Mail time! An integrated postcard and geography study

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
    • clarifying purposes for engaging in communication.
    • using clear and precise language to paraphrase messages.
    • engaging in more extended oral discussions.
    • producing written products.
    • completing graphic organizers.
  • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.
  • Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, describe and display data using line plots and tallies.

Grade 2

• Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.
  • Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, describe and display data using Venn diagrams (three sets) and pictographs where symbols represent multiple units (2's, 5's, 10's).

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will recognize, model, and write whole numbers through 30.
  • Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
    • Connect model, number word (orally), and number, using a variety of representations.
    • Count objects in a set.
    • Read and write numerals.
    • Compare and order sets and numbers.
    • Use ordinals (1st-10th).
    • Estimate quantities fewer than or equal to 10.
    • Recognize equivalence in sets and numbers 1-10.
• Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will collect, organize and display data.
  • Objective 4.01: Collect and organize data as a group activity.
  • Objective 4.02: Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 1

• Goal 5: The learner will express geographic concepts in real life situations.
  • Objective 5.02: Investigate key features of maps.

Grade 2

• Goal 5: The learner will understand the relationship between people and geography in various communities.
  • Objective 5.04: Identify the absolute and relative location of communities.
  • Objective 5.05: Interpret maps, charts, and pictures of locations.

Kindergarten

• Goal 5: The learner will express basic geographic concepts in real life situations.
  • Objective 5.03: Describe the functions of places in the home, school, and other environments.