HISTORY

Kindergarten

Overarching Questions: How does time affect people and places?

How does time affect me?

                                                 How have people’s lives changed over time?

 

Essential Questions:

¨       How have I changed since I was a baby?

¨       What happens at different times of the day?

¨       Why do we need routines?

¨       How/Why do we celebrate holidays and other important days?

¨       How are national holidays important to the history of our country or our family?

¨       What is my family’s history?  (Mom’s and Dad’s early years, ancestors, etc.)

 

Enduring Understandings 

 

MA History/ Social  SCIENCE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK LEARNING STANDARDS

 

Assessments

Learning Experiences

Time can be described and measured.

 

People and places change over time – physically and in other ways.

 

The way most people live has changed over time. Some groups of people have lived much the same way for many years.

 

There are many reasons why things change over time (ie migrations, inventions, etc)

 

History can be recent (last year) or long ago (thousands of years ago).

 

We honor some important events or people in our history with national holidays.

 

 

 

 

With guidance from the teacher, students should be able to:

 

 Identify sequential actions, such as first, next, last, in stories and use them to describe personal experiences.

 

 Use correctly words and phrases related to chronology and time (now, long ago, before, after; morning, afternoon, night; today, tomorrow, yesterday; last or next week, month, year; and present, past and future tense of verbs)

 

 Use correctly the word because in the context of stories or personal experiences

 

Identify and describe the events or people celebrated during United States national holidays and why we celebrate them

A.       Columbus Day

B.       B. Independence Day

C.       Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

D.       Presidents’ Day

E.        Thanksgiving

 

Put events in their own and their families’ lives in temporal order

Keep track of daily sequence of classroom events and activities through posting a daily schedule.

 

Maintain a classroom calendar to keep track of the days, weeks, months, years.

 

Resource: History to Go,  Teaching Kits PVMA

 

Create class book or chart about life long ago and  contrast/compare to life today

 

Discuss what it would be like to have a day without electricity/modern conveniences

 

 

Interview family members about favorite toys, clothing, food, etc from another generation.

 

Sequence using words/phrases related to chronology and time

 

Pictures of Self as baby, now, and project what child will look like as a teenager and adult.

 

Time capsule of beginning of year measuring height, weight, size of foot, writing name,  or looking at baby

 

Write/draw sequence of school day (personalized – first I wake up then I have breakfast). Bedtime/morning rituals.

 

Sequence stories from picture, sequencing recipes, planting, etc.

 

Because:  Posters, bulletin boards, etc illustrating because

 

Artifacts

 

Family traditions related to national holidays illustrate concepts such as courage, discovery, etc.

 

Quilting, artifacts

 

 

 

 

Literature:

Cherry Pies and Lullabies Lynn Reisner

Sophie Mem Fox

When I was Little:  A Four Year Old’s Memory of Her Youth  Jamie Lee Curtis

When I Was Young in the Mountains Cynthia Rylant

When this box is Full Patricia Lillie

Wordless Books (they encourage children to describe a sequence for example:

Changes Changes  Pat Hutchins