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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 12

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: K.1a; K.2a · what makes each child unique and what they share with family, school and community members

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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 1 of 12 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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

    How are all people the same?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which one is a kind thing to do?

    • 🤝help a friend
    • 🗯️say mean words
    • ✊grab a toy

  3. Question 3

    Sam hears a very loud BOOM. How might Sam feel?

    ⛈️
    • 😴sleepy
    • 😨scared
    • 😑bored

  4. Question 4

    Jay dropped his ice cream. How might he feel?

    🍦
    • 😢sad
    • 😄happy
    • 😴sleepy

  5. Question 5

    A friend falls down. What can you do?

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

  6. Question 6

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

    Sort into: 👍 kind · 👎 not kind

    • 🔄take turns
    • 🙅leave someone out
    • ✊grab a toy
    • 🤝help a friend
    • 🚶cut in line
    • 🧸share toys

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