Pretzel Project in Mineola Honors Presidents

In honor of Presidents’ Day, kindergarten students in the dual-language program at Hampton Street School in the Mineola School District went back in time to experience life as our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.

The students in Denise Maynard’s ‘bridging’ class built log cabins out of milk cartons, icing and pretzels, and did it all while working with the lights off to simulate the lack of electricity in that era.

The creative lesson was part of the social studies standards of “developing a shared sense of history, community and culture in our country.” The layout of the pretzels on the milk carton also reinforced to students the concept of arrays – columns and rows, as well as vertical and horizontal lines, which helps with their addition and subtraction skills, as well as bridges the lines between math and social studies.

Photos courtesy of the Mineola Union Free School District

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