The four activities in this lesson will provide students opportunities to enhance friendships. Students will also learn to demonstrate appropriate ways to behave in different settings.

In this lesson, students share great ideas as they work with a partner to design a fun card game that is all about caring.

In this activity, students will work in pairs while addressing the social dilemma of who gets to be the leader and who follows, a common strain in relationships. The children try both roles as they take turns being the leader; thus, learning respect for the other when they follow and building confidence when they lead.

In this activity, students choose a positive behavior, such as how to be a good friend, to illustrate on a poster.

In this lesson, students read books, listen to music, and watch videos about friendship. Then students will make a heart-shaped puzzle with classmates. Divide the heart into enough pieces so that each person in the class will have one, including the teacher, and then put the puzzle back together.

In this lesson, students identify and demonstrate what being a good citizen involves.

In this lesson, studnets learn about saving, spending, decision making and opportunity cost. They learn to use a decision-making grid to make decisions. Mathematics skills include learning about rows and columns in a grid.

Students learn that every single child has a part in making the classroom a great place to be and to understand that friendship is the key ingredient. With the assistance of parents, all students participate in preparing a fruit salad by cutting up different types of fruit. A book about friendship is read and a discussion is lead by the teacher stating that the classroom is like a fruit salad, everyone is different and wonderful. She asks what would one rotten banana do to the whole salad and what would one rotten friend do to the whole classroom. The lesson ends by students having a friendship fruit salad party and making a friendship Apple book (template provided).

In this activity, students explore opportunities to share while learning about human differences and similarities.

This lesson is about creating a safe classroom community. It provides opportunities for students to gain skills in solving problems and communication. Coding is introduced as an option/follow-up.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten Social Studies content.Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten Social Studies Civics & Government unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

In this lesson, the students will use the problem-solving process to address common problems that arise in a kindergarten classroom and/or on the playground. The teacher will pose the problems and lead the students through the problem-solving process.

Students will explore the idea that they are interconnected to many larger communities (classroom, school, family, neighborhood, city, world, etc.) They will also explore the need for these communities to have systems in place where each person plays a role in making the systems function. We will specifically explore the need for, and create, systems that allow us to work, learn and play together in our kindergarten classroom. The creation of rules, jobs, and routines will be the core of this unit. Documenting and sharing these systems will be the product.

In this lesson, students learn to demonstrate cooperation with others and how to identify feelings related to repect and disrespect.

In this lesson, students learn to demonstrate cooperation with others and illustrate actions of a respectful citizen.

In this lesson, students learn to demonstrate what being a good citizen involves.

Kindergarten students are encouraged to gain an increased awareness of themselves and the world around them in our entry level text in the series.

This chapter is all about history. In future grades students begin to learn about the history of our state, our country, and our world. In the early grades however, students learn about history through a much smaller lens. In first grade it’s about families.

You may be tempted to skip this short section. It is brief in comparison to previous chapters but it is ultimately one of the most important. Students have spent their entire class period up to this point exploring and learning more about foundational social studies concepts. This is the chapter that puts it all together.