Social Studies

By the end of Kindergarten, your child will be able to: 

  • Develop an understanding of how to use and create a timeline.

  • Develop an awareness of a primary source.

  • Compare children and families of today with those in the past.

  • Recognize the importance of celebrations and national holidays as a way of remembering and honoring people, events, and our nation's ethnic heritage.

  • Compare our nation's holidays with holidays of other cultures.

  • Listen to and retell stories about people in the past who have shown character ideals and principles including honesty, courage, and responsibility.

  • Recognize the importance of U.S. symbols.

  • Use words and phrases related to chronology and time to explain how things change and to sequentially order events that have occurred in school.

  • Explain that calendars represent days of the week and months of the year.

  • Describe the relative location of people, places, and things by using positional words.

  • Explain that maps and globes help to locate different places and that globes are a model of the Earth.

  • Identify cardinal directions (north, south, east, west).

  • Differentiate land and water features on simple maps and globes.

  • Locate and describe places in the school and community.

  • Know one's own phone number, street address, city or town and that Florida is the state in which the student lives.

  • Identify basic landforms.

  • Identify basic bodies of water.

  • Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes, and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.

  • Describe different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools or equipment used.

  • Recognize that United States currency comes in different forms.

  • Recognize that people work to earn money to buy things they need or want.

  • Identify the difference between basic needs and wants.

  • Identify the purpose of rules and laws in the home and school.

  • Identify people who have the authority and power to make and enforce rules and laws. 

  • Describe and demonstrate the characteristics of being a responsible citizen.

  • Describe ways for groups to make decisions.

  • Define patriotism as the allegiance to one’s country.

  • Recognize symbols that represent the United States. 

  • Recognize symbols that represent Florida.

  • Recognize African American inventors and explorers (i.e., Lonnie Johnson [inventor], Mae C. Jemison, George Washington Carver).