# Lesson 236: Helping at home project

❤️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (40 Lessons) • 🟠 E. Growing Together

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## Objective

I can plan and start a simple helping-at-home project. I can choose small jobs I can do, work with my family, and notice how it feels to help.

## Materials

- Plain paper or a notebook page
- Crayons or colored pencils
- Optional: stickers or small symbols to mark completed jobs

## Mini-lesson — Why do we help at home?

Home is a place where people live together. There are jobs to do so everyone can be safe, clean, and comfortable.

What does helping at home mean?

- Doing small jobs you can do safely.
- Sharing the work so grown-ups do not have to do everything.
- Showing care for the people you live with.

Examples of child-sized jobs

- Putting toys back in the toy box.
- Carrying your plate to the sink with an adult watching.
- Placing dirty clothes in the laundry basket.
- Helping to tidy books or shoes into their places.

Helping and safety

- Some jobs are for grown-ups only, like using sharp knives or very hot pans.
- Children can help with safe parts of a job, like handing over clean spoons or wiping a table.
- We always ask an adult before starting a new job.

How helping feels

- Helping can make you feel proud and useful.
- Helping can make others feel seen and supported.
- Helping can turn a hard job into teamwork.

Helping-at-home project

- A project is a plan you follow for a short time.
- A helping-at-home project might be: "This week I will help with toys, table, and laundry".
- You can make a simple chart or picture to track your helping.

Adults can say: "We are a team at home. Let us choose a few safe jobs you can help with, and we will notice your effort together."

Picture strip: "Helping-at-home chart"

## Guided Practice — Plan our helping-at-home project

You and an adult will plan a simple helping project for one day or one week.

1. Talk together about safe jobs the child can do at home (for example, toys, table, laundry, or shoes).
2. On a page, draw a small picture of your family and write the words "We are a helping team".
3. Under the picture, draw three boxes in a row. In each box, write or draw one job the child will try this week.
4. Next to each job, draw three tiny circles or squares. These will be marks to show when the job is done.
5. Decide how long the project will last (for example, "three days" or "all week").
6. Practise a simple helping sentence together, such as: "I can help with my toys" or "We share the work at home".
7. Each time the child does a job, colour in one circle or square. At the end, look at the chart and talk about how the helping went and how it felt.

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## Practice — My helping-at-home picture

Use this practice to help your child visualise their helping jobs and remember how they felt.

1. On a new page, draw a big house shape. At the top, write or trace the words "I help at home".
2. Inside the house, draw three rooms or areas, such as "bedroom", "kitchen", and "living room".
3. In each area, draw or write one job you can do there (for example, "put toys away", "wipe the table with an adult", "stack books").
4. Add one small helping symbol near each job: a heart, a star, or a little smiley face.
5. At the bottom of the page, draw a small picture of yourself and a family member working together. Add a speech bubble that says "We are helping as a team".
6. Talk with an adult about which job you already do and which job you want to try next.
7. Keep the picture where you can see it (for example, on a bedroom wall or the fridge) as a reminder that your helping matters.

## Quick Check — Helping at home

Answer each question about helping, responsibility, and family teamwork.

1) What does it mean to help at home?

Make more mess and wait for others to clean it. Do small, safe jobs to care for your home and family. Only play and never listen to adults.
Helping means sharing the work in safe, age-appropriate ways.

2) Which is an example of a child-sized job?

Cooking on a hot stove by yourself. Using a sharp knife with no adult. Putting your toys back in the toy box.
Toy tidying is a safe, child-sized job.

3) Why is it helpful to share work at home?

So one person does not feel too tired or alone with all the jobs. So there is more noise and arguing. So only the child does all the work.
Sharing work turns jobs into teamwork.

4) Before you start a new job at home, what should you do?

Do it secretly and hope it is safe. Ask an adult and listen to their instructions. Only watch and never try to help.
Asking first helps keep everyone safe.

5) How might helping make you feel?

That you are not part of the family. Like your effort does not matter at all. Proud, useful, and connected to your family team.
Helping can build pride and connection.

6) Which sentence matches a good helping-at-home project?

"This week I will help with my toys, the table, and the laundry basket." "This week I will do nothing and let everyone else work." "This week I will do dangerous jobs alone."
Projects are simple plans with safe, clear jobs.

7) Your grown-up is folding clean clothes. What could you do to help?

Throw the clothes on the floor. Hand them shirts or carry folded clothes to a safe place. Hide the basket so the job is harder.
Children can help with safe parts of laundry jobs.

8) If you forget to help one day, what could you do?

Decide you are bad and stop trying. Get angry at your family. Notice it, say "I can try again tomorrow", and plan your next helping time.
Projects are about trying and learning, not being perfect.

9) Which sentence matches the goal of this lesson?

"I can plan and do small jobs to help my family." "I should never help at home." "Helping is only for grown-ups."
The lesson encourages children to take part in caring for home.

10) Who can you talk to about your helping-at-home project?

No one. It must be a secret. A parent, carer, or family member who can plan and celebrate with you. Only people you want to make feel bad.
Projects work best when we plan and celebrate them with trusted adults.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can say in simple words what it means to help at home. Student can name at least one safe, child-sized job they can do. Student can explain why sharing work at home is helpful. Student can describe how helping at home can make them and others feel. Student can join a short helping-at-home project with adult support.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I am ready to help at home in small ways. 🙂 I know some helping jobs, but I still need practice. 😅 Helping at home still feels tricky for me.

#### Next time I will practise…

Putting toys away when I finish playing Helping with one safe job in the kitchen Saying "Thank you" to someone who helps me
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