Storybook STEM Activities {May} – End of the Year – Where the Wild Things Are

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Created by Brooke Brown and Katie King, Storybook STEM provides early childhood teachers with weekly all-in-one units to cover essential skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, math, science, and engineering.

Four units are included to accompany favorite seasonal children’s books, with supplemental STEM challenges for each and differentiated literacy and math options for Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade.

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff
• Toasting Marshmallows by Kristine O’Connell George
• When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore

Each read aloud and unit can be completed in the form of mini lessons throughout the week, or within a 2.5 hour block on one day of the week, such as Maker Mondays or STEM Fridays. Storybook STEM also provides a simple and comprehensive option for substitute teachers.

May Storybook STEM contains the following:

Week 1: (Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Text-to-Self-Connections anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Making Inferences anchor chart and student extension
• Vocabulary (Guess a Doodle with picture cards, interactive games, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Elapsed Time
• STEM Challenge: Float Your Boat (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher charts, and student recording booklet)
• STEM Maker Task Cards

Week 2: (I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Text to Text Connections anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Adjectives anchor chart and student extension
• Vocabulary (Guess a Doodle with picture cards, interactive games, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Equal Groups
• STEM Challenge: Dream Room (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)
• STEM Maker Task Cards

Week 3: (Toasting Marshmallows by Kristine O’Connell George)

• Comprehension bookmark
• 5 Poetry focuses: Imagery, Repetition, Personification, Shape Poems, Original Poems
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Tree Rings
• STEM Challenge: Tabletop Tent (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)
• STEM Maker Task Cards

Week 4: (When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Inferencing anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Imaginative Writing anchor chart and student activities
• Vocabulary (Guess a Doodle with picture cards, interactive games, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Composing with 3D Shapes
• STEM Challenge: Dragon’s Castle (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)
• STEM Maker Task Cards