Arts and Learning Kids City Schools

1st-2nd Grade

Arts-Integrated Math

EpisodeWatch HereWatch on VimeoConnected ObjectiveSEL Connections
Tap Dancing Our Way through Two-Digit Numbers!WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use tap dancing steps to express 10s and 1s and connect movement to place value charts, number bonds, and math manipulatives.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Singing Solutions: Music and Word ProblemsWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use music dynamics to help identify key words in math problems.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Singing is Commutative (and Associative!)WATCH ON VIMEOAddition Properties are explained and reinforced through song lyrics. VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Coin Designers: Change is Gonna ComeWATCH ON VIMEOStudents design coins representing 10s and 1s to further their understanding of skip counting and bundling to make 10.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Ones, Tens, and Hundreds: Show Me the MoneyWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will create math manipulatives by making play money and use it to understand the place value chart up to 100.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Singing Scales and Number PathsWATCH ON VIMEOThe progression of notes in a major scale is compared to a number path. The number path is used to understand how subtraction and addition fit together when a number is broken into parts.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSMindfulness
Emoji MathWATCH ON VIMEOConnected Objective: By drawing simple shapes, students will design icons and use illustrations to solve for unknown factors in word problems.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Improv Games and Creating CharactersWATCH ON VIMEOUsing improv Ti the builder becomes a character who can measure objects using smaller objects.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Using Improv to Solve Math Problems: Making 10 FriendsWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use improv techniques to improve their math skills with number bonds and the arrow method.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Using Improv to Measure and Compare!WATCH ON VIMEOImprovisational techniques and character traits are employed to measure objects and compare lengths.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Going to Great Lengths!WATCH ON VIMEOStudents learn how to use their measuring skills to frame and display art work, and consider how measuring a line is similar to the concept of line in visual art.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Constructive Costumes!WATCH ON VIMEOThrough Visual Art techniques, students will create dinosaur costumes by using measurement and addition.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Acting out Numbers: Forming Characters, Forming NumbersWATCH ON VIMEOImprov games, using voice, body, and dialogue to create characters that practice writing numbers in word form, unit form, and standard form.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSocial Awareness
Array CityWATCH ON VIMEO"Students will create their own city using drawing, and collage by building arrays and splitting their arrays into component parts."VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Word Problem DetectivesWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use improv to explore the character traits of a good detective use them to decode word problems.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Learning Math Through Shadow PuppetsWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use puppetry to add and subtract on a number line.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf-Awareness, Self-Management
Acting Out Number SignsWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will learn about greater than, less than, and equal to and use puppetry to compare two digit numbers.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf-Awareness, Self-Management

Arts-Integrated Literacy

EpisodeWatch HereWatch on VimeoConnected ObjectiveSEL Connections
Ruby Bridges: The Strength of CharacterWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will learn how to connect frozen dance poses to character traits of themselves and Civil Rights leaders.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSocial Awareness, Responsible Decision Making
There's a Time for Work and a Time for PlayWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use theatrical storytelling as a basis for analyzing text.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf- Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision Making
Dig Deep: Finding the Virtues in All of UsWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use theatrical storytelling as a tool to pull out key details and the central message of a story.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSRelationship Skills
What Just Happened? Finding the Central MessageWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use theatrical storytelling to identify the sequence of a story and determine its central message.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf- Awareness, Self-Management
Superhero Comics & Parts of a Story WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will create comics with illustrations that represent parts of the story including characters, setting and events.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Your Words Matter: Playing with Words and ArtWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will engage in a word and illustration game where they learn how word choice and artistic choices can change the meaning of the piece of writing or art work. Students will learn about abstract expressionism, illustrative text and descriptive language. VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
What’s Your Point?WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will explore and understand Point of view in photography and writing.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Friendship is Everywhere!WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will contrast and compare songs and texts about friendship and find the common theme.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSocial Awareness, Relationship Skills
Tableaus, Songs and Octopi!WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will build tableaus to retell the sequence of events in songs and stories.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
Dogs and Cats we Love to Love!WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will learn about the components of strong writing in composing a letter or a song.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management
What Goes Around Comes Around: Lessons in Fables and FolktalesWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use theatrical storytelling to identify the central message in two traditional fables from different parts of the world.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSRelationship Skills, Responsible Decision Making
Using Your Words: Expressing Big Feelings with Appropriate LanguageWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use dialogue and voice to express themselves differently based on the audience and the setting.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management, Relationship Skills
Arguably the Best Show Ever! How to Make Your PointWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use theater warm up and exercises to explore the components of a well reasoned and supported argument.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSRelationship Skills, Responsible Decision Making
Creative CinderellaWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will create a story map to outline the story of Bigfoot Cinderrrrella and use the information to design and create a board game.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Social Awareness
Everyone’s a Critic: Looking at Van Gogh and PicassoWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will compare and contrast two paintings and use the collected observations to create and perform a short theatrical play. VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Social Awareness
How Was Your Day?WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will analyze text describing the lives of children in Mexico and Canada and use theater techniques to compare and contrast their observations.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Social Awareness
Virtual Feast!WATCH ON VIMEOStudents will analyze a fictional text and use theater and props to examine how meals create community.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Social Awareness
House PartyWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will create, write, and act out different rhyming sentences by using their bodies, knowledge of isolating beginning sounds, and imagination.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Social Awareness
This Because of That: Acting out ConjunctionsWATCH ON VIMEOStudents will use conjunctions to create sentences and use theater techniques to act them out.VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONSSelf Awareness, Self Management