The 1st grade teachers read Boxitects & assigned a cardboard design challenge at home.
My hallway duty spot turned into a showcase of creativity, and a flood of proud students eager to share every detail.
Family support ❤️ ♻️ resourceful materials = meaningful learning
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A day of learning and having fun. Today, our PreK scholars used cardboard boxes to create 3 houses and 1 farmhouse. After listening to the book BOXITECTS. They did a great job 👏🏾. Way to go, club prek
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FCRR loved being part of Storybook Village! Families enjoyed a reading of Boxitects, brought the story to life through hands-on building, and connected with us in the Storybook Garden to explore reading resources. 📚✨
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FCRR joined nearly 7,000 visitors at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Open House to celebrate this year’s literature theme.
Families explored curiosity in action with our Boxitects activity, inspired by the book Boxitects, where stories and STEM come together. 📚🔬
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FCRR had a great time at WFSU’s Be My Neighbor Day! 🧡
Families explored early education resources, enjoyed games, and met Daniel Tiger 🐯. Our "Boxitects" activity blended literacy STEM—and one child even built a housing complex. A future architect in our midst! 🏗️✨
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29 Oct 2025
Kindergarten is learned a life skill “Righty Tighty and Lefty Loosey,” with @Makedo!!! Boxitects is a great book about teamwork and cardboard engineering!!! #stem #engineering #makedo #boxitects #makerspace #makersgonnamake @SVViperPride @DVUSD
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3 Sep 2025
In STEM class, our students are diving into the world of Boxitects! 📦💡 Inspired by the story, they’re building their own creations — from animals to houses — but with one big challenge: each design must be at least 8 inches tall! 🏗️
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11 Jun 2025
June is Caribbean American Heritage month! Celebrate Caribbean heritage, community, literacy and play with Prospect Park Alliance Maple Street Afterschool for a family friendly story reading of "Boxitects" at the Boathouse on Sunday, June 22 from 2–5 pm: prospectpark.org/caribbean
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8 Mar 2025
Wrapping up #ocsbSTEAM week with Boxitects! After reading the book, students transformed their boxes into creative everyday structures—houses, cars, gaming devices, and playground equipment—using tools and imagination.@StMonicaOCSB #ocsbBeInnovative
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22 Jan 2025
🏗️📦 A delightful story from our EYFS Construction booklist - BOXITECTS: booksfortopics.com/book/boxi…
✅ A story about imaginative building with boxes
✅ Themes of friendship, creativity & teamwork
✅ STEM links
✅ Also appears on our Materials booklist
✅ Downloadable resources
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9 Jan 2025
For Girls STEAM Team this week, we are starting a new project that involves designing & repurposing old shoeboxes to something functional.
Our T-Librarian read “Boxitects” to the Ss to get them thinking about the task.
We love using our beautiful LLC space when we co-teach! 🙌🏽
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2 Nov 2024
Kudos to our @ELPASO_ISD artists who created cardboard art inspired by the children's book The Boxitects and the teen entrepreneurs @CardboardSuperH Their artwork will be displayed @LaNube915 to inspire Maker Mindset!
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24 Sep 2024
Today, we read Boxitects by Kim Smith and Not A Box by Antoinette Portis. We talked about creativity, imagination, and teamwork! 📦 #prek #bces @JoniRoni01 @BCESMustangs @MsBryant19 @Creativecurric
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18 Sep 2024
We started out Community Read this week with the book Boxitects! For prereading we used a mystery bag with a cardboard object inside. We shared what we thought it could be! It always awesome to how kids view things! #dcdsreads
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26 Jun 2024
Inspired by the children’s book ✨Boxitects ✨ by Kim Smith, our boxitect artists created adorable Miniature Box Scenes from recycled material! 💚♻️ What would you create with a box? 🤔 Great work, eco-artists! 🙌🏻 #knma #boxitect #recycle #recycledart #artists #summerartcamp
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5 Jun 2024
🎂🍰Today's #SELSpotlight is Baker Makers, a STEAM-centered picture book about letting go of perfection from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Kim Smith (@Kimdraws), creator of Boxitects (another favorite of ours!) Ask #YourBNRep for more information today!! 🍰🎂
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24 May 2024
I forgot to post this last week when we finished. BOXITECTS…last project of the 2023-24 school year @ElementaryHogg @DISD_Libraries @ProjectReadDISD #boxitects
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12 May 2024
@kespanthers are having fun while working hard coding mice (1st), learning how to use mice (prek/k), building coasters (3rd), being boxitects (2nd), & building then battling bots (4th & 5th)! @hayscisdSTEM
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24 Apr 2024
After reading the books ‘Not A Box’ and ‘Boxitects’ in preparation for our 3D Figure Recycling Big Build Project next week, Ss explored various recyclable materials & then created a plan using pictures & words. They included a list of 3D solids required to build their structure.
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23 Apr 2024
After reading the books ‘Not A Box’ and ‘Boxitects’ in preparation for our 3D Figure Recycling Big Build Project next week, Ss explored various recyclable materials & then created a plan using pictures & words. They included a list of 3D solids required to build their structure.
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