California ~ Grade 1

Song
Standard(s) Addressed
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 		 Music Standards

2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music

Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing
a varied repertoire of music.

Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills
2.1 Sing with accuracy in a developmentally appropriate range.
2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.
2.3 Play rhythmic ostinatos on classroom instruments.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions
Students...speak with a command of standard English conventions
appropriate to this grade level.
 
Thinking While You Read
 		 R2.4 Use context to resolve ambiguities about word and sentence
meanings.
R2.5 Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text by
identifying key words (i.e., signpost words).
R2.6 Relate prior knowledge to textual information.
R2.7 Retell the central ideas of simple expository or narrative
passages.
 
Polly Wolly Prefix
 		  
The Writer's Song
 		 W1.0 Writing Strategies
Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that
develop a central idea. Their writing shows they consider the
audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the
writing process (e.g., prewriting, drafting, revising, editing
successive versions).
W3.1 Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and
character(s) in a story, as well as the story's beginning, middle, and
ending.
W2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students write compositions that describe and explain familiar
objects, events, and experiences. Student writing demonstrates a
command of standard American English and the drafting, research,
and organizational strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0.

Using the writing strategies of grade one outlined in Writing
Standard 1.0, students:
W2.1 Write brief narratives (e.g., fictional, autobiographical)
describing an experience.
W2.2 Write brief expository descriptions of a real object, person,
place, or event, using sensory details.

Capitalization
WOEL1.7 Capitalize the first word of a sentence, names of people,
and the pronoun I.
 
Plural Y and F
 		 R1.14 Read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words
(e.g., look, looked, looking).

Grammar
1.2 Identify and correctly use singular and plural nouns.
 
Parts of Speech
 		 WOEL1.3 Identify and correctly use ...singular possessive pronouns
(e.g., my/ mine, his/ her, hers, your/s) in writing and speaking.
 
Talk-Talk Song
 		  
4 Kinds of Sentences
 		 WOEL1.4 Distinguish between declarative, exclamatory, and
interrogative sentences.
 
Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant
 		  
Fiction Doodle Dandy
 		 R3.1 Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and
character(s) in a story, as well as the story's beginning, middle, and
ending.
 
Angles Song
 		  
Parallel and Perpendicular
 		  
Triangle Bush
 		  
Quadrilateral
 		  
Perimeter Area Song
 		  
Measurement Song
 		  
All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.)