Explore American traditions, national holidays, stories of heroes, and diverse cultural customs.

Identify patriotic symbols, national monuments, and American holidays that unite people across the country.

Distinguish between needs and wants, make thoughtful economic choices, and explain how families earn, spend, and save money.

Understand how rules, respect, cooperation, and leaders help communities work together fairly.

Learn how to be a responsible citizen, follow classroom rules, resolve disagreements, and take on helper roles.

Sequence seasons and calendar units, understand how weather shapes human life, and identify natural resources and their uses.

Identify leaders, occupations, safety signs, and local community names in the school and neighborhood.

Identify West Virginia's shape, state symbols, prominent figures, local communities, and compare past and present lifestyles.

Identify goods and services, demonstrate how they are exchanged, and compare diverse occupations in communities and West Virginia.

Read simple maps using directions and keys, identify physical landforms and bodies of water, and use geographic tools.

Use directional terms, read globes and simple maps, and compare life in urban and rural settings.

Distinguish between basic needs and wants, and understand how goods, services, and money function.

Illustrate personal history, understand time sequences, and explore family and school traditions.

Sequence historical events, create personal timelines, analyze primary sources, and investigate community changes over time.

Track daily weather conditions and explain how people adapt clothing, shelters, and activities across seasons.

Recite the state motto, locate hometowns and counties on a West Virginia map, and celebrate traditional Appalachian arts, games, and music.