I chose a farm animals unit because it is a familiar theme for my students in their colony life.   They are familiar with the subject of animals and their surroundings in the German language.  I hope this would make learning them in English words a little easier.  I will be teaching the theme across the curriculum covering Math, Science, Reading, Social Studies, Writing, Art, and Music.  Following is a list of content standards I will touch on:

Social Studies:  1.  Compare and contrast the relative size and location of people, places, and things by identifying her/there, near/far, up/down, left/right, and behind/in front.  2.  Demonstrate familiarity with the layout of his or her school.  3.  Will identify basic economic concepts, including the difference between basic needs (food, clothing, and shelter) and wants (luxuries); and the practice of exchanging money for goods.

Communication/Language Arts: 1.  Use pictures, illustrations, and personal knowledge to make and confirm predictions about stories.  2.  Connect information found in stories to personal experience.  3.  Identify the role of both the author and illustrator.  4.  Retell familiar stories using beginning, middle, and end.  5.  Identify patterns of rhyming words.  6.  Describe how books, stories, poems reflect things people do.  7.  Identify the characteristics of a variety of simple genres.  8.  Distinguish between “make believe” and “real” in print materials.  9.  Use pictures and words to tell a story.  10.  Retell or restate what has been heard or seen.  11.  Follow various one and two-step directions.  12.  Take turns in conversations and group situations.  13.  Use appropriate volume and tone of voice when responding to others.  14.  Use patterns to recall information.  15.  Retell an experience in logical sequence.  16.  Retell an experience in logical sequence.  17.  Use pictures when telling a story.  18.  Follow simple rules for conversations.

Science:  1.  Compare size, shape and structure of living things.  2.  Recognize that offspring of plants and animals are similar, but not identical to their parents or one another.

Mathematics:  1.  Compare collections of objects to determine more, less and equal.  2.  Recognize and create a variety of sets and patterns using symbols.  3.  Recognize that addition or subtraction is used to solve problems.  4.  Recognize and explain + and – symbols.  5.  Identify and describe geometric objects in the environment and describe their position (such as next to, top, bottom).  6.  Count and group numbers, objects and simple events.  7.  Use objects to model addition and subtraction.  8.  Determine the number of objects in a set when one object is added or subtracted.  9.  Represent problem situations using concrete objects.  10.  Collect and record information using tallies, picture graphs or other strategies.