Habit 3-Put First Things First
After reading the January Habit 3 story, Put First Things First, I decided we should spend a bit more time identifying what the important things are in each of our lives?
On Friday, we began by watching a very cool video that made the abstract idea of time management very visual and real for the third grade students. Please take the time to check it out by clicking on The Jar of Life link below.
Once we discussed the significance of the video we charted somethings that are sand, pebbles and rocks in our own lives. Then each student had time to think about the big rocks in his/her life. We wrote significant words on the big rocks and glue those to our jars first, leaving some space for the pebbles and sand.
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| Ask your child, "What Are Your Big Rocks? |
The students really seemed to understand the idea of working before playing in order to get the most important people and things taken care of before all of the time in a day is used up. Now practice makes perfect, so I'll continue to remind students to put first things first at school, and you can feel free to remind your child of this very important habit at home as well!
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