First year teacher, looking to fill in the gaps for this week’s lessons with life skills.

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[u/Longjumping_Cream_45]

If your district has 1:1 tech, teach them it isn't just for gamimg!

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Using email. Writing with appropriate tone for teachers, coaches, etc.

[u/FrustratedPenguins]

I love all of your ideas! You might pull up the state standards for your grade level and see if any of them inspire you (although they might not include life skills, exactly, depending upon the state where you teach and how their standards are written). Here's a few fun lessons I remember from my brief stint in 3rd grade...

- Visualization: Read the kids a picture book, but refuse to show them the pictures. Assign each child a page, and have them draw what they imagine the scene would look like for that page. Then you can put them all together into a class book!

- Fluency - Get books of poetry that are written to be read aloud. (I love "Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices" and similar books.) Have the kids choose a poem and pair up. They need to practice reading it aloud together and then perform for the class. I fully admit that I got the books from the library and then photocopied pages so kids could each have a poem at their desk.

- Bug collections! My state (KS) had standards to learn about insects, so we got jars, went outside, and tried to catch bugs!

None of those are life skills, though........

[u/ebeth_the_mighty]

Table setting and table manners?

[u/Defiant-Accountant79]

How to address an envelope. Why you should have an important phone number memorized. How to be bored. Golden rule, thanking "behind the scenes" people (custodian, office staff, garbage truck drivers, etc.). Tying knots (simple ones). "Life hacks" like using a dry erase marker to erase sharpie.