Cross Curricular Literacy Centers by Melissa Kessler https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7 First Grade and Iowa en-us 2021-06-25 01:43:02 UTC 2025-04-18 16:25:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Iowa Core Literacy and Math Standards. kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624575946 RL.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

1.G.A.1: Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.

]]> 2021-06-25 01:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624575946 Iowa Core Literacy and Social Studies Standards. kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624576242 SS.1.5: Take group or individual action to help address local, regional, and/or global problems.

W. 1.8: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.]]> 2021-06-25 01:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624576242 Iowa Core Literacy and Technology Standards. kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624576544 21.K-2.TL.5:  Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand and practice appropriate and safe uses of technology.
  • Understand that stealing information and things others have created is the same as stealing tangible items.
  • Be aware of why it is unsafe for students to provide others with information about themselves.
  • Demonstrate awareness of the importance of communicating with adults about things that might concern them.
  • Understand why technology is useful in helping them complete a task.
  • Use technology to explore personal interests.
  • Demonstrate to others how to use technology tools in ways that assist, rather than prevent, others from learning.

RL.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

RL.1.1o: With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.
]]> 2021-06-25 01:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624576544 Iowa Core Literacy and Science Standards. kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624578955 1-LS3-1: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

RL.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

RL.1.1o: With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.]]> 2021-06-25 01:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624578955 Iowa Core Literacy and Art Standards. kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624579577 VA: Cr2.1.1a: Explore uses of
materials and tools to create works of art or design.

RL.1.3: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

]]> 2021-06-25 01:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624579577 Objectives: kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624580336 I can build shapes such as triangles, squares and rectangles using a geoboard.

I can answer a question about details in a book I just listened to.]]> 2021-06-25 01:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624580336 Objectives: kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624580801
I can identify ways to help reduce the water pollution in Iowa. 

I can display my understandings through drawing my ideas. ]]> 2021-06-25 01:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624580801 Objectives: kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624581023 I can understand safe internet behavior.

I can know when I need to tell an adult about activity occurring on my device that isn't safe.

I can use my devices in a responsible and safe way to learn more about the world and the things that I am interested in.]]> 2021-06-25 01:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624581023 Objectives: kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624581293 I can identify way that baby animals resembled their parents.

I can illustrate ways that I look like my parents but also how I look different.]]> 2021-06-25 01:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624581293 Objectives: kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624581552 I can use paint to make an art project inspired by the book The Dot.

I can write about how Vashti learned how to create art.]]> 2021-06-25 01:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624581552 Read kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624586969 Tangled by. Anne Miranda
Genre: Children's Humor Fiction

]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624586969 Read kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587220 We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom  
Genre: Children's American Folk Tales and Myths
 

]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587220 Read kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587268 Clicker the Cat by Kyla Cullinane
Genre: Children's Nonfiction

]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587268 Read kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587344 Look at the Zoo Babies by Elizabeth Schafer
Genre: Children's Nonfiction

]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587344 Read kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587404
The Dot by. Peter H. Reynolds
Genre: Children’s Fiction]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587404 Write kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587487 Answer the following questions: 
How did the shapes escape from the jungle gym?  
Look at this picture of Iowa on the map. What shape does it look like to you?
Draw a picture of the shape of Iowa.]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587487 Write kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587588 Children will write a step by step plan for reducing water pollution in water ways near their home. ]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587588 Write kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587658 Using Google Docs, type out three rules that you need to remember for internet safety.]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587658 Write kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587718 Answer the following questions:
Who do you look like more, your mom or your dad?  How?

Do you look the same now as you did when you were born?

Do you have a sibling? Do you look like them?]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587718 Write kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587780 At the beginning of the story, Vashti did not think she was an artist. What helped her realize she could be an artist?]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587780 Watch kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587860 Read along with the video as Anne Miranda reads her book Tangled]]> 2021-06-25 01:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624587860 Watch kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588328 2021-06-25 02:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588328 Create kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588609 Using Geoboards, students will create the shapes from the story with rubber bands, explore the concept of shape by seeing what they can make with the geoboards and see if they can use the geoboards to recreate the general shape of Iowa.]]> 2021-06-25 02:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588609 Create kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588671 Children will create a plan of showing how they will help reduce the water pollution.]]> 2021-06-25 02:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588671 Watch kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588761 Read along with the video as Kyla Cullinane as she reads her book Clicker the Cat.]]> 2021-06-25 02:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588761 Play kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588869 Learn all about internet safety through finding your way through Interland in this fun, interactive game.]]> 2021-06-25 02:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624588869 Create kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624589133 Using paper and crayons or markers, draw a picture of your family. Make sure that you show your similarities and differences.]]> 2021-06-25 02:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624589133 Watch kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624589272 Read along with this video of The Dot being read aloud.]]> 2021-06-25 02:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624589272 Create kesslmac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624589341 After reading The Dot and watching the video about Iowan artist Grant Wood, use paint to create a piece of artwork. Choose between painting a picture like either Grant Wood or Vashti painted. Don't forget to "sign it" when you're done!

Example of a The Dot inspired painting:]]> 2021-06-25 02:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1624589341 Watch and Play baggettc2 https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625648006 Watch and play "Name the Shape Game" with your group.

]]> 2021-06-25 16:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625648006 Watch baggettc2 https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625657071 Watch this video about the famous Iowan artist, Grant Wood.]]> 2021-06-25 16:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625657071 Watch koenibac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625896109 Robins are native to Iowa. How does this mother robin look like her babies? How does she look different?]]> 2021-06-25 20:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625896109 Explore koenibac https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625899000 Find Iowa on Google Earth. Can you find your town? Your street?  What all can you see by just using the internet? 

]]> 2021-06-25 20:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1625899000 Example of a Grant Wood style landscape painting baggettc2 https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1629313524 2021-06-29 02:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kesslmac/x8gfohri9o5uu5s7/wish/1629313524