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🗺️ Kindergarten · Social StudiesD2.His.3.K-2Unit 5: American symbols & holidays

Why we celebrate

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🎯 Objective: Students learn why we celebrate holidays like Thanksgiving, MLK Day and Presidents’ Day.

Lesson outline

  1. Holiday timeline.
  2. Read aloud.
  3. Craft.
  4. Exit: one holiday and why.

Lesson 3 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.3.K-2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recognize American symbols
  • Describe why we celebrate national holidays

✅ 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

🎉 Holidays🦃 Thanksgiving🦫 Encyclopedia: Countries⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “American symbols & holidays”

  1. The American flag
  2. Symbols of the USA
  3. Why we celebrate

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