HISTORY

Pre Kindergarten

 

Overarching Question: How do things change over time?

 

Essential Questions:

v      How have I changed since I was a baby?

v      Why do we have daily routines?

v      How/Why do people celebrate holidays and other important events?

v      What is my family’s history? (of my family members)

 

 

 

Enduring Understandings 

 

MA History/ Social  SCIENCE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK LEARNING STANDARDS

 

Assessments

Learning Experiences

People change over time – physically and in other ways (e.g. learning new skills, etc.)

 

People’s lives change over time.

 

We have routines for different times of the day.

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

Assessments:

 

Learning Experiences/Activities:

 

Have daily schedule to keep track of daily sequence of events

And activities

Have a monthly calendar to keep track of the days, weeks, months, years

Have a day without electricity, refrigeration

 Build shelter in classroom

Make bread, clothing, clay dishes from found materials

 

 

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