Great job by our kindergarten engineers!

Mariann Bott, a math coach in the Pine Bush district, came to Tara Tuttle’s kindergarten class at Pine Bush Elementary to do a fun STEAM activity with the students. The class learned how to be engineers!

Two girls sit at a table in their kindergarten class. One girl has long dark braids and is wearing a light purple shirt and blue mask. The other is wearing a white shirt and mask and has blonde air. They are putting plastic letters on top of a tree they made of cardboard and popsicle sticks.

Two boys, one with reddish hair and wearing a blue mask and yellow shirt, and another with a black shirt, black print mask and glasses, put magnetic letters on a cardboard tube fitted with popsicle sticks as branches. There are girls in the background sitting at another table doing the same.

After reading the story, “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” a rhyming book about letters racing up to the top of a coconut tree, the kids had to test out how many letters their little homemade tree branches could hold.

Two girl sitting at a table look at their tree, made of cardboard and popsicle sticks, with several letters on it. One girl has shoulderlength dark hair and is wearing a blue mask and orange shirt. The other girl has long blonde hair and is wearing a flowered shirt and dark mask. Two kindergarten girls are at a table aancing magnetic letters on their little tree made of a cardboard tube and popsicle sticks on top. One girl with long brown hair is standing and looking down from the top while the other girl with blonde hair in a ponytail puts letters on the tree. TWo kindergarten boys, one wearing alight blue shirt and the other with a dark blue shirt, sit at a table and balance magnetic letters on a cardboard tube with popsicle sticks.

With the use of a cardboard tube, popsicle sticks, and magnetic letters, they learned how to balance and make all their letters stay on the tree. If the letters fell off, they didn’t give up. They took a breath and tried again. They also practiced great teamwork! Two kindergarten boys, one wearing a black and white striped shirt and a checked mask, the other wearing a black sweatshirt and printed mask, attempt to balance magnetized letters on a cardboard tube with popsicle sticks on top, looking like a tree.

Two kindergarten girls, one with long brown hair, wearing a blue mask and black shirt, and the other wearing a prnted mask and light blue shirt with her hair in a ponytail, balance several letters on the limbs of their little tree made of popsicle sticks on a cardboard tube. Three kindergarten girls, all with longer dark hair, sit around a table putting magnetic letters onto a cardboard tube. The girls all are wearing masks and are in a classroom.

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