Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 8
Families
Every family is special
What your child practises
Seeing that families come in many shapes and sizes, growing up from baby to grandparent, family stories and traditions, and helping at home.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: D20.1, D20.3 · belonging to families and groups, and respecting how others do things
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Put these in order, from youngest to oldest.
- 🧒child
- 👶baby
- 🧓grandparent
- 🧑grown-up
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baby → child → grown-up → grandparent
Hint: Everyone starts as a baby. Then we grow into a child, a grown-up and a grandparent.
Question 2
How have you changed since you were a baby?
👶- 📏I am bigger and can do more
- 🚫I have not changed at all
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📏 I am bigger and can do more
Hint: You have grown taller and learned lots of new things!
Question 3
Kenji's family speaks two languages at home. Is that okay?
💬- 👎No
- 👍Yes, that's great!
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👍 Yes, that's great!
Hint: Families speak many languages. Every language is special!
Question 4
Who can tell you stories about when you were a baby?
- 👪your family
- 🚶a stranger
- 📺a cartoon
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👪 your family
Hint: Your family remembers when you were little. Ask them for a story!
Question 5
There is a baby in your family. How can you help?
👶- 📢be loud at nap time
- ✊take the baby's toy
- 🧸hand the baby a toy
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🧸 hand the baby a toy
Hint: Being gentle and kind helps babies feel safe.
Question 6
Grandpa shows you old family photos. What can you learn?
👴- 👟how to tie shoes
- 🌦️tomorrow's weather
- 📷about your family long ago
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📷 about your family long ago
Hint: Old photos show what your family did a long time ago.