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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 10

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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: History 1 · past, present and future in a child's own 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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 4 of 10 in 1st grade Social Studies, after My Community and before Respect & Inclusion.

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: Maine 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

    A photo album helps a family…

    • stop time
    • lose things
    • remember special days

  2. Question 2

    Leo moved to a new home. How might he feel?

    🏠
    • only angry
    • nothing at all
    • excited and a little nervous

  3. Question 3

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

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

  4. Question 4

    Which came first?

    👶
    • walking
    • running a race
    • crawling

  5. Question 5

    Amir's family moved to a new town. What is new?

    🚚
    • his birth date
    • his name
    • his home and neighbors

  6. Question 6

    Before you started Grade 1, you were in…

    • Grade 5
    • university
    • Kindergarten

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