Social Studies Curriculum

In Kindergarten Social Studies, we will learn:

1. About being a good citizen: such as following rules, sharing, and taking turns.

2. Examples honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history from stories and folklore.

3. The National and state symbols and icons such as the national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.

4. How to match descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.

5. Near/far, left/right, and behind/in front.

6. How to distinguish between land and water on maps and globes.

7. How to Identify traffic symbols and map symbols.

8. How to construct maps and models of neighborhoods

9. How to demonstrate familiarity with the school’s layout, and the jobs people do there.

10. How to put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order.

11. That history relates to events, people, and places of other times (long ago vs. today)

12. The purposes of, and the people and events honored in the following holidays: Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Washington’s and Lincoln’s Birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day).

13. The triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of such people as Pocahontas, George Washington, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin.

14. How people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today.