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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 9

Families

Every family is special

What your child practices

Seeing that families come in many shapes and sizes, growing up from baby to grandparent, family stories and traditions, and helping at home.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.K.2.23.1; SS.K.1.23.1 · describing a past event, and putting family events in order

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Every family is special. Families can look different.
  2. Families help each other at home.
  3. A tradition is something a family does again and again.

Example: Your family has pancakes every Sunday. What is that? You do it again and again. That makes it a family tradition. Answer: a tradition

Families in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 2 of 9 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after All About Me and before Needs & Wants.

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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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 in order, from youngest to oldest.

    • 🧑grown-up
    • 🧒child
    • 👶baby
    • 🧓grandparent

  2. Question 2

    Ravi's family makes the same special food each year. That's a…

    🍲
    • 🎉tradition
    • 🧹chore
    • ❌mistake

  3. Question 3

    Does it help at home? Tap a picture, then its basket.

    Sort into: 👍 helps · 👎 doesn't help

    • 🐕feed the pet
    • 🚰leave the water running
    • 🍽️set the table
    • 🧸put toys away
    • 🛋️jump on the couch
    • 🧩leave toys on the floor

  4. Question 4

    A friend's family celebrates in a different way. You should…

    🎉
    • 👎say it's wrong
    • 😝laugh at it
    • 🤝be curious and respectful

  5. Question 5

    Grandpa shows you old family photos. What can you learn?

    👴
    • 👟how to tie shoes
    • 🌦️tomorrow's weather
    • 📷about your family long ago

  6. Question 6

    Some kids live with a grandma. Some live with two dads. Families are…

    👨‍👨‍👧
    • 🔁all the same
    • 🌈different, and all special

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