Storybook STEM {February} – Valentine’s Day, Groundhog Day STEM Activities

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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.

• Groundhog Day by Gail Gibbons
• The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond
• If I Were President by Catherine Stier
• You Think It’s Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

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.

February Storybook STEM contains the following:

Week 1: (Groundhog Day by Gail Gibbons)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Text Features anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Verb or Noun anchor chart
• Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Months of the Year
• STEM Challenge: Shadow Clock (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher charts, and student recording booklet)

Week 2: (The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Illustrations anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Irregular Verbs anchor chart
• Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Slides, Flips, and Turns
• STEM Challenge: Waterproof Valentine (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)

Week 3: (If I Were President by Catherine Stier)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Feelings anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Text-to-World Connections anchor chart
• Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Budgeting
• STEM Challenge: My White House (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)

Week 4: (You Think It’s Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Adjectives anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• First Person Point of View anchor chart
• Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Counting Coins
• STEM Challenge: Tooth Fairy Hoverboard (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)