APP 0K00: Kindergarten Exploratory
05/01/2025 to 05/30/2026 • Modified 04/25/2025Course Description
This history and science course includes both history and science standards. The course is designed to alternate each quarter between history and science skills. This course stresses basic history skills in citizenship, the lives of Americans, their contributions to the United States, and the history of the early communities of Virginia. Students will begin to develop mapping skills and demonstrate an understanding of basic economic concepts. Moreover, students will recognize that the United States is a land of people who have diverse ethnic origins, customs, and traditions. Students will continue to learn how to apply a biblical worldview while working through this course, which will help prepare them for their everyday lives as citizens in their communities.
This course also stresses basic science skills in understanding familiar objects and events. Students are expected to begin conducting simple investigations and be responsible for some of the planning.
Students are introduced to the concepts of the Earth’s environment, sunlight, warmth, shadows, living and nonliving things, and changes that occur in the world around them. An emphasis is placed on how students can use their scientific skills to learn more about the world around them.
Next Start Date*
Next Monday
Prerequisite
None
Schedule
Module 1: History – Citizenship & Patriotism
- Week 1: Being a Good Citizen
- Week 2: Traits of a Good Citizen
- Week 3: America Love
- Week 4: American & Virginia Symbols
Module 2: History – National Traditions & Holidays
- Week 5: Presidents
- Week 6: Land of the Free
- Week 7: Being Brave
- Week 8: Holidays
- Week 9: Quarter One Review
Module 3: Science – Getting Started with Science
- Week 10: My Senses
- Week 11: My Senses – Touch, Taste, & Smell
- Week 12: Properties of Objects
Module 4: Science – Earth’s Environment
- Week 13: Patterns in Nature
- Week 14: Exploring Seasons
- Week 15: All About Water
- Week 16: Moving Water
- Week 17: Sunlight, Warmth, & Shadows
- Week 18: Quarter Two Review
Module 5: History – Map Skills
- Week 19: Position & Location
- Week 20: Positional Words
- Week 21: Maps & Globes
- Week 22: Map Symbols
Module 6: History
- Week 23: Communities
- Week 24: Early Communities
Module 7: History – Economics
- Week 25: Needs & Wants
- Week 26: Community Workers
- Week 27: Quarter Three Review
Module 8: Science – Living & Nonliving Things
- Week 28: Living and Nonliving
- Week 29: Plants
- Week 30: Animals
Module 9: Science – Changes
- Week 31: Changes Over Time
- Week 32: Fast or Slow Changes
- Week 33: Reusing & Recycling
Module 10: Science – Movement
- Week 34: Push
- Week 35: Pull
- Week 36: Quarter Four Review
