The Social Studies curriculum for the Lower School allows students to gain exposure and a better understanding of the world around them. Claremont Prep students have a more advanced and detailed grasp of their city as well as the other cultures that make up the New York area. New Yorkers live in a city filled with a richness of cultures like no other, thus affording the opportunity to appreciate its greatness.
Kindergarten
Classroom/school community
Self and other, family, needs and wants
First Grade
Review of self, family and school community
Mapping skills
Manhattan and an introduction to the Boroughs
Second Grade
New York City neighborhoods: Financial District, Chinatown, Little Italy
and the Lower East Side
Immigration
Ellis Island visit
Third Grade
Native American studies
Early exploration and settlement of the New World
Fourth Grade
Colonial America, the Revolution, the Constitution, growth of America's West,
Lewis and Clark Expedition
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