Life Skills

Life skills can have a variety of meaning and a variety of choices to choose from. There are a ton of things in my area that I can teach that can be related to life skills or a life long skill in itself. Physical activity is one of the most life long skills someone can have whether it is running,jogging,walking, or just playing a team or individual sport. Being active in todays world is something that is very capable and easy but yet people still decide to sit at home on the couch and watch television or play video games. One thing that I will tell my students is to always get sixty minutes of activity outside or inside whether it is walking, jogging or playing a sport. People need to know the health risks that they are taking when they continue to put off exercise. One of the activities I would like to install in class is actually a take home assignment. I would like to have students log hours or minutes that they and someone or multiple people in the family are doing while being physically active. Students can log their hours and have a parent sign off on it. I will send a newsletter home with the students before hand letting the parents or guardians know what is going on. The lessons that we will be going through in class will be things that they can take home and use with their family or whoever they are being physically active with. So in this case this may not be one specific skill but it is a life skill that can be helpful for the lives of the students and the families in the future.