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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 10

All About Me

Feelings, kindness and being me

What your child practices

Naming feelings, noticing how we are the same and different, and choosing kind actions so everyone feels respected.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: K.5.23.1; K.1.3.1 · describing myself and my family, and my roles in the groups I belong to

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Feelings have names: happy, sad, scared, angry.
  2. Think: what happened? How would you feel?
  3. Kind choices help others feel good.

Example: Your friend shares a toy with you. How might you feel? Sharing is a kind thing to do. Kind things make us feel good. Answer: happy

All About Me in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 1 of 10 in Kindergarten Social Studies, before I Am Me.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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

    Kenji is good at drawing. Priya is good at running. So…

    • 🖍️only Kenji is special
    • 🏃only Priya is special
    • ⭐we are good at different things

  2. Question 2

    How are all people the same?

    • 🍕We all like the same food
    • 💇We all have the same hair
    • ❤️We all have feelings

  3. Question 3

    Jay dropped his ice cream. How might he feel?

    🍦
    • 😄happy
    • 😴sleepy
    • 😢sad

  4. Question 4

    Zoe is new and alone at recess. What can you do?

    • 🙅tell others to leave her out
    • 🙈pretend not to see her
    • 👋ask her to play

  5. Question 5

    Kind or not kind? Tap a picture, then its basket.

    Sort into: 👍 kind · 👎 not kind

    • ✊grab a toy
    • 🙏say thank you
    • 🔄take turns
    • 🤝help a friend
    • 🚶cut in line
    • 🙅leave someone out

  6. Question 6

    A friend falls down. What can you do?

    • 🚶walk away
    • 😝laugh at them
    • 🤗ask if they're okay

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