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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 14

Flags & Pledges

Our flags, our pledges and voting

What your child practices

The United States flag and the Texas Lone Star flag, the Pledge of Allegiance and the Pledge to the Texas Flag, and voting as a fair way for a group to decide.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.9(A); K.9(B); K.9(C) · the United States and Texas flags, the two pledges, and voting to decide as a group

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A flag is a symbol for a place.
  2. The United States flag has 50 stars.
  3. We say pledges to show respect. When we vote, each person gets one vote.

Example: How many stars are on the United States flag? There is one star for each state. There are 50 states. Answer: 50

Flags & Pledges in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 10 of 14 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after Find Out & Sort and before Holidays & Heroes.

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

    When we say a pledge, we face the…

    • clock
    • window
    • door
    • flag

  2. Question 2

    What colors are on the United States flag?

    • pink and purple
    • orange and black
    • green and yellow
    • red, white and blue

  3. Question 3

    Why do we vote in class?

    • to be noisy
    • to end the day
    • to choose together fairly
    • to skip lunch

  4. Question 4

    The Texas flag has one blue stripe and…

    • many green stripes
    • spots
    • one white and one red stripe
    • no stripes

  5. Question 5

    A pledge is a kind of…

    • song about food
    • snack
    • game
    • promise

  6. Question 6

    We say the US pledge first, then the pledge to the…

    • class pet
    • Texas flag
    • school flag
    • team flag

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