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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 15

Changes in My Life

Big events and putting them in order

What your child practices

Big life events (a new sibling, a move, starting school), how people's experiences are alike and different, and ordering events as a simple timeline.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.10 · timelines and schedules of a child's life

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Your life has big events, like learning to walk.
  2. Put events in order: what came first, next, last?
  3. Changes can feel big. Friends and family can help.

Example: Which came first: walking or crawling? Babies crawl before they can stand. Then they learn to walk. Answer: crawling

Changes in My Life in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 8 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after Our Land and before Social Studies Detectives.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put these events from your life in order. What came first?

    • 🎒Kindergarten
    • 📚Grade 1
    • 🚶Learn to walk
    • 👶Baby

  2. Question 2

    Maya lost her first tooth. Her friend did not yet. Is that okay?

    • No, something is wrong
    • It means they are not friends
    • Yes, everyone grows differently

  3. Question 3

    Which came first?

    👶
    • walking
    • crawling
    • running a race

  4. Question 4

    A new baby comes home. What changes for the family?

    • The house disappears
    • Everyone helps care for the baby
    • Nobody changes

  5. Question 5

    Ana started swimming lessons. What did she start to learn?

    🏊
    • a new color
    • a new skill
    • a new street

  6. Question 6

    What happens to a baby as it grows?

    🧒
    • It learns to walk and talk
    • It turns into a pet
    • It shrinks

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