Social studies lessons for kindergarten

I hope everyone has gotten back into the routine of school. My kiddos are working hard each day to remember our expectations and daily routines, as well as learning lots of new skills. We started our phonics skills progression two weeks ago. We focused on short a the first week and then short a word families the next week. Each new vowel I am making an anchor poster to display in the room. The kiddos came up with all of the words and then I added the pictures. Anchor charts are such a great…

This blog post was updated November 2019 Join my Newsletter Here This week, we read one of my FAVORITE Thanksgiving books, Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano. I LOVED how this anchor retell chart came out!!! We talked about each part one at a time and the kids went back to their desks to draw the ... Read More about Thanksgiving Fun

In this post, I will share with you my monthly themes for science and social studies for Kindergarten! I recently received an email in whi...

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Celebrate Dia de los Muertos in your kindergarten classroom with our comprehensive resource! Featuring cross-curricular activities in Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science, this resource brings the holiday to life. Students will enjoy hands-on learning with themed exercises that include counting, cultural stories, life cycles, and social studies lessons. Perfect for fostering curiosity and understanding, this resource makes learning about this vibrant holiday both fun and…

Kids can practice identifying needs and wants by sorting pictures and words in this free social studies worksheet. It is an easy cut and paste activity.

Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.

One of the first projects or themes I find fun, simple and engaging is learning about Communities (2 weeks) and making a map as the culminating activity to end the unit. (For a total of 3 weeks on Community) This week, I started by reading the class a book on maps I got on Amazon. The book was chunked over a period of 2 days to ensure understanding. Maps - Kindergarten Unit After the story, the students were shown real maps that I had saved from going on little road trips. We sat in a circle…

(Click on any photo to be taken to the resource) You are going to LOVE this unit. It’s easy to implement, it’s comprehensive, #representation, and your students are going to walk away with a great foundation of important social studies skills. We lay the foundation in literally every other academic area, social studies shouldn’t be […]