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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 14

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.11(A); K.11(B) · family traditions and how traditions differ between families

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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 2 of 14 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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

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

    Sort into: 👍 helps · 👎 doesn't help

    • 🚰leave the water running
    • 🍽️set the table
    • 🐕feed the pet
    • 🛋️jump on the couch
    • 🧸put toys away
    • 🧩leave toys on the floor

  3. Question 3

    Kenji's family speaks two languages at home. Is that okay?

    💬
    • 👍Yes, that's great!
    • 👎No

  4. Question 4

    Which job can a kid do at home?

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

  5. Question 5

    In many First Peoples communities, who shares stories and teachings?

    • 🐕pets
    • 👶babies
    • 🧓Elders

  6. Question 6

    How have you changed since you were a baby?

    👶
    • 🚫I have not changed at all
    • 📏I am bigger and can do more

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