CIVICS

Kindergarten

 

Overarching Question:  How can we work together to create a safe, positive and productive community?

Essential Questions:                                                                                        

¨       How do we make decisions/choices in our classroom?

¨       How do rules and shared responsibilities help people achieve their goals?

¨       What are the consequences of not following rules?

¨       How do people demonstrate care, kindness, and respect?

¨       How can we address problems?

¨       What is fairness?

¨       What makes a good leader?

 

Enduring Understandings 

 

MA History/ Social  Science

curriculum FRAMEWORK Learning StanDARDS

 

Assessments

Learning Experiences

We all share the responsibility for creating a safe, positive, and productive community through:

 

Being respectful and kind to others.

 

Expressing our feelings and opinions in a considerate manner.

 

Honoring our similarities and differences.

 

  Establishing rules to keep people, materials, and our environment safe.

 

 Following The Golden Rule; treat others  as you want to be treated.

 

There are various leaders in our community school and classroom and  children can be leaders.

 

The leader of the United States is called the president.

 

There are important American symbols (the American flag, the National Anthem, The Pledge of Allegiance)

 

 

Give examples that show the meaning of the following concepts: authority, fairness, justice, responsibility, and rules.

 

Retell stories that illustrate honesty, courage, friendship, respect, responsibility, and the wise, or judicious exercise of authority, and explain how the characters in the stories show these qualities.


Identify and describe family or community members who promote the welfare and safety of children and adults.

 

Demonstrate understanding that there are important American symbols by identifying

 

A.       The American flag and its colors and shapes

B.       The melody of the national anthem

C.       The picture and name of the current president

D.       The words of the Pledge of Allegiance

 

 

Participating in Classroom jobs – dailly

 

Second Step Curriculum

Unit 1:  Empathy Training

Lesson 2   Feelings and Empathy

Lesson 6:  Similarities/Differences

Lesson 8:  I Care

Lesson 9:  I Help

Unit 2:  Emotion Management

Lesson 4:  Dealing with Waiting

Lesson 5:  Dealing with Not getting What you Want

Unit 3:  Problem Solving

Lesson 4:  Fair Ways to Play

 

Discuss/ demonstrate through dramatic play safety rules and traffic rules, recess rules, classroom rules.

 

Children participate in developing group goals and rules.

 

Discuss the consequences of not following rules.

 

Engage in dramatic play role play of positive ways to solve problems.

 

Mystery Person Game:  Children dictate a list of 3 – 5 characteristics about themselves. All children stand. An adult reads the list from a child’s card. Children sit down if they do not have that quality. Students see how they are alike/different

 

Mystery Kindergartner Book

 

Responsive Classroom (resources)

 

Discuss super heroes, book character  and real people in community who represent qualities of fairness, justice, etc.

 

Discuss alternative outcomes of stories if characters had different traits or made different choices

 

Participate in Demonstration of the  proper care of the American flag (invite a boy scout, custodian, war veteran)

 

Farmer Duck Martin Waddell

Purple, Green, and Yellow Robert Munsch

It’s Mine! Leo Lionni