Kindergarten Unit 4 Exhibit Night 2024
Wednesday, May 15th | 5:15-5:45 | Media Center & Courtyard
During this unit, Explorers spent time learning about American symbols and their importance to our nation. After studying flags, statues, presidential figures and national buildings, they created their own American symbols quilt. They also discovered how to use globes and maps to find where they live in relation to the rest of the world and discussed their own city, state, country and continent. Finally, students explored our country’s economic system, hearing about concepts such as goods and services, wants and needs as well as earning, spending and saving money. On a tour of the DeKalb Farmers Market, they saw these ideas in action and even used a budget to make their own purchasing decisions.
Student Expeditions:
- Your Dekalb Farmer’s Market
- Center for Puppetry Arts “American Symbols”
- Southern Belle Farms
Ask an Explorer:
- What do the stars and stripes on the American Flag represent?
- What is your favorite American symbol?
- What are goods? What are services?
Me On The Map
Kindergarteners learned that maps are drawings of a place and globes are models of the Earth. We learned how to differentiation land and water features on maps and globes and that they give us a birds’ eye view of our neighborhood, city, state, country, continent or world!
A map leads you to a place you want to go. Sometimes when you are lost you need it. You can bring a map or you can find one on your phone.
– Austyn Gonzalez
Our National Flag
Kindergarteners learned to identify our National and State Flags as important symbols. They learned that the colors and shapes on each flag are also symbols. The stars on the American Flag represent the fifty states and its stripes represent the thirteen original colonies. The thirteen stars on the Georgia flag represent the state as one of the original thirteen colonies.
The stripes on the American Flag represent the 13 colonies!
– Braylen Thompson
American Symbols Quilt
The kindergarten learned about different American Symbols so they can understand more about our country and its history. They chose their favorite symbol to illustrate and put them together as a quilt of our favorite American Symbols. Kindergarteners learned about American Symbols during this Unit, including the Statue of Liberty, The American Flag, the Bald Eagle, the White House, the Washington Monument and Presidents including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
American Symbols represent our country. The Bald Eagle is an American Symbol.
– Amelia Whitman