Billy Goats Gruff Engineering

This week we are learning about folktales! After doing the "usual" storytelling, sequencing, and writing about folktales, we did a little engineering! We built bridges for our Billy Goats Gruff to cross.

 The highlight of my day was hearing a kinder proudly announce to her mother, "I am an engineer and I used perseverance today when it was hard!" It's incredibly rewarding to hear them use the vocabulary we use in class!

There was some struggle involved and they had to problem-solve around the amount of clay, number of toothpicks, angle of their supports, etc. One student didn't think.his was sturdy enough and asked if he could continue to work on it tomorrow. This was the same child who told me he was sure he was going to need to go home sick today. We celebrated his perseverance, problem-solving, and desire to, "do his best" which is a class mantra.