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Kindergarten & 1st Graders Use STEAM to Accompany Reading Lessons with The Three Little Pigs

STEAM is the use of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics in classroom learning and lessons. Each day, here at Holy Trinity, our students are involved in a variety of activities that include all of these components throughout our various grade levels. 

Over the last week, our kindergarten and first grade students have used STEAM lessons to accompany their reading lessons. Our kindergarten students have read The Three Little Pigs this week in reading, as have the 1st grade students. They've worked to explain what might happen next using reading skills they have learned this year. Next week, the kindergarten and first grade students will all be going on a field trip to see The Three Little Pigs play, too!

With their reading lessons in mind about what truly happens in the story, the students went one step further using art and engineering to build homes for the pigs, shapes they've learned about in math to build strutures, and a specific number of toothpicks and gum drops they counted to use. In teams, Kindergarteners built homes for the pigs. In 1st grade, students worked individually to build homes.  What shapes and structures would best keep their pig protected from the big bad wolf? 

Today, they tested their homes when the Big Bad Wolf, a hair dryer, came to visit! Quickly, Kindergarten students were given some time to consider, now that the wolf is really coming, do you need a new plan? What shapes and designs would hold up the best on a light huff and puff, as well as a really strong blowing breath from the wolf (the hair dryer's low and high settings)?

Some students used double toothpicks between their gum drops. Some changed the shape to be a cubed home instead of a wall fence. Some made their buildings shorter. Others thought their house was the best it could be and waited for the wolf... All of our students had a great time with this lesson and loved cheering each other on when the wolf visited their "homes". 


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