Grades PreK-K
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PreK + Kindergarten
Arts-Integrated Math
| Episode | Watch Here | Watch on Vimeo | Connected Objective | Academic + Arts Standards and Extensions | SEL Connections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One, Two, Three, Draw What You See! | WATCH ON VIMEO | By the end of this lesson, students will be able to use different shapes and lines to draw from their real life surroundings to create a counting book to practice numbers and counting. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
| Squish and Build Numbers | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use clay techniques while building with paper clay to explore counting objects in different ways and make observations about numbers. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
| Musical Counting: Keeping it 100 | WATCH ON VIMEO | Use music to represent 1’s and 10’s while skip counting. Using music to help students recall the patterns of skip counting to 10 and to 100. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| Getting Your Ducks in a Row | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use music, repeating patterns, and visualizations of math word problems to understand how the counting sequence helps us keep track of quantities when we count. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| The Treasure Hunt | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use music, song patterns, and story problem scenarios to build number sense and understand how to count on from a given number. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| Pattern Play | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to recognize numbers in pattern and to connect the four elements of Visual Art to pattern making. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| Searching for Numbers | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to identify and write the numbers 0-10 while visually identifying the correct number of shapes for each number. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| Flower Power Numbers | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to use color combinations and drawing strategies to decompose numbers and record expressions that match their drawings. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| House of 10 | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to use drawing strategies and color to discover the combinations that make 10. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| Take 5! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Using music, sounds, and their ears, students will explore the combinations that make 5 with addition and subtraction. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Portions of this lesson are in Spanish. Self Awareness. | |
| Singing through Six with Squirrels and Cookies! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to model decompositions of 6 using a story situation, objects, and number bonds. Students will be able to connect music with feelings and the idea that more = happy and less = sad. Students will be able to break apart 6 using elements of music that connect to feelings. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
| You Can Count on Music! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to count objects and instrument sounds to match the numbers 1 through 5 in order to use the objects and instrument sounds to create number groupings that equal 5: 4+1=5, 1+4=5, 3+2=5, 2+3=5. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
| Clapping Rhythm, Singing, and Subtraction, Oh My! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to use objects and drawings to learn subtraction through singing and rhythm clapping. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
| Mystery Strings and Counting Things! (the musical) | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to count animals using song and rhythm. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness |
Arts-Integrated Literacy
| Episode | Watch Here | Watch on Vimeo | Connected Objective | Academic + Arts Standards and Extensions | SEL Connections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning to Love | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to use elements of theatre to to understand how and why characters interact over the course of a text. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| From Seeds to Flowers: Breaking Down Stories to Get to the Root | WATCH ON VIMEO | Through storytelling and song, students will be able to identify main idea and key details in books and virtues activities. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness: Artsplosion is in Spanish | |
| Flower Garden and Rainbow Garden: Same but Different | WATCH ON VIMEO | By the end of this lesson, students will be able to use their VIBE (voice, imagination, body and expression) to compare and contrast the events of two different stories. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Creating and Imagining the Friendly Dragonfly | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to know, understand and recall a Story Map while actively engaging in the creation of an imagined story. Students will be able to use Story Mapping to create and act out their own stories. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Feet, Fingers, Elbows! Oh My! Ask WHY!? | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to describe the relationship between illustrations and the messages they convey by using imaginative play with materials to create illustrations using their hands and feet! | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Popsicle Dreams and These Three Things… | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will create popsicle stick puppets to explore major events, setting, and identify characters in the book “The Mouse and the Moon” . They will create a puppet show to act out the beginning, middle, and end of the book together. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Sometimes I Wish I Was an Elephant | WATCH ON VIMEO | By the end of this lesson, students will be able to use the elements of songwriting to demonstrate their knowledge of understanding the authors approach when writing a text to convey meaning. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| Giraffes Can Play Music at Home! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use language and elements of music including fast & slow tempo, loud and quiet dynamics, and short and long sounds, to create different musical patterns to demonstrate their understanding of a text. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| My Neighborhood is Amazing! | WATCH ON VIMEO | By the end of this lesson students will be able to create a visual storyboard using visual art elements and concepts to identify the main idea and summarize key details. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| All Are Welcome Here | WATCH ON VIMEO | Scholars will explore the definition of unknown words through the creation of a collage to exhibit their newfound understanding of those words. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Self Management | |
| Words About Words: Singing Songs for Different Texts | WATCH ON VIMEO | By the end of this lesson, students will be able to learn and sing songs to help them identify different types of text. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| This is My Point of View | WATCH ON VIMEO | By the end of this lesson, students will be able to use fine arts concepts such as acting, singing, visual arts to tell a story from different POV’s | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| Animals Around the World! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Through guided practice and support, students will be able to use elements of theater (costume and body movement) to embody animals from different continents and be able to write an opinion piece about their favorite animal from knowledge learned through module text and discussion of animals. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Transportation Tunes! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will be able to identify, describe and compare forms of transportation and communication and how they have changed in America over time using the elements of music: tempo (fast and slow) and pitch (high and low). | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| ButterFLY VIBEs | WATCH ON VIMEO | "By the end of this lesson, students will be able to use the elements of theater (VIBE) to sequence through a story. " | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness | |
| Storytelling with Anansi and Beats! | WATCH ON VIMEO | By the end of the lesson, students will understand the origins and importance of storytelling, and be able to use their imagination to create an original song and soundscape to retell stories they already know and original stories. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Social Awareness |