My Home & Neighborhood · Learning goals
Homes come in many shapes, from houses and apartments to tents. Explore a neighborhood and match each place to what happens there.
Why it matters
Learning about local places helps kids understand where they live and how it works.
Seeing different homes builds understanding of how people live around the world.
Knowing neighborhood places is a first step toward maps and directions.
Inside My Home & Neighborhood
A short read-aloud lesson first, then hands-on games and a quiz to lock it in.
Step 1 · Lesson
A short read-aloud lesson in 5 steps.
Step 2 · Think
Why do we need schools and hospitals?
Step 3 · Matching game
Match each place to what happens there.
Step 4 · Quiz
4 questions to check what stuck.
Lesson preview
This is the real lesson text your child hears, read aloud by a friendly voice.
A home is where we live, eat and sleep. It can be a house, an apartment or even a tent!
A neighborhood is the place around your home: streets, shops and parks.
At school we learn. At the hospital, doctors and nurses help sick people.
At the market, people buy food. At the park, we play!
Neighbors help each other. Together they make a community.
For parents
Learning sticks best when kids use it in real life. Here are simple ideas from this course.
Take a walk around your neighborhood and name the places you pass: the store, the park, the school. Ask what happens at each one.
Why do we need schools and hospitals?
Practice
Real questions from My Home & Neighborhood. Try them with your child, then tap to see the answer.
Question 1
School
Question 2
Hospital
Question 3
The place around your home
The full course has 4 questions with instant feedback, stars and rewards. Create a free account to play them all.
My Home & Neighborhood · Questions from parents
My Home & Neighborhood is a grade 1 social studies course for kids ages 6–7. That is Year 2 social studies in the UK and Year 1 in Australia. It also works well for review in the next grade, or as a challenge for a confident younger learner.
Homes come in many shapes, from houses and apartments to tents. Explore a neighborhood and match each place to what happens there. Along the way they practice: Place Match.
About 10 minutes in total, split into 3 short levels. Most kids finish it over two or three sessions. Progress is saved, so they can stop any time and pick up where they left off.
My Home & Neighborhood is part of SkillBloom Premium, which unlocks every course in every subject. Each subject also has free courses, so your child can try SkillBloom before you decide.
No. Every lesson has a friendly read-aloud voice, questions are read aloud too, and the pictures help kids follow along. Confident readers can turn the voice off.
Yes. SkillBloom is built for homeschooling families. Kids work through lessons, games and quizzes on their own, and the parent dashboard shows what they finished and which skills need more practice. It works on phones, tablets and laptops.
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