Body and Life Skills
Body and life skills on Lessons run from ages 3 to 5 to grade 11. They cover three strands: self and others, staying safe, and body. Topics include feelings and friendship, growing up and peer pressure, road safety on foot and on a bicycle, privacy and decency online, physical education, traffic education before a license, and the volunteering year.
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- Early years – Grade 1
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Areas of Body and Life Skills
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About Body and Life Skills
Self and others starts in preschool with happy, sad, angry and scared, calming down when feelings are big, sharing and taking turns. In grade 4, children learn to name a feeling before acting on it, to say no and hear no, and to make an apology that does its job. Grade 8 covers growing up, pressure and boundaries, and grade 11 prepares for the social involvement volunteering year.
Staying safe begins in grade 1 with stop, look and listen, the zebra crossing and the pedestrian light. Grade 5 covers bicycles and scooters, grade 6 covers privacy, sources and decency online, and grade 11 covers the road before a driver's license, with reaction time and blind spots. Physical education covers movement and games in grade 3 and fitness and team play in grade 8.
The lessons are calm, practical and suited to each age. Lessi, an AI teacher, teaches each topic live: on a board, out loud, with short quizzes, at the student's pace. The first 60 minutes are free with an account, Ask Lessi answers questions from the same free minutes, and topic pages have free printable worksheets.
Common questions
What ages are the life skills lessons for?
From age 3 to grade 11. Preschool lessons cover feelings, friends and staying safe on the street and at home. Elementary school covers friendship, road safety and online safety. Middle and high school cover growing up, fitness, traffic education before a driver's license, and the volunteering year.
Is there road safety for kids?
Yes. Grade 1 covers where the sidewalk ends and the road begins, stop, look and listen, the zebra crossing, being seen in the dark and getting out of the car on the safe side. Grade 5 covers bicycles and scooters, the helmet, cycle lanes, junctions and signaling a turn.
Do you teach online safety to children?
Yes. A grade 6 course on digital literacy covers what a post keeps after you delete it, asking permission before sharing photos and names, passwords, strangers online and what never to send them, checking a claim before passing it on, and decent behavior online.
What does physical education look like here?
Physical education lessons explain the ideas behind movement. Grade 3 covers warming up, running and changing direction, balance, throwing and catching, and passing a ball. Grade 8 covers the parts of fitness, how a training week is built, endurance and body weight strength with good technique.
Are there free life skills worksheets?
Yes. Every topic page has free printable worksheets on the same topics as the lessons. The first 60 minutes of lessons with Lessi are free with an account, and Ask Lessi answers questions from the same free minutes.