Have you ever wished you had everything you needed to teach social studies in one easy-to-use resource? Now you have it in Kindergarten Essentials for Social Studies. Even in kindergarten, students are expected to learn a lot! This book will help you meet essential state standards with age-appropriate activities in a fun, attractive, and interesting style! In addition to almost 100 reproducible activity pages, this book offers even more hands-on learning opportunities with templates, graphic organizers, writing prompts, project-based learning ideas, and vocabulary cards with definitions and more. The writing prompts and vocabulary cards are designed so you can cut them out individually. You can mix and match these "extras" to topics you are studying, to activity pages in the book, or use them on their own. Fun attractive pages present content concisely and clearly - making it easy-to-read and easy-to-understand! There are reinforcing activities included on each activity page. The goal with this book is to make your life easier as you introduce your students to the social studies topics and skills they absolutely need to know. The Kindergarten Essentials for Social Studies covers holiday and symbols, character traits, rules and laws, citizenship, patriotism, words to describe time, words to describe location, maps and globes, primary sources and artifacts, simple timelines, goods and services, money, jobs people do and more! Everything you need in one great resource!