Grade K Lesson at a Glance: Unit 2, Lesson 2

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
The World I See

Lesson at a Glance
Unit 2, Lesson 2: Jobs at Home (pp. 36-39)

The Big Idea
Framework Concepts: Responsibility and Roles Illustrations of the different ways families help each other are used to help students recognize the importance of sharing responsibility at home.

Give students several self-adhesive notes. On chart paper, draw simple headings to represent jobs children might do at home (broom for cleaning, bed for making a bed, dish for setting the table or helping with dishes). Have each student place a note in the columns of the chart that show job(s) they help to do at home. (If placed end-to-end, the note columns become a bar graph.) Use the completed chart to compare and discuss the jobs students do at home.

Check for Understanding

Have students fold and staple two large sheets of construction paper to make a Helping Book. They can illustrate a cover and then on each page of the book, they can write a heading at the top: Morning, Afternoon, and Night. Students then illustrate ways they help at home during each of these times of the day.
Have pairs of students role play scenes of family members doing various jobs at home. Other students guess the job and tell in what room in the home the job is done.

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