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Life Skills
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H. Amato • J. Calitz • K. Euston-Brown
S. Heese • L. Shaw
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Contents
Term 1
Study area: Personal and Social Well-being
Chapter 1: Personal strengths 4 Study area: Creative Arts
What I am good at 4
Read for enjoyment 6 Performing Arts
Using who I am to become Chapter 5: Dance, drama and music 28
a better me 8 Create rhythmic patterns 28
Identify, explore and appreciate Read rhythmic patterns 32
the strengths of others 9 Rhythm and movement 34
Drama games 36
Chapter 2: Respect for your own and Visual Arts
others’ bodies 10
Chapter 6: Appreciate and create visual art 38
Caring for your body 10
The elements of art 38
Read for enjoyment 12
Using art materials 40
Respecting your body 14
Working with clay 42
Why you respect your own and
others’ bodies 15 Formal Assessment: Personal and Social
Well-being 44
Chapter 3: Dealing with conflict 16
What causes conflict 16 Formal Assessment: Physical Education 46
How to avoid and deal with conflict 17 Creative Arts 47
Read for enjoyment 18
Study area: Physical Education
Chapter 4: Locomotion, rotation, elevation
and balance 20
Warming up and stretching 20
Rotation 22
Keeping your balance 24
Locomotion and elevation 25
Balance and elevation 26
Locomotion and rotation 27
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Term 2
Study area: Personal and Social Well-being Study area: Creative Arts
Chapter 7: Emotions 50 Performing Arts
Showing what you feel 50 Chapter 12: Dance, drama and music 76
Read for enjoyment 52 Musical instruments 76
Emotions you feel 54 Improvise and create your
own musical instrument 78
Chapter 8: Working in a group 56 Sound pictures 80
Learning to work together 56 Reading music 81
How you work in a group 57 Making music together 82
Read for enjoyment 58 Plan dance movement sentences 83
Chapter 9: Bullying 60 Visual Arts
Different types of bullying 60 Chapter 13: Appreciate and create visual art 84
What you can do if you are Looking at lettering 84
being bullied 61 Making art with letters
Read for enjoyment 62 and patterns 86
Mobiles 88
Chapter 10: Children’s rights and responsibilities 64
Formal Assessment: Personal and Social
Children’s rights 64
Well-being 90
Read for enjoyment 66
Children’s responsibilities 68
Formal Assessment: P hysical Education 92
Rights and responsibilities 69
Creative Arts 93
Study area: Physical Education
Chapter 11: Modified invasion games 70
Invasion games 70
Moving with the ball 71
Passing the ball 72
Kicking 73
Defence in invasion games 74
Indigenous invasion games 75
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Term 3
Study area: Personal and Social Well-being Study area: Creative Arts
Chapter 14: Cultures and moral lessons 96 Performing Arts
Different cultural groups in Chapter 18: Dance, drama and music 120
South Africa 96 Respond to words and sounds 120
Read for enjoyment 98 Moving to music 122
Menus from different cultures More musical instruments 123
in South Africa 100 Singing songs 124
Moral lessons 102 Building a drama 126
Chapter 15: Religions in South Africa 104 Visual Arts
Learn about different religions 104 Chapter 19: Appreciate and create visual art 130
Read for enjoyment 106 Animals in art 130
Places of worship and the symbols Wild or domestic animals
of different religions 108 and their environment 132
Create 3D wild or domestic
Chapter 16: Dangers in and around water 110 animals 134
Water safety at home and
Formal Assessment: Personal and Social
around swimming pools 110
Well-being 136
Safety in rivers and dams 111
Read for enjoyment 112
Formal Assessment: Physical Education 138
Creative Arts 139
Study area: Physical Education
Chapter 17: Rhythmic movements 114
Posture and rhythmic stretches 114
Rhythmic gymnastics with ribbons 115
Rhythmic gymnastics with hoops 116
Marching 117
Rhythmic gymnastics with balls 118
Aerobics 119
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Term 4
Study area: Personal and Social Well-being Study area: Creative Arts
Chapter 20: Traffic rules 142 Performing Arts
Traffic rules for road users 142 Chapter 25: Dance, drama and music 166
Read for enjoyment 144 Music 166
Pictures without words 168
Chapter 21: Personal and household hygiene 146 Building a drama on a
Hygiene at home 146 theme 170
Diet and dental hygiene 147 Putting it all together with
Read for enjoyment 148 sounds and songs 172
Chapter 22: Healthy environment and Visual Arts
personal health 150 Chapter 26: Appreciate and create visual art 174
Unhealthy environments 150 Looking at pictures 174
Ways to keep the Mixing colours 176
environment healthy 151 Dream catchers 178
Read for enjoyment 152
Formal Assessment: Personal and Social
Looking after a wetland 154
Well-being 180
Chapter 23: HIV and AIDS education 156
Formal Assessment: Physical Education 182
HIV and AIDS 156
Creative Arts 183
Read for enjoyment 158
Study area: Physical Education
Glossary 184
Chapter 24: Athletics and swimming 160
Field athletics activities 160
Track athletics activities 162
Swimming safely 164
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1 Term 1
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2 4
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Chapter 1–6
What do you know?
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1. What things are you good at?
2. Do you like eating fruit? Do you
know why they are good for you?
3. Do you know what to do when
someone wants to fight with you?
4. How many different ways can you
roll?
5. How many different kinds of dances
do you know? Tell your partner.
6. Can you name all these colours?
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Content covered in Term 1
Chapter 1: Personal strengths, Chapter 2: Respect for your own and others’
bodies, Chapter 3: Dealing with conflict, Chapter 4: Locomotion, rotation,
elevation and balance, Chapter 5: Dance, drama and music, Chapter 6:
Appreciate and create visual art, Formal Assessment
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Chapter
Personal strengths
1
What I am good at
Study area
Personal and Social Everyone is special in some way. Everyone has different
Well-being
things that they are good at. Some people are good at
spelling, singing or running fast. Other people are good
at being kind to others or looking after hurt animals.
Key words
Others are good at making or fixing things.
• special – to be
better or different ACTIVITY 1.1 What you are good at
from others
• personal strength –
what I am good at I can write I am a
good soccer
neatly.
player.
1. Think about what you are already good at.
2. Think about what you are still practising to be good at.
4 Term 1 Development of the self
ActIvIty 1.2 An exciting experience
Tell a partner about something that you have achieved
or experienced because of a personal strength that you
have. Talk about what it felt like. Now listen to your
partner. Talk about what your partner is good at.
ActIvIty 1.3 Draw outlines
1. Draw an outline of both your hands on plain paper.
Cut them out.
2. In the right hand outline, write one thing that you are
good at.
3. In the left hand outline, write one thing that you are
not yet good at.
4. Attach all the right hand outlines to one section of the
classroom wall. Next to them, do the same for the left
hand outlines.
5. Talk about what is written on the outlines.
Development of the self Chapter 1 5
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