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Kindergarten Standards

Standard K-1
Standard K-2
Standard K-3
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Kindergarten

Standard K-1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the way families live and work together now and the way they lived and worked together in the past.

Suggested Vocabulary:

pastmodes
communication
transportation
e-mail
messengers
automobile
opposed
family
parent
grandparent
change
work
modern

Suggested Literature:

Ammon, Richard. Amish Horses. New York: Atheneum, 2001. This picture book chronicles the many tasks on an Amish farm for both the horses and the farm family. (NA)
Ancona, George. Harvest. Tarrytown, NY, Marshall Cavendish, 2001. Through text and photography, the life of migrant farm workers tells why they are willing to take risks and make sacrifices as their work ethic drives them. (NA)
Bania, Michael. Kumak’s House: A Tale of the Far North. Portland: Graphic Arts Center/Alaska Northwest Books, 2002. A wise village elder shows Kumak and his family a lesson in contentment using traditional Inupiat Eskimo culture. (AD280L)
Bartoletti, Susan. The Christmas Promise. New York: Blue Sky/Scholastic, 2001. This Depression-era picture book shows a young girl and her dad as they become homeless, ride the rails, and are jailed. She is left with a kind and loving family while dad goes to find a job, and he returns on Christmas Eve. (AD470L)
Bradley, Marie. Momma, Where Are You From? New York: Orchard/Scholastic, 2000. Watercolors illustrate Momma’s memories of growing up in a black community touched by discrimination but full of love, music, and support. (AD730L)
Corey, Shana. Players in Pigtails. New York: Scholastic, 2003. Katie Casey lived during World War II and loved baseball. She wasn’t allowed to play until all the boys went off to war and the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was started. (350L)
Crandell, Rachel. Hands of the Maya: Villagers at Work and Play. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Traditional Mayan life and culture are shown through photographs of human hands at work making tortillas, carving stone, weaving, washing, and many other activities. (NA)
DeGross, Monalisa. Grandaddy’s Street Songs. New York: Jump at the Sun, 1999. A grandfather describes a typical day from his youth when he worked as a street peddler selling produce from his wagon throughout the city. (NA).
Drummond, Allan. The Flyers. New York: Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. A child’s-eye view of the Wright brothers’ flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 progresses to a chronology of flight through Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk. (NA)
Elya, Susan Middleton. Home at Last. New York: Lee and Low, 2002. This book uses easily identifiable, realistic examples of what your everyday life would be like if you could not speak English, a difficulty encountered by immigrant families. (NA)
George, Jean Craighead. Nutick, the Wolf Pup. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. When his older sister Julie brings home two small wolf pups, Amaroq takes care of one called Nutik and grows to love it, even though Julie tells him it cannot stay. (290L)
Gibbons, Gail. Deadline! From News to Newspaper. New York: HarperCollins, 1987. At a small daily newspaper, a typical day begins with meeting deadlines and ends with the afternoon newspapers leaving the press. (530L)
Haas, Jessie. Hurry! New York: Greenwillow, 2000. Life on a farm is portrayed as a young girl helps her grandparents get the hay in before a rainstorm ruins the crop. (NA)
Heo, Lenore. Henry’s First-Moon Birthday. New York: Anne Schwartz Books/
Atheneum, 2001. Jenny helps her grandmother get ready to celebrate her baby brother’s one-month birthday – his first-moon, as it is called in Chinese. (AD520L)
Herold, Maggie Rugg. A Very Important Day. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1995. On a snowy day, people originally from many different foreign countries set out in New York City to reach a common destination: the courthouse and their American citizenship.
(AD340L)
Hopkinson, Deborah. Bluebird Summer. New York: Greenwillow, 2001. Mags and Cody try to bring back their Grandmother’s spirit since her death by restoring some of the things she loved to the farm of their summer visits. (NA)
Houston, Gloria. My Great-Aunt Arizona. Scholastic Inc. 1992. A tale of one-room schoolhouses to modern times helps children to see how life has changed over the years. (AD660L)
Howard, Ginger. William’s House. Brookfield, NJ: Millbrook Press, 2001. William arrives in New England from England in 1637. The try to duplicate their English home but realize that climate will require modifications. (AD570L)
Ichord, Loretta Frances. Skillet Bread, Sourdough, and Vinegar Pie: Cooking in Pioneer Days. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2003. Recipes, cooking directions, and history accompany this collection of stories on food people ate in the movement across America. (NA)
Igus, Toyomi. When I Was Little. East Orange, NJ: Just Us Books, Inc., 1992. Noel’s grandfather tells what his life was like when he was growing up. (AD680L)
Jackson, Ellen. Turn of the Century. Charlesbridge Publishing.1998. Each century in the second millennium is brought to life through a child’s experience. (880L)
Jennings, Peter, and Todd Brewster. The Century for Young People. New York: Doubleday, 1999. The past one hundred years is presented through interviews, historical photos, and commentary. (NA)
Kalman, Maira. Next Stop Grand Central. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998. This book describes the sights, sounds, and people of a typical day in Grand Central Station. (AD380L)
Karim, Roberta. Kindle Me a Riddle: A Pioneer Story. New York: Greenwillow, 1999. The riddles that a pioneer family share explain the origin of such things in their nineteenth century Great Plains lives as their log cabin, johnnycakes, and more. (AD260L)
Kay, Verla. Iron Horses. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999. Illustrations and simple, rhyming text tell of the race to construct railroads across the country during the second half of the nineteenth century. (NP)
Keats, Ezra Jack. A Letter to Amy. New York: Puffin, 1968. Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party, but he wants it to be a surprise. (170L)
Krensky, Stephen. Shooting for the Moon: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. This illustrated book illuminates the poverty stricken childhood of the star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. (780L)
Lee, Milly. Earthquake. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. A young Chinese-American girl move from their home in Chinatown to the safety of Golden Gate Park during the San Francisco earthquake and following fires in 1906. (AD520L)
Lewin, Ted. Big Jimmy’s Kum Kau Chinese Take Out. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. The young son of the owner of a contemporary Chinese restaurant gives a behind-the-scenes look and challenges stereotypes. (NA)
Lyon, George Ella. Come a Tide. New York: Orchard Books, 1990. A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home. (490L)
Medearis, Michael and Angela Shelf Medearis. Daisy and the Doll. Middlebury, VT: Vermont Folklife Center, 2000. This story of racial differences is based on the life of Daisy Turner, a young black girl who lived in Vermont in the late 1800’s. (450L)
Mitchell, Margaree King. Uncle Jed’s Barbershop. New York: Scholastic, 1993. A young girl tells the story of her uncle saving money to reach his dream of owning his own barbershop in the early 1900s. (AD710L)
Morrow, Barbara Olenyik. A Good Night for Freedom. New York: Holiday House, 2003. Hallie discovers two runaway slaves hiding in Levi Coffin’s house and has to make a choice between turning them in and helping them escape. (NA)
Okimoto, Jean Davies, and Elaine M. Aoki. The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption. New York: Clarion Books, 2002. Four American families visit Guangzhou, China, to meet their new Chinese daughters. (NA)
Otto, Carolyn. Pioneer Church. NY: Henry Holt, 1999. Based on the records of a church in Pennsylvania, this story shows how communities change over time. (AD760L)
Peterson, Cris. Century Farm: One Hundred Years on a Family Farm. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1999. Readers will see the differences and similarities in farming as the Peterson family works their Wisconsin farm for a century. (880L)
Rand, Gloria. Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea. New York: North-South Books, 2001. This story follows the adventures of the four Madsen children as they grew up aboard a ship in the Hawaiian Islands trade between 1896 and 1910. (810L)
Raven, Margot Theis. Circle Unbroken. NY: Farrar, 2004. A child connects a Gullah sweet-grass basket to her ancestors’ history and craft from West Africa to South Carolina. (NA)
Rotner, Shelley, and Ken Dreisler. Citybook. Silver Burdett Ginn, 1994. A young boy discovers how much there is to do in the city. (BR)
Rotner, Shelley, and Sheila M. Kelly, Ed.D. Lots of Grandparents. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2001. Similarities and differences among grandparents. (AD30L)
Rylant, Cynthia. When I Was Young in the Mountains. New York: Penguin, 1982. This is the story of an Appalachian childhood which evokes a love of place, a family, and a way of life. Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow Book. (AD980L)
Stewart, Sarah. The Journey. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. Hannah, a young Amish girl, visits Chicago on her birthday and compares big city, skyscrapers, department stores, and the aquarium with the joys of her simple life back home as she writes in her diary. (680L)
Swain, Ruth Freeman. Bedtime! New York: Holiday House, 1999. This book explains the history of beds, sleeping apparel, and bedding across time and cultures. (NA).
Thomas, Joyce Carol. I Have Heard of a Land. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. This story describes an African-American pioneer woman’s experience as she staked a claim for free land in the Oklahoma territory. (NP)
Van Leeuwen, Jean. Going West. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997.. The story of the hardship and daily interactions of a pioneer family is told as they travel through the American West. (AS600L)
Wells, Rosemary and Tom. The House in the Mail. New York: Viking/Penguin Putnam, 2002. Emily’s diary describes events in 1927 in Kentucky when her family decides to order a house featuring all the latest in modern living from a catalog. (750L)
Wiles, Deborah. Freedom Summer. New York: Anne Schwartz Books/Atheneum, 2001. This book illuminates racism in the 1960’s through the eyes of two nine-year old boys. Joe is pleased to find out in 1964 that his black friend, John, can now share the pool and other public places with him but is dismayed to find out that prejudice still exists. (AD460L)
Wilson, Janet. Imagine That! Stoddart Kids, 2000. A hundred-year-old woman shows “progress” in entertainment, transportation, inventions, science, technology, and social and political events decade by decade over the last century. (NA)
Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. Freedon’s Wings: Corey’s Diary, Kentucky to Ohio, 1857. New York: Scholastic, 2001. Corey, a slave child, is determined to reach freedom and the father who taught him to read and write as he and his mother flee at the mercy of the Underground Railroad. (NA)
Yezerski, Thomas F. A Full Hand. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002. Nine-year-old Asa learns from his father how to navigate a canal boat, locks, and aqueducts in a forgotten way of life over one hundred years ago. (NA)
Zalben, Jane Breskin. Pearl’s Passover: A Family Celebration through Stories, Recipes, Crafts, and Songs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. This is an in-depth look at Passover and its family and school celebrations. (NA)