"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
Riya gets late for school every day. She should
A. Wake up as soon as the morning alarm ring
B. Sleep very late in the night
C. Blame the school bus driver
D. Blame her parents.
Question 2
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.
Question 3
We should -------------------offer our seat to an elderly person in the bus.
A. Never
B. Sometimes
C. Always
D. None of these
Question 4
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 5
Rahul is eager to meet his grandparents who are expected to come next month. On returning from school, he saw his grandparents two weeks before the expected date of their arrival.
Rahul must be ---------------------to see them.
A. Surprised
B. Sad
C. Angry
D. Disappointed