The Curious Catfish

With STEM/STEAM/STREAM taking off in primary classrooms across the country, Tinkering Trays, STEM boxes (sticks, bins, and bags), Makerspaces and the like are growing in popularity as teachers ask themselves "How can I integrate STEM into my classroom?" Minute to STEM it Tinker Tubs were born out of a desire to give my students more access to STEM materials and activities. For the past 3 years I've been collecting resources through Donors Choose projects, Hall Malls/Free Table in the Teacher Lo

This pack provides cross-curricular activities based on the study of hermit crabs. Whether you are exploring hermit crabs with your students or considering adopting one as a class pet, you'll find a plethora of science, reading, writing and math activities that you can do with your students to support their learning! The activities you will find in this pack include: *Science* Informational Posters Interactive Journal Pages Mini-book Vocabulary Matching Strips 2 Observation recording pages *

In this 113 page responding to literature packet you will find a variety of worksheets and activities you can do with students to facilitate stronger, more in depth responses to the stories students read independently or listen to in a while group setting. These response pages are aligned with Common Core Standards for Literature (RL) and Informational Text (RI). You will find multiple pages supporting all 20 standards in these 2 strands. In addition to literature and informational text you

This is an exciting year long project you can do with your class! You will need the book Giraffes Can't Dance, a matching stuffed animal and a durable folder. I like to use the plastic poly folders with fasteners and pockets. Each week you will draw a name and send all three items home with that student. They will read the story with their parents and bring the stuffed animal on whatever adventure they choose. Before the weekend is up they will need to complete 1 journal page sharing their

This is an exciting year long project you can do with your class! You can use any Curious George book, a matching stuffed animal and a durable folder. I like to use the plastic poly folders with fasteners and pockets. Each week you will draw a name and send all three items home with that student. They will read the story with their parents and bring the stuffed animal on whatever adventure they choose. Before the weekend is up they will need to complete 1 journal page sharing their "adventure"

This is an exciting year long project you can do with your class! You can use any Pout Pout Fish book, a matching stuffed animal and a durable folder. I like to use the plastic poly folders with fasteners and pockets. Each week you will draw a name and send all three items home with that student. They will read the story with their parents and bring the stuffed animal on whatever adventure they choose. Before the weekend is up they will need to complete 1 journal page sharing their "adventure"

This packet contains 23 word building worksheets for most of the holidays that occur during the school year. Students cut out letters at the bottom of the page and rearrange them to build new words. They list the words they build in the recording section. I have aligned this activity to 2 first grade common core standards under Reading: Foundational Skills, Phonics and Word Recognition. This activity could be considered appropriate for students in grades K-3 or possibly beyond!

This is an exciting year long project you can do with your class! You will need the book Down in the Cool of the Pool, a matching stuffed animal and a durable folder. I like to use the plastic poly folders with fasteners and pockets. Each week you will draw a name and send all three items home with that student. They will read the story with their parents and bring the stuffed animal on whatever adventure they choose. Before the weekend is up they will need to complete 1 journal page sharin

This is a basic mystery bag observation recording form on which student can record their observations of objects they touch inside a mystery bag.

B is for wood, tomorrow’s bridge! Q is for princess, tomorrow’s Queen! Based on the book Tomorrow’s Alphabet by George Shannon. Students will use their higher order thinking skills to look beyond the obvious as they create their own tomorrow’s alphabet.