Building Halloween Excitement

Universal Pre-K Students Put the STEM in the ‘Five Pumpkins’

Middle Country Central School District’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten program is trading tricks and treats for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Mrs. Hanson’s full-day pre-kindergarten class recently took a scientific approach on the children’s nursery rhyme entitled, “Five Little Pumpkins.” Students worked together to use building blocks to engineer an effective “gate” for the “five little pumpkins” to sit-upon, in accordance with the rhyme.

Photo 1 Middle Country Central School District’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten students work together to engineer an effective “gate” for the “five little pumpkins” to sit-upon, in accordance with the popular Halloween nursery rhyme.

 Photo 2Middle Country Central School District’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten students took a scientific approach on the children’s nursery rhyme entitled, “Five Little Pumpkins.” Students worked in groups to build gates for pumpkins to sit upon in accordance with the rhyme.