The Curious Catfish

Balloons Over Broadway is the charming story of Tony Sarg and his upside-down puppets that have become Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade icons! Your students will fall in love with Melissa Sweet’s incredible picture book and you will love the lesson it provides your students. Tony’s inventions were always exceptional but that didn’t stop him from finding ways to improve! The following companion includes multiple ELA activities like retelling (story maps and BME), comparing, cause and effect, chara

Rosie Revere Engineer is a delightful, inspirational tale about a girl who learns to overcome and even celebrate her failures. This is a great story to use in teaching your students the value of failure and perseverance! This philosophy will help students throughout their school years, career, and life in general. The following companion includes multiple ELA based activities from retelling (story maps and BME), comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, and vocabulary (puzzles and boo

Ada Twist Scientist is the charming tale of a curious girl named Ada. Her curiosity sets her on fact finding missions which result in experiments that lead to more questions and a bit of chaos! The following companion includes multiple ELA activities for retelling, comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose/message, and vocabulary. Additionally, I have included five Ada-inspired science investigations to accompany the story! There are background and instructional pages,

How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is the whimsical tale of Santa and one of his elves skillfully eluding the many traps that different children set for them! The special holiday STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process, encouraging them to think outside of the box, while the ELA activities help students dig in and analyze the text! Not to mention, there's a super cute How-To Craft! This unit includes: • Literacy Activities Story Map, Character Tr

Iggy Peck Architect is the funny, charming tale of a young man with unconventional talents and interests. Few people appreciate his talents until a fateful field trip where his talent rescues his teacher and fellow students! This instant classic is a wonderful way to inspire your students to nurture their out of the box interests! The following companion includes multiple ELA activities such as retelling (story maps and BME), comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, and vocabulary

Going Places by Peter and Paul Reynolds is a wonderful story about Rafael and Maya who learn to think outside of the box during the Going Places Contest! The book along with these activities will encourage your students to find inspiration in the world around them as they dig into the text and complete a STEM activity! The following companion includes multiple ELA activities like retelling (story maps and BME), comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose/message and vocab

This mini-unit contains several activities that will help you teach the commutative property of addition to your students. They are great supplements to use along side curriculum resources, during math centers, or as remediation/enrichment activities. All of the pages are black line masters for easy and affordable printing. Activities include: *Interactive Journal pages -Teacher side -Student side *Cut and Paste *Roll and Switch *Domino Flip Flop Facts *Spin a Flip Flop Fact *Memory *Craft

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

How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is the whimsical tale of a savvy Leprechaun skillfully eluding the many traps that different children set for him! The special holiday STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process, encouraging them to think outside of the box, while the ELA activities help students dig in and analyze the text! Not to mention, there's a super cute How-To Craft! This unit includes: • Literacy Activities Story Map, Character Trait

How to Catch Santa by Jean Reagan and Lee Wildish is the enchanting holiday tale about children brainstorming and planning how to catch Santa and what they will do once they get their hands on him! The special holiday STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process, encouraging them to think outside of the box, while the ELA activities help students dig in and analyze the text! Not to mention, there's a super cute Writing Craft! This unit includes: • Literacy Activities St

Sofia Valdez, Future Prez is the charming tale of a brave young lady with a giving heart and big dreams for her community! Throughout the story she learns that change starts with one person-even if that person is in grade two. The following companion includes multiple ELA activities such as retelling, evaluation of story structure, comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose and authors message journal pages, and vocabulary. Additionally, I have included an Act of Service

This special holiday STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process while encouraging them to think outside of the box! They will also have the opportunity to write a How-To story based on their trap with the option to turn it into a craft! This unit includes: • Literacy Activities How to Catch a Turkey Writing page & craft, Brainstorm trap idea’s • STEM Challenge Challenge Poster, Challenge Rules, Lesson Planning Page, Teacher Directions, Guiding Discussion Questions,

This resources is also available in my STEM in Sports unit! This exciting STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process while encouraging them to think outside of the box! CHALLENGE: Construct a working goal post for a paper football. This STEM challenge includes: • Challenge Posters • Challenge Rules • Instructional Posters • Lesson Planning Page • Teacher Directions • Guiding Discussion Questions • Recording Sheet (recommended for K-2) • STEM Journal (recommended for

How to Catch the Easter Bunny by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is the whimsical tale of a savvy Easter Bunny skillfully eluding the many traps that different children set for him! The special holiday STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process, encouraging them to think outside of the box, while the ELA activities help students dig in and analyze the text! Not to mention, there's a super cute How-To Craft! This unit includes: • Literacy Activities Story Map, Character

This exciting STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process while encouraging them to think outside of the box! CHALLENGE: Build a solar oven to bake a s'more. This STEM challenge includes: -Challenge Poster -Challenge Rules -Class Graph -Teacher Directions -Guiding and Discussion Questions -Picture Instructions -Two Recording Sheet Options (recommended for K-2) -STEM Journal (recommended for 3-5 and beyond) Check out all of my STEM/STEAM/STREAM resources here! PLEASE

Were you fooled into Snipe Hunting as a kid? It was a childhood right of passage to be tricked into running around the forest or field with your pillowcase making weird noises (to the delight of everyone else) in an attempt to catch that notorious “snipe”. The following STEM Challenge and accompanying activities are a play on snipe hunting to help you pull off an epic April Fool’s Day prank! This challenge is based on the mythical Lirpa Loof (April Fool spelled backward). This unit includes t

How to Catch a Monster by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is the whimsical tale of a playful monster eluding the many traps that a Ninja Master sets for him! The special holiday STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process, encouraging them to think outside of the box, while the ELA activities help students dig in and analyze the text! Not to mention, there's a super cute How-To Craft! This unit includes: • Literacy Activities Story Map, Character Traits, Brainstorming,

Ten months before the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair architects and engineers were clamoring for the chance to design a star attraction to rival the French Eiffel Tower. A daring engineer named George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. overcomes obstacles including money, mockery, and quicksand to create a wheel that has delighted fairgoers for over 100 years! The following companion includes multiple ELA activities for retelling, comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose/message, a

This mini-unit contains several activities that will help you teach fact partitioning shapes or basic fractions. They are great supplements to use along side curriculum resources, during math centers, or as remediation/enrichment activities. All of the pages are black line masters for easy and affordable printing. Laminate before you trim them out and you'll have resources to last for several years! Activities include: *Interactive Journal pages -Teacher side -Student side *Sort and paste *

This mini-unit contains several activities that will help you teach the associative property of addition. They are great supplements to use along side curriculum resources, during math centers, or as remediation/enrichment activities. All of the pages are black line masters for easy and affordable printing. Laminate before you trim them out and you'll have resources to last for several years! Activities include: *Interactive Journal pages -Teacher side -Student side *Roll and Cover *Task Car