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🗺️ Kindergarten · Social StudiesD2.His.2.K-2Unit 1: Me & my school

All about me

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🎯 Objective: Students share who they are and notice how classmates are alike and different.

Lesson outline

  1. All-about-me bag.
  2. Same/different circle game.
  3. Draw a self-portrait.
  4. Exit: one thing that makes you special.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.2.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe themselves and how they are alike and different from others
  • Follow classroom rules and explain why we have them

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Countries🎉 Holidays⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Me & my school”

  1. All about me
  2. Classroom rules
  3. School helpers

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