Storybook STEM {January} – Winter STEM Activities – Snowflake Bentley

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SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY unit is also sold separately at the link below:

SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY STORYBOOK STEM

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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.

• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
• Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
• Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft
• Snowballs by Lois Ehlert

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.

January Storybook STEM contains the following:

Week 1: (Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Setting anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Apostrophes anchor chart
• Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Symmetry
• STEM Challenge: Paper Snowflakes (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher charts, and student recording booklet)

Week 2: (Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Making Connections anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Antonyms anchor chart
• Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Timelines
• STEM Challenge: Word Tower (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)

Week 3: (Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft)

• Comprehension bookmark
• *Compare and Contrast anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• *Proper Nouns anchor chart
• *Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• *Math Connection Anchor Chart – Miles
• *STEM Challenge: Animal Feeder (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)

Week 4: (Snowballs by Lois Ehlert)

• Comprehension bookmark
• Punctuation anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet
• Commas anchor chart
• Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, Collaborative Scoot, and student recording sheets)
• Math Connection Anchor Chart – Temperature
• STEM Challenge: Snowball Friend (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet)