Virginia SOL 1.2.g

Social Studies1st Grade

The Standard

New Year’s Day

Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify New Year’s Day as January 1, the first day of a new calendar year. They describe common ways people recognize the holiday.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can locate January 1 on a calendar and explain why it begins a new year. They can name a tradition, such as a countdown or making a resolution.
Common Misconceptions: Students may confuse New Year’s Day with New Year’s Eve or think both occur on January 1. They may assume every culture celebrates the new year in the same way.
How to Assess It: Give students a blank January calendar and ask them to mark New Year’s Day. Then ask, “Why is this day called New Year’s Day?”

Lesson moves

Have students place month cards in order, then circle January 1 on a classroom calendar.
Ask students to draw and write one goal they would like to work toward during the new year.
Play a calendar relay where teams find January 1 and sort pictures into New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day.
Compare photographs of two family or community New Year celebrations and list what is the same and different.

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