Social studiesGrade 1ages 6–7
🛣️ Street and neighbours
At six, the words street, neighbour, and home can blur together; this lesson sorts them by where each one actually is: outside, nearby, or inside.
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Download on the App StoreWhat your child learns
- A street is a way outside, between homes.
- Neighbours live nearby — in the home next door, not inside our room.
- Home is the inside we come back to for sleep and food.
- Don't mix them: a street is not a bed, and a neighbour is not the wall.
The mistake most kids make here
Thinking the street is home, or that neighbours live inside the room.
Try one question
A street is…
A street
- the room where we sleep
- a way outside
- a plate on the table
Answer
a way outside — Yes. A street is the way outside.
How Maya teaches it
Your child tells Maya what they did in class. She teaches this topic at her desk, asks questions with tappable answers, and when the answer is wrong she explains why that answer was tempting instead of saying “try again”. She remembers what did not land and comes back to it.
Your child has it when they can: Say what a street is, who a neighbour is, and what home is.
How to help at home
Walk outside your own front door together and name what you see: the street is the path outside, between homes, not a room and not a bed.
Point to a nearby house and explain that the people who live there are neighbours: they live close by, in their own home, not inside your child's own room.
Come back inside and name home as the place you return to for sleeping and eating; it helps to physically walk the boundary, outside on the street, then in through the door, to home.
A good sign they've got it: they don't call the street a bed, and they don't call a neighbour part of the wall; they can point to each one in the right place.
Questions parents ask
- Why is it hard for a six-year-old to tell apart street, neighbour, and home?
- These are all spatial words describing where things are relative to each other, and at this age children are still building a sense of near versus far versus inside. Walking the actual space helps more than explaining it in words.
- What's a simple way to define neighbour for a young child?
- Someone who lives nearby, in their own home, not inside the family's own house. A quick walk to point at a nearby house works well.
- Should I use my own street as the example, or a picture book?
- Your own street works better at this age, since it's something your child can physically walk through and point at, rather than only imagine from a picture.
- How does Maya teach this?
- Maya asks what a street is and offers real options, including a bed and a plate on the table, so the child has to place the word correctly rather than guess.
No card needed. The first lesson is free.
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Sources: Israeli Ministry of Education – Homeland, society and civics curriculum, elementary (in Hebrew)