First Grade
Lessons and Resources - June 8th-June 12th
Focus: You Matter by Christian Robinson
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Activity 1:
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Activity 2:
Create: Follow along with author and illustrator Christian Robinson to draw a T.rex.
These directions are after the story so make sure to keep watching! Use paper and pencil you have at home.
If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Create: Follow along with author and illustrator Christian Robinson to draw a T.rex.
These directions are after the story so make sure to keep watching! Use paper and pencil you have at home.
If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Additional Resources:
Watch: Making Space with Christian Robinson on YouTube.
Read: Check out Christian Robinson's other books. Last Stop on Market Street, Gaston, Antoinette, and School's First Day of School are Zapata student favorites!
Lessons and Resources - May 25th-June 5th
Focus: The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Activity 1:
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Activity 2:
Directions: Look at the before and after pictures of The 606 and The High Line below.
What connections can you make between The Curious Garden and these real places in Chicago and New York?
What looks the same? Can you spot the train tracks in the before pictures? What looks different?
Directions: Look at the before and after pictures of The 606 and The High Line below.
What connections can you make between The Curious Garden and these real places in Chicago and New York?
What looks the same? Can you spot the train tracks in the before pictures? What looks different?
The 606 - Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago, Illinois
The High Line, New York, New York
Additional Resources:
Read About Plants:
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Plants
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Plants
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!
Lessons and Resources - May 11th-May22nd
Focus: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Activity 1:
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Watch a time-lapse of a monarch caterpillar transforming into a chrysalis and emerging as an adult to take its first flight.
Activity 2:
Additional Resources:
Read About Plants and Butterflies:
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Plants or Butterflies
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Plants or Butterflies
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!
Lessons and Resources - April 27th-May 8th
Focus: The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo by Laura Murray
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Watch: Video Read Aloud
Click here to listen to author Laura Murray read other favorite Gingerbread books we read together during library class.
Activity 1:
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
No need to print! Use paper you have at home. If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Activity 2:
Directions: Match the description to the right animal.
Directions: Match the description to the right animal.
Description:
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Animal:
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If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Additional Resources:
Read About the Zoo:
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Zoo
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Zoo
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!
Watch:
PBS KIDS Puzzle - A Day at the Zoo
McKayla loves solving puzzles at the zoo and your child can solve them too! Together with your child, watch this new PBS KIDS puzzle story and solve the picture clues to figure out which animals McKayla and and her grandmother will see on their special trip to the zoo!
PBS KIDS Puzzle - A Day at the Zoo
McKayla loves solving puzzles at the zoo and your child can solve them too! Together with your child, watch this new PBS KIDS puzzle story and solve the picture clues to figure out which animals McKayla and and her grandmother will see on their special trip to the zoo!
Pinkalicious & Peterrific Monkeying Around at the Zoo
The Pinkerton family is heading to the Teddy Bear Picnic at the zoo when Pinkalicious's Teddy Bear gets swiped by a mischievous monkey! The family chases the monkey around the zoo but needs to figure out how to get Henrietta the teddy bear back!
The Pinkerton family is heading to the Teddy Bear Picnic at the zoo when Pinkalicious's Teddy Bear gets swiped by a mischievous monkey! The family chases the monkey around the zoo but needs to figure out how to get Henrietta the teddy bear back!
Lessons and Resources - April 13th-24th
Focus: LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems!
Website: The Kennedy Center - Education Artist-in-Residence at Home
Watch:
Website: The Kennedy Center - Education Artist-in-Residence at Home
Watch:
More episodes, please! Click on The Kennedy Center - Education Artist-in-Residence at Home website and use the arrows at the side.
Create:
If you can, take a picture of student work to email to Ms. Hlousek at [email protected].
Read Favorite Mo Willems Books:
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Mo Willems
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!
Website: Scholastic BookFlix eBooks Username: Learning20 Password: Clifford Search: Mo Willems
Each fiction book is paired with a related nonfiction book. Click on the picture of a book pair below. Read both pairs!