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Our Families® (Grade 1) is designed to provide practical information about family members and their interdependence. This program is delivered as a series of five 30-minute activities recommended for students in grade one. The self-contained program kit includes detailed activity plans for the volunteer and materials for 30 students.
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One:Our Families
The students better understand what a family is by studying a poster. They discover how people in a family are alike and different and how they work together to make the place where they live a good place to live.
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- Identify what a family is
- Recognize how people live and work together in a family
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Two:Our Families’ Needs and Wants
The students become aware that all families must have food, clothing, and shelter to live, and they begin to understand the difference between a want and a need.
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- Explain the difference between a want and a need
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Three:Finding Our Families’ Needs and Wants
The students use a floor map to discover where members of a family would go to obtain their wants and needs.
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- Interpret map symbols
- Place various symbols for business and services on a map
- Recognize how family members depend on businesses to provide their wants and needs
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Four:Our Families’ Jobs
The students learn how jobs provide for family members’ wants and needs. They draw pictures of family members doing their jobs.
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- Review the difference between a want and a need
- Identify places where people work
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Five:Our Families’ Tools
The students learn about important skills people need for the workforce. They identify and describe some common tools and associate each with the skills it requires.
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- Become familiar with the meaning of tools and skills
- Recognize that jobs require such skills as reading, writing, using numbers, and listening
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