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Iowa Core Literacy Comprehension Standard:

RL.1.2 → Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL.1.3 - Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Iowa Core Speaking & Listening Standard:
SL.1.2 - Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

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Iowa Core Language and Literacy Standard

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Iowa Core Language and Literacy Standard

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W.1.8 → With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question

SS.1.8. - Identify students’ own cultural practices
and those of others within the community and
around the world.

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Iowa Core Literacy and Social Studies Standards

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Iowa Core Literacy and Social Studies Standards

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History:
SS.1.21 → Compare life in the past to life today within different communities and cultural groups, including indigenous communities.

Reading/Literacy:
RL.1.9 - Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
SL.1.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers.

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Iowa Core Literacy and Science Standards

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Iowa Core Literacy and Science Standards

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Plants
1-LS1-1 -Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Animals:
1-LS1-2 - Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Weather:
1-ESS1-2- Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

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Measurement System
1.MD.C.4 - Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

Geometry using their architecture
1.G.A.2 - Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.

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I can ask and answer questions about key details in a story.

I can re-tell and write about stories that I read with key details, including characters and main events.

I can demonstrate understanding about a lesson or message in a story.

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We will watch this introductory video explaining the elements of Fables that are important for us to understand before reading one for ourselves.

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I can pick out key details from informational sources about another culture.

I can use my experiences through music and videos to answer questions about another culture.

I can use information from a text to create something on my own.

I can compare/contrast my own culture from another country's culture using information from different sources.

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I can use a variety of sources to learn about how life was different in the past for the indigenous people of another country.

I can compare and contrast the experiences of the differing groups within the story.

I can discuss with my peers the differing perspectives of past groups from another country.

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I can ask and answer questions about important details in a story.

I can use materials to solve a human problem by demonstrating how plants and/or animals use their parts to help them survive.

I can describe the behavior or adaptation of a parent to help their offspring survive.

I can make observations at different times in the year about the amount of daylight during that season.

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I can measure objects with different measurement units.

I can compose 2D and 3D shapes to form a new shape/structure.

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We will read Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by award winner Kate Messner.
Giverny

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We will read this book about all of the animals that live "Down Under" in Australia!

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We will read Creature Features by Junior Library Guild Selection Winner Steve Jenkins.

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We will read Georgia Children's Book award Come On, Rain by Karen Hesse.

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Read/Observe (Australian Art by: Alex Kuskowski)

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Read/Observe (Australian Art by: Alex Kuskowski)

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We will be looking through this book about Australian art as a whole class! We will observe the different pictures of crafts throughout the book and read about the materials needed to see which ones we could create in our own classroom!

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This is Australia by Jiří Dvořák and Miroslav Sasek

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We will read this book about Australia all together as a class. Pay attention to some of the big buildings or structures that you see or read about in the book.

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As you watch this video think of all the different kinds of plants you like to eat. How do they grow?

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HOW TO START A GARDEN | Gardening for kids

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We will listen to/watch this read-aloud and animation of the Australian fable that has a hidden lesson/moral that we will identify.

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Why Koala Has a Stumpy Tail (Animated Stories for Kids)

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Watch this video about Australian accents and speech. Then pair up with a peer and have fun practicing speaking in your best Australian accent!

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Watch this video, which is an introduction & overview of the history of Australia! You will also learn about Australia's environment, wildlife, sports teams, and famous people. Most importantly, you will learn about the history behind the "Aboriginal Australians" and the English settlers.

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Think about how the animals special features help them survive in their habitat.

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We will listen to this Inches, Feet and Yards Song to get a better idea of the differences between the units of measurement.

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Inches, Feet and Yards Song | Measurement Song | Customary Units

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"Sorry Sorry" written by Anne Kerr and illustrated by Marda Pitt.

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After getting a general overview about the history of the aboriginal people and the first settlers through the video we watched, we will now read this book about the real relationship and interactions between these groups during the beginning of Australia.

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Watch this video about the seasons in Australia and notice how they are different from our seasons!

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This song "True Blue Wonders" celebrates the beautiful country of Australia and features the awesome sounds of a didgeridoo imitating the Australian animals that we read about.  The names of the Australian animals are sung in Indigenous languages.

Instructions:
Listen to this native Australian song and then write in your notebook:

- One thing you learned about Australia from the song

- One way that Australia seems different than your    culture/country

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Australian Children's Song - True Blue Wonders

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Instructions:
1. After watching the video and reading the book about the relationship between the native people and the English settlers of Australia, choose one group to write from the perspective of. (Either the natives or the settlers)

2. In your notebooks, take on the perspective of the group that you chose, and write about what you think life was like for them in the past, based on the key details the book gave you. You have 10 minutes to write as much as you can come up with from that group's perspective.

3. Then, partner with a person in your class that chose to write from the opposite group's perspective, and then take turns reading aloud what you wrote. Talk about how life was different for the two groups.

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For each book that was read, answer the question below in your science notebooks and then share your answer with a partner!

Up in the Garden Down in the Dirt-
What I would plant in my own garden after reading the story?
We will discuss the unique characteristics plants have.

Creature Features-
What are some ways that animals special features help them survive?
Then we will discuss the features animals native to Australia have that help them survive.

Come on, Rain-
What do you think the seasons are like in Australia? Tell a partner everything you know about seasons and daylight.

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You will need:
-pencil
-notebook
-ruler or yardstick

Instructions:
1. Pick one measurement unit used in the song we listened to: choose from inches, feet, or yards.
2. Now you will go around the classroom and measure different objects. Pick 3 objects to measure in the unit you chose. Use a ruler (inches/feet) or yard-stick (yard).
4. Make a chart of the objects you measure and what their measurements are.
3. You will then get with a partner and share your chart and see how your charts are similar or different.

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Now after measuring some objects, we will watch this video as a whole class, showing us the different kinds of 3D shapes that we will create in the next activity.

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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3D Shapes Song | Shapes for kids | The Singing Walrus

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Based on the art book that we read, we are going to create an Australian instrument called a Digereedoo using toilet paper/paper towel rolls!
You can choose to either use paper towel rolls (bigger) or toilet paper rolls (smaller).
Instructions:
1. If you choose paper towel rolls, get 3 paper towel rolls from the front of the class.
2. If you choose toilet paper rolls, get 5 rolls from the front of the class.
3. Bring all of your rolls to me, and I will tape them together for you.
4. Now you will get to color and decorate your instruments however you would like, using crayons/markers.
5. After everyone is done creating their instrument, we will get to play them together as a class.

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Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world. Rock painting was one of the traditional aboriginal art practices, so we will be painting our own rocks today!

Materials needed:
- small rocks
- paint brushes
- different colored washable paints
- water
- paper towels

Instructions:
1. Come to the front of the classroom to get your individual rock, paint, paintbrush, water cup, and paper towel. Take it back to your table with you.
2. Feel free to decorate and paint your rock however you desire.
3. Share with the class when you are finished!

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Now we get to create three-dimensional shapes to represent the architecture that we saw in the story we read about Australia! Lets look back to this page of the book where we see the large building called "Australia Square Tower". This building is a 3D shape called a cylinder. Using the template we linked below, we are going to create our own 3D cylinders out of paper.

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Up in the Garden Down in the Dirt-
You will plant a seed in a clear plastic cup. Over the course of the week, you will be in charge of watering the seeds and writing down observations about what changes each day. These observations can include pictures and sentences.

Instructions:

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Creature Features-
You will use play dough to create an animal (think of the animals from the book or from the video).

Instructions:

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This is the template we will use to create our cylinders.

Materials needed:
- printed template
- scissors
- tape
- coloring utensils

Instructions:
1. You will each decorate your own cylinder from the template. Color it or draw on it to create your own personalized "building" like the one we saw in the book!
2. Cut out your decorated cylinders.
3. Then, glue the individual shapes together to create your cylinder.

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Come on, Rain-
You will create a seasons poster!

Instructions:
1. Divide your piece of paper into four sections.
2. Label each section with one of the seasons.
3. Draw a picture to represent that season and write a sentence describing that season in each of the four sections.

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Up in the Garden Down in the Dirt-
You will be responsible for drawing a plant and explaining how its unique characteristics can be applied to problems.

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You will match the 3D shape to it's correct name, based on what you learned through the Shape Song/Video!

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Instructions:
You will get with a partner and discuss these questions regarding the read-aloud of the fable you just watched:

- How do you think Kangaroo felt at the end of the story?
- How do you think Koala felt?
- Why?
- Do you think the story is trying to teach us a lesson? If so, what is it?

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Instructions:
You will write in your notebooks for 5 minutes from the perspective of one of the characters. You can choose to take the perspective of either the Koala or the Kangaroo.

Some things you can write about:

- What you think that character would be feeling in the story

-  What characteristics you think they have

-  What you think they would say or think about what is happening in the story

Happy Writing! Write until the timer goes off!

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For the hands-on art portion of the lesson, you will be creating a Character Craft! There are two character options: Koala and Kangaroo. You will choose the character that you chose to write about in your writing station (the perspective taking journaling activity that you did above). Whichever character you wrote about is the one that you will be creating in your art project. Below are the instructions for both character crafts.

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KOALA CRAFT:
If you took the perspective of the koala in your writing, you will be doing this craft!

Materials needed:

Colored cardstock or construction paper

Scissors

Glue

Pencil

Printed Koala template

Instructions:
1. Trace your hand on colored paper and cut that out.
2. Cut out the Koala template for the face. Glue it to your hand cut out (like shown in the picture above).
3. Cut out a tree branch and a couple leaves from your green and brown cardstock or construction paper. Glue them together and then glue your koala onto the tree.
4. On the "fingers" of your hand cut-out (the body of the koala), write some of this character's characteristics or traits that are shown in the story.

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KANGAROO CRAFT:
If you took the perspective of the kangaroo in your writing, you will be doing this craft!

Materials needed:
- brown and white colored washable paint
-black washable marker
- colored cardstock or construction paper

Instructions:
1. Choose a color of cardstock/construction paper.
2. Have the teacher paint the bottom of your foot with brown paint, and place it onto the piece of paper to create the kangaroo body (as shown in the picture above).
3. Wash off feet.
4. Use brown paint to add details like a tail and ears and hands/legs to your kangaroo. Use the white paint to add details like the eyes and stomach. Use the black marker to add any final details you would like.
5. On the piece of paper, write some characteristics or traits of the kangaroo that you learned through the story we read.

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You will fill out this graphic organizer based on the fable we read "Why Koala Has a Stumpy Tail".
Instructions:
In your own words, I want you to retell the beginning, middle, and end of the story  in a couple sentences. Then you will write what you think the "moral" of the story is. Remember the moral is just the lesson that the story teaches you!

- You will be working on this on your own and turning it into me when you are finished!

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You will answer these 6 questions on this worksheet, based on what you learned about through the Measurement Song/Video and our activity measuring objects around the classroom!

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You will answer these 2 essential questions based on the videos we watched and activities we did about the Australian culture!

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Based on the variety of sources we learned from about Australia's history and past people, compare and contrast the Aboriginal Australian indigenous people and the English settlers. Write at least 3 different things down in each section of the Venn Diagram.

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Creature Features-
I will draw an animal and an adaptation that they have. I will then explain the adaptation and how it helps the animal.

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Come on, Rain-
I will present one of the seasons on my poster I made to the class and describe the season.

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We will play this Kahoot as a whole class to see how much you already know about Australia!