Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 8
Traditions & Celebrations
How families and communities celebrate
What your child practises
Talk about your family's traditions and stories, and be curious about those of friends. Respect and kindness are the aims, not memorizing facts about any one culture.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: cultures, traditions, and histories · family and community traditions, sharing stories from the past, and respecting different ways of celebrating
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which one is a way people share their culture?
🎶- weather reports
- music, food and stories
- math facts only
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music, food and stories
Hint: Culture includes the music, food, clothing and stories people share.
Question 2
Past or today? Tap a picture, then its basket.
Sort into: 🕰️ Long ago · 📱 Today
- 📱tablet
- 🐎horse and wagon
- 🚌school bus
- 🧺washboard
- 🫧washing machine
- 🪔oil lamp
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🕰️ Long ago: horse and wagon, washboard, oil lamp · 📱 Today: tablet, school bus, washing machine
Hint: Things from the past are old. Things today are new.
Question 3
What is a tradition?
🎉- a kind of weather
- something a family or group does again and again
- a thing you buy at a store
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something a family or group does again and again
Hint: Traditions are special things people do the same way, year after year.
Question 4
Grandma tells a story her grandma told her. This is a…
📖- story from the past
- new invention
- shopping list
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story from the past
Hint: Many families pass stories down. These help us learn about history.
Question 5
Order the family from youngest to oldest.
- 🧒child
- 🧑parent
- 👶baby
- 👵grandparent
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baby → child → parent → grandparent
Hint: A baby is the youngest, then a child, then a parent, then a grandparent.
Question 6
You look at a photo of your family long ago. What can you learn?
📷- the weather tomorrow
- how people lived in the past
- what is for lunch
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how people lived in the past
Hint: Old photos and things show history.