to eat pudding, but it was expired and I couldn't eat it anymore.

While looking at the container the children noticed something:
Evan: It doesn't have holes to breathe.
Zack: It's not a person.
Evan: Plants breathe.
Brett: Apples in the fridge breathe.
Evan: And leaves breathe.

We will have to continue observing to see if any of our predictions will happen and think more about whether the pumpkin breathes or not. We will be observing the pumpkin over the next few weeks to find out what will happen, stay tuned!