G5_18-19_Understanding Ourselves

Questions to Ask your Child Home Learning Suggested Home Extensions Key Vocabulary eflection and thinking ahead. ● What are you passionate about doing or learning more about? ● What kinds of jobs do you think might be interesting and fit your interests and strengths? ● What areas would you like to improve? ● What choices are you/we as a family making that impact our physical and emotional wellness? (For example, nutrition, sleep, relaxation, time management.) ● Discuss your own career choice or how you discovered and pursued other areas of interest/expertise ● Help your child learn about possible careers that interest him/her and how one can prepare for them ● Talk to your child about how you balance career, family, hobbies, and other commitments or passions ● Work with your child to improve wellness behaviors such as nutrition, rest, and relaxation (for example, planning healthy meals together, shopping for healthy food, exercising as a family) ● Help your child make an after-school schedule for homework completion, classes, sports, hobbies, play, relaxation, sleep, etc.) ● Try new activities and foods as a family ● Visit community people or places related to your child’s possible career interests or other passions. ● Metacognition ● Reflection ● Planning ● Monitoring