Series

Scratch Garden

128 episodes

Songs and animation in short bursts, generally two to eight minutes, from the Scratch Garden channel. The teaching videos split between early math (counting and skip counting, composing and decomposing numbers, adding and subtracting) and literacy, where contractions and rhyming words each get their own song. Sitting alongside those are clean-up-and-move videos for transitions and a run of frankly silly ones, including a banana pants anthem and an apple-versus-orange showdown, that carry no academic target at all. Those are what you cue for indoor recess or the last five minutes of a Friday, and the catalog labels them that way.

what this series covers

What Scratch Garden covers

128 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–6th. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA), Math and For Fun. Between them they line up with 29 distinct standards across 3 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 52
K: 104
1st: 122
2nd: 113
3rd: 71
4th: 6
5th: 1
6th: 1

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA): 42
Math: 34
For Fun: 28
Brain Breaks: 25
Science: 5

NGSS (Science) 5

3-LS1-1Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
1-LS1-1Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
5-ESS2-1Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
K-ESS2-1Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
K-LS1-1Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Common Core — Math 15

2.NBT.A.2Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
K.CC.A.1Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
2.MD.C.8Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately.
1.G.A.1Distinguish between defining attributes versus non-defining attributes; build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
K.G.A.2Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
4.OA.C.5Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule; identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself.

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1.NBT.B.2Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.
1.OA.C.6Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
3.NF.A.1Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
3.NF.A.2Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram.
3.OA.A.1Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each.
3.OA.B.5Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide (commutative, associative, and distributive properties).
3.OA.C.7Fluently multiply and divide within 100. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.
K.NBT.A.1Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones to understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, … nine ones.
K.OA.A.2Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

Common Core — ELA 9

RF.1.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
RF.2.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
L.1.1Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.K.1Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
RF.K.2Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
RF.K.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

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L.2.1Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.4.4Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content.
RF.3.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

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