G5_UnderstandingOurselves

Questions to Ask your Child Home Learning Suggested Home Extensions Key Vocabulary reflection 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. reason attempt evidence reflection conclusion success planning excellence perfection monitoring exponential pursue claim difficulty perseverance achieve deconstruct reason