CONTENT CONNECTION WORKSHEET Grade 1
Theme Title: FOLLOW ME
Theme #1
Lesson #1
Content Connection SOCIAL STUDIES
Essential Questions
 What are some ways we can show something about ourselves through music, dance, or
drama?
 How can we express our interests through other things, such as sports or hobbies?
Resources
Main Selection and Leveled Books
Genre: Nonfiction
 Tag
 Let's Tap
Poetry: Wag, Hop, Hide!
Big Book Read Aloud: Go, Go, Go!
Big Book of Rhymes and Poems:
 Kids on the move
 If you’re Happy and You Know It
Read-Aloud Anthology: Jamaica Tag
Along
Leveled Readers
 Let’s Go! (Below-Level)
 Let’s Help! (On-Level)
 A Hat for Pat (Advanced)
 We Can Help (ELL)
 Decodable Book: Max Cat
Other Resources
Modern Fantasy:
 Angelia Ballerina
 Noisy Nora
Core Program Vocabulary (Tier II)
 bothered
 distance
 form
 attention
 perform
 supportive
Content Vocabulary (Tier III)
 cooperation
 peer
 consequence
 respect
 friend
Comprehension Focus Strategy
 Summarizing
 Comparing and Contrasting
Comprehension Focus Skill
 predictions
Theme Objectives
Children are given opportunities to develop their listening and speaking skills. As they
work on their theme project, they can be helped to respond appropriately and courteously to directions and questions, making
contributions to group discussions
 use language, volume, and rate appropriate for the audience, purpose, and
occasion
 use nonverbal communication effectively to clarify and support what they say,
using props and pictures.
Connecting Social Studies Standard
Objective
Standard 1 (Culture):
Objective 1
Students will recognize and describe how
Recognize and describe examples of
schools and neighborhoods are both similar
differences within school and
and different.
neighborhood.
 b. Share stories, folk tales, art, music,
and dance inherent in neighborhood
and community traditions.
 c. Recognize and demonstrate respect
for the differences within one’s
community (e.g. play, associations,
activities, friendships).
Objective 1
Standard 2 (Citizenship):
Describe and demonstrate appropriate
social skills necessary for working in a
group.
a. Describe behaviors that contribute to
cooperation within groups at school and in a
neighborhood.
b. Discuss the roles and responsibilities of
being a member of a group.
c. Participate in a group activity modeling
appropriate group behavior.
f. Communicate positive feelings and ideas of self
(e.g., positive self image, good friend, helper,
honest).
Intended Learning Outcomes
Friends dance and play together in a cooperative and respectful way that will enable them to
enjoy activities as a group.
Social Studies Activities t0 Develop Social Studies Concepts
Invite a Tap Dance Teacher to come into the classroom and teach the children about tap.
Teach the children to play tag.
Talk about how to show respect for each other by following the rules and making sure that
everyone gets a turn in games.
Talk about following directions and cooperating to learn something new in dance.