Responsibilities in your home

All members in a family have responsibilities in their home.

What kinds of responsibilities do you have in your bedroom?

Make your bed

Put away your clothes

Keep it clean

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How about your responsibilities in the kitchen?

Clean up after yourself

Put away dishes

Be safe around the stove when it is hot

Use the correct tool for the job

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What about your responsibilities in the family room?

Keep your shoes on the floor

Keep the volume on the TV at a responsible level

Watch shows that are educational / fun

Sit in your seat. Not someone else's.

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What about your responsibilities in the bathroom? If you use all the toilet paper get a new roll.

Keep the toilet seat down after using the toilet.

If you make a mess clean it up.

Put your clothes in the laundry room when you get out of the shower.

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What about your responsibilities in the laundry room?

Bring all your dirty clothes to the laundry room

Separate your whites from the colors.

Don’t use to much detergent because a little goes a long way

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Do you have any other rooms in your house that you have responsibilities for? What are they?

Office

Porch

The yard.

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Classroom activity: Look on page 86. What are some responsibilities your classmates have?

Use this time to ask each other what kind of tasks they do at home. Don’t forget to put a mark next to the responsibility that they do.

Once you have asked everyone in the classroom about the 10 different tasks, then pick the top 5 tasks and fill out the graph.

Page 87.

Ask someone in your family about how you may be able to help more at home.

1. draw and write about two jobs they suggested.

2. complete the table below about the two jobs.