Home Alone: Grades 3 - 5
Objective - To identify safe practices when a child is home alone Duration One 45-minute period Materials Yes/No cards . . .
- To identify safe practices when a child is home alone
DurationOne 45-minute period
MaterialsYes/No cards (index cards)
PreparationPrepare a yes card and a no card for every member of the group.
- Discuss with the group the importance of safe practices when they are at home alone.
- Tell the children that they will watch skits performed by their peers and decide if the decisions made were good or bad by holding their yes or no card respectively.
- Have children role-play the following situations:
- You are at home alone when a friend calls and asks to come over to play.
- You are at home with your younger brother. A friendly neighbor whom you recognize but do not know personally asks to use your phone because his is not working.
- You are home alone. A stranger calls and asks to talk to your mother.
- You and your younger sister are playing when she falls and cuts her leg. It is bleeding and looks very serious.
- You are coming home from school alone and notice an electric company repairperson working on the porch light. Your father did not tell you that a repairperson would be working at your home.
- Children hold up their yes or no card to show their agreement or disagreement with actions taken. Discuss how each situation could have been handled differently.
- Have the children create their own role plays until everyone in the group has had a change to particpate.