Social Studies

Concepts that will be taught in Kindergarten Social Studies are:

• Tracing the history of individuals and families, and describing the way people lived in earlier days and how we live differently today.
• The people and events honored in national holidays, including Thanksgiving, Presidents’ Day, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• Identifying days of the week and months of the year. <
• Locating events on a calendar, including birthdays, holidays, and school events.
• Why we have rules and the consequences of breaking them.
• Identifying examples of honesty, courage, cooperation, and patriotism in literature.
• People who help keep us safe in our communities (police, firefighters, nurses, doctors). <
• Symbols of our country: the national and the state flags; the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem.
• Determining the relative location of objects using the terms near/far, behind/in front, over/under.
• Reading and constructing simple maps.
• Be able to make choices, and evaluate the choices of others as consumers, workers, and citizens.
• Examining descriptions of work that people do.
• The need to make choices because resources are limited.
• Recognizing various forms of United States money (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar).
• Understanding how money is used to purchase goods and services.