WEEK 2 - PRACTICAL LIVING Having a Good Work Ethic Q, MATERIALS: Cleaning supplies for whatever jobs you come up with, a board to write on and a writing utensil This practical living begins with an experiential learning exercise. Experience is an important part of their learning! Please skip it! don’t Have practical living in the place where you normally have snack or a place that you can get a little messy. Before the students come in to the practical living area, make a few messes that will be easy to clean up, but not too easy. Here are some examples: cookie crumbs that need to be swept or vacuumed small piece of paper, like the ones out of a hole punch, spilt on the floor something in the sink like chocolate syrup or pancake syrup that needs to be wiped down something written on a dry erase board that needs to be erased books scattered that need to be put on a shelf You want the job to be something that they could do and say they did it, but they could have not done as good of job as someone who was looking for details. For example: They could have picked up the books and put them on the shelf and they would have fulfilled what you asked them to do, but are all the books straight, are they facing the right direction, are they in order by height, and are they pulled to the front of the shelf. Have the jobs already decided and have them assigned to each class so that when they walk in they can find out their job and they can do it as quickly as possible. When they come in, tell them that the room is a little messy today and you need them to help you clean up first before we get started. Each class should have two jobs that they are responsible for getting done. Read off the class names and the two things that they are to do and tell them they have five minutes to complete their job. Tell them when they think that both of their jobs are done, come and sit down for practical living. When everyone comes to sit down, begin with the youngest and move to the oldest. Have the little ones tell you what job they had and go over to their area and inspect their work. Tell them the things that you like about what they did and some things they could have done better.
WEEK 2 - PRACTICAL LIVING Q, Having a Good Work Ethic MATERIALS: Cleaning supplies for whatever jobs you come up with, a board to write on and a writing utensil This practical living begins with an experiential learning exercise. Experience is an important part of their learning! Please don’t skip it! Have practical living in the place where you normally have snack or a place that you can get a little messy. Before the students come in to the practical living area, make a few messes that will be easy to clean up, but not too easy. Here are some examples: cookie crumbs that need to be swept or vacuumed small piece of paper, like the ones out of a hole punch, spilt on the floor something in the sink like chocolate syrup or pancake syrup that needs to be wiped down something written on a dry erase board that needs to be erased books scattered that need to be put on a shelf You want the job to be something that they could do and say they did it, but they could have not done as good of job as someone who was looking for details. For example: They could have picked up the books and put them on the shelf and they would have fulfilled what you asked them to do, but are all the books straight, are they facing the right direction, are they in order by height, and are they pulled to the front of the shelf. Have the jobs already decided and have them assigned to each class so that when they walk in they can find out their job and they can do it as quickly as possible. When they come in, tell them that the room is a little messy today and you need them to help you clean up first before we get started. Each class should have two jobs that they are responsible for getting done. Read off the class names and the two things that they are to do and tell them they have five minutes to complete their job. Tell them when they think that both of their jobs are done, come and sit down for practical living. When everyone comes to sit down, begin with the youngest and move to the oldest. Have the little ones tell you what job they had and go over to their area and inspect their work. Tell them the things that you like about what they did and some things they could have done better.
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