Adapted STEM

Winter/Spring 2026

Miss Wead's and Mrs. Shultz's Class

We have: 

• Explored various animals and their habitats.

• Participated in numerous fine and gross motor activities about penguins and dinosaurs. 

• Explored space and rockets.

• Launched our own rockets! 

Mrs. Irwin's Class

We have: 

• Engineered a Push Cart

• Engineering parachutes

• Used teamwork to build train tracks with a support system. 

December 2025

This month we: 

• Read the story: The Gingerbread Man and enjoyed many fine motor building stations, such as: rolling play-dough to make "cookies", building and decorating gingerbread houses and Christmas trees, winter sensory bins, and more!  

November 2025

Miss Wead's Class and Mrs. Shutlz's Class

This month we:

• Explored chemical reactions as we made our own colorful turkeys! 

• Sorted colors

• Stamped colorful turkeys 

• Explored numerous fall themed buiding stations

November 2025

Mrs. Irwin's Class

This month we: 

• Retold the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and engineered our own bridges.  

• Explored numerous engineering challenges.

• Got a one-month update from our calf, Sprinkles!  She is growing fast and weighs more than the students in our class. :) 

October

Miss Wead's Class and Mrs. Shultz's Class

We explored Fall and the four seasons through various sensory activities.  These included:  

• Fall sensory bin/color sorting

• Fall leaf rubbings

• Fall tree painting

• Viewing leaves through a magnify glass

• There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves read aloud

• Non-fiction texts

• Four season sensory tubes

October 2025

Mrs. Irwin's Class

We adopted a cow! Meet Sprinkles, a 93 pound Holstein calf.  She is located at Kurtland Farms in Everson, PA.  This year we will follow her growth and development at her dairy farm.  

This month's activities included learning about germs, adopting our cow, and building a fence for our "Creepy Carrots".  

Miss Wead's Class and Mrs. Shultz's Class

August/September

Some of our favorite activities included:

• Building tall structures on the light table. 

• Reading stories about bridges. Then building and making our own bridges with large bricks and Duplo blocks.  

• Using sensory bins to explore building, scooping, and motion (ramps).  

• Exploring and building large ramps. 

• Exploring push and pull concepts using cars and blocks.  

Students are learning and demonstrating essential STEM skills such as: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity! 

Mrs. Irwin's Class

August/September

Some of our favorite activities included:

• Exploring energy (kinetic and potential) and motion through the use of ramps and marble runs.

• Exploring force (a push or pull). 

• Understanding and exploring the use of simple machines: ramps, screws, pulleys, wedges, wheels and axles, and levers

Students are learning and demonstrating essential STEM skills such as: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity!