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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 11

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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: K.SP1.1; K.SP1.2 · words for past, present and future, and how past events shape a family

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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 2 of 11 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: Arizona Department of Education

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.

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

  2. Question 2

    How can you learn about your family long ago?

    • 👵ask an older family member
    • 📺watch a cartoon
    • ☁️look at the clouds

  3. Question 3

    Which job can a kid do at home?

    • 🍳cook at the hot stove
    • 🧸put toys away
    • 🚗drive the car

  4. Question 4

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

    Sort into: 👍 helps · 👎 doesn't help

    • 🧩leave toys on the floor
    • 🍽️set the table
    • 🧦match the socks
    • 🐕feed the pet
    • 🛋️jump on the couch
    • 🚰leave the water running

  5. Question 5

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

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

  6. Question 6

    Who can tell you stories about when you were a baby?

    • 🚶a stranger
    • 📺a cartoon
    • 👪your family

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