"Life skills" refer to the abilities you need to live a well-mannered existence. Therefore, any skill that is of use to your daily life would be considered a life skill.
In other words, Skills needed to do well and deal effectively with life challenges will be termed life skills.
To learn how to behave politely to elders, eating manners, managing time for study and playing, budgeting money, maintaining their health, and keeping themselves clean are essential life skills a child must know.
Essential Life Skills
Although there is no specified list of skills a child is expected to learn, there are some basic skills they should know, such as:
- Good decision making
- Health and hygiene
- Time management
- Saving money
- Cleaning
- Comparison shopping
- Ordering in restaurants
- Getting ready
- Maintenance around the house
- Study skills
- Communication Skills
From choosing which food to eat or clothes to wear, children should learn these skills from the beginning so that, when a child will reach school age they can begin to learn about rewards of making good decisions and consequences for making the bad decision.
Learning basic life skills helps students become confident and interactive, which are valuable for the rest of their lives.
Life Skills(Moral Values, Team Work, Environmental Sensitivity, Communication, Leadership, Time Management) Sample Questions for Class 3
Question 1
Which of the following is NOT a healthy habit ?
A. Samaira takes stairs, instead of the lift, to reach her apartment.
B. Ruhi watches television for long hours.
C. Anjali eats a fruit every day.
D. Ishaani takes a healthy breakfast everyday.
Question 2
We should -------------------offer our seat to an elderly person in the bus.
A. Never
B. Sometimes
C. Always
D. None of these
Question 3
Your friend goes out for a shopping with his mother in a shopping mall. He get lost in the crowd. What should he do ?
A. He should ask a stranger for help.
B. He should go to a friend's house.
C. He should ask the security guard there to make a call to his parents..
D. He should take a bus and go home.
Question 4
You are going to the market with your mother. In the market, you find an injured puppy. What will you do ?
A. Throw stones at it.
B. Tell the shopkeeper uncle to feed the puppy.
C. Ignore the puppy
D. Ask your mother to take the puppy to the hospital.
Question 5
Your grandma is unable to find her spectacles. What will you do ?
A. You will go out to play with your friends.
B. Your will help your grandma in finding her spectacles.
C. You will tell your gradma to find it herself as you are busy in watching televison.
D. You will shout at her for being careless about her spectacles.