Social Studies K: 2nd Nine Weeks (Unit 3) 4 weeks

Standards

My Community

Media Specialist/ Teacher Connection

Journeys Text and/or Exemplary Text

Correlation

Web Resources

K.1 Describe familiar people, places, things and events, with clarifying detail about a students home, school, and community.

Create a circle map for my community. Assist students to include vocabulary for home, school, and community.

www.library.nashville.org -Community Helpers curriculum kit: contains many nonfiction titles and 2 dvds to introduce community helpers and different types of jobs (All Standards)

http://bit.ly/1yKgT0T -Teachnology Community Helpers Resources www.limitlesslibraries.org -BookFlix: Family and Community category has numerous resources to connect to this unit (All Standards)

K.2 Summarize people and places referenced in picture books, stories, and real-life situations with supporting detail.

Shared writing to summarize details of selected stories.

BookFlix resources

K.3 Compare family traditions and customs among different cultures.

Research Ideas: Thinking maps can be used to record and share information: -The different cultures of the students in the class -Christmas Around the World -International Day- research different countries customs and traditions

Celebrate Family- dvd NPL catalog

http://www.ipl.org/div/cquest/ Internet Public Library culture quest

K.6 Identify and explain how the basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met.

Complete a Thinking Map: Basic Human Needs Use unit vocabulary and make connections to jobs, earning money, and meeting needs.

The Rag Coat, Mills The Bag Im Taking to Grandmas, Neitzel

www.brainpop.com

K.7 Explain the benefits of saving money.

http://bit.ly/1GRXTEC Create a class/library store to reinforce

The Berenstain Bears Dollars and Sense, Berenstain

http://www.kidsmoney.org/index.htm

concepts of money and saving.

Bunny Money, Wells

K.8 Explain why people work and recognize different types of jobs, including work done in the home, school, and community.

Model picture walking nonfiction books and the discussing the information the book is trying to teach. Group students to complete picture walks using simple nonfiction books on community helpers/careers. Students will complete the picture walk and share information about their books. Students create a hat for the career they would like to have after learning about various career options.

Career Day, Rockwell I Am Me!, Branden Working Mummies, Horton

http://bit.ly/1yKkR9y Lesson Plan: Working Hard for a Living iPad Apps: -Community Helpers -Community Helpers: Play and Learn -Community Helpers: LAZ Readers

K.9 Give examples of how family members, friends, and/or acquaintances use money directly or indirectly (cash, check, or credit card) to make purchases. K.10 Use words relating to work including wants, needs, jobs, money, buying, and selling, in writing, drawing, and conversation.

Venn Diagram: wants vs. needs Complete a picture sort for wants vs. needs

Bennys Pennies, Brisson Even Aliens Need Snacks, McElligott

www.brainpop.com

K.20 Identify roles of authority figures at home, at school, and in government to include parents, school principal, volunteers, police officers, fire and rescue workers, mayor, governor, and president.

Use a double bubble map to compare two figures and their roles.

http://bit.ly/1fGjhvG Scholastic Online Readers: Community Club

K.28 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a

Students create a flip book at the end of the unit to describe My

single event or several related events.

Community. Pages will be: Home-School-Community-City (could extend to state and country)

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