Kindergarten

Ms. Garcia + Ms. Menjivar

Ms. Servidio + Mr. Vasquez

Mr. Cutipa + Ms. Flores

❄️ DECEMBER 2025 ❄️

Unit of Inquiry

Theme & Description

How We Organize Ourselves

An inquiry into systems, structures and networks through:

Interactions within and between social and ecological systems
Approaches to livelihoods and trade practices: intended and unintended consequences
Representation, collaboration and decision-making

Central Idea: Roles and responsibilities as community helpers

Lines of Inquiry

Students will be assessed on the following inquiries throughout the unit. Each line of inquiry will guide students to understand and appreciate that everyone is unique.

1. Similarities and differences between rules within households and amongst different communities (form)

2. Types of communities-components, roles, roles of different members (form)

3. Community members have an impact on our community in order to maintain systems (form)

Concepts

Function - Students will explore how things work. They will think about peoples roles in communities and how they roles work independently and interdependently. Students will think about the purpose of work and trade.

Causation - Students will think about the effects of choices in livelihoods and trade. They will think about how one individual choice can impact the larger community.

Approaches to Learning

Thinking Skills

This unit we are focusing on supporting and guiding students to show the process of their learning. This will be done via thinking skills. Students will begin recording their thinking throughout the unit.

In our “How We Organize Ourselves” Unit, we have learned about how everything in our world—people, plants, animals, and the way we do things—is connected!

We have explored the systems, structures, and networks that help our community work together and thrive! More specifically, we have been learning about different community helpers, roles in our communities, and how all members of our communities are essential to making our neighborhoods special! We learned and studied about Police Officers and Firefighters.

In our classes, we have been discussing the roles and tools of different members of our neighborhoods and communities. In Kindergarten, we have been learning about Firefighters and Police Officers. We have identified the special tools they use to carry out their jobs properly and different ways that they can assist people. We were visited by a Police Officer, who was able to show us his police car, and we received a video from a real Firefighter that answered our "wonderings."

Questions We Had For A Firefighter:

Why do you drive big red trucks?
Do you have a firehouse dog?
Have you ever rescued pets(cats/dogs)?
Why do you wear a helmet and a face mask?
What does the inside of a fire truck look like?
Why do you need to wear big gloves?

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