Skills Workbook:
Grade 2
Name: Class:
Terms 1 and 2
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Life Skills
Workbook 1
Terms 1 and 2
Grade 2
CAPS aligned
H Erasmus
Activity 1: What we need to live
Healthy food
Our bodies need healthy food for energy. We must eat healthy food from each food group every day.
Write down 6 types of healthy food.
Activity 2: What we need to live Water
We use water for different purposes – we drink it, wash with it, we use it to clean the house, and many other things. Plants and animals also need water.
Did you know?
We can only survive for 3 days without water. Complete the sentences by writing the correct word on the line.
Activity 3: What we need to live
Where do we ±nd water? Write the correct word under each picture.
fountain well borehole
dam river windmill
Activity 4: What we need to live
Clean air
The air we breathe contains many particles. We breathe in oxygen that gives our bodies enough energy. Polluted air contains many other particles, which we also breathe in. This prevents our bodies from working at their best.
Complete the sentences by writing the correct word on the line.
Activity 5: What we need to live
Many things pollute the air. How can we help to keep the air clean? Draw pictures to show your solution for each cause of air pollution. Be creative – your solutions do not have to be realistic.
Factory smoke pollutes the air. Veld ±res create a lot of smoke.
Erupting volcanoes shoot smoke and ash into the air. Car exhaust fumes pollute the air.
Cigarette smoke causes air pollution.
Aeroplane exhaust fumes pollute the air.
Activity 6: What we need to live Sunlight
Did you know that we get vitamin D from sunlight? Vitamin D is important for building strong bones. Complete the sentences by writing the correct word on the line.
Activity 7: Myself and others
Draw a picture of you and your best friend. Give your picture a heading.
Activity 8: Myself and others
Discuss each statement with your friend. Put a or a r in each block.
My friend cares about me.
Sometimes friends hurt each other.
My friend will break my favourite toy and throw it away.
My friend will help me if I get hurt.
My friend will share their toys with me so we can play together.
My friend forgives me when I say sorry for being nasty to them.
My friend pushes me around.
My friend will keep a secret and not tell anyone about it.
My friend will say hurtful things about me behind my back.
Sometimes my friend upsets me, but they will always be my best friend.
Activity 9: Myself and others
Cut out the sentences in the learner aid and paste them in the correct column.
Good behaviour
Bad behaviour
Activity 10: Myself and others
We are all different. Put your ±ngerprint in the block and compare it to your best friend’s ±ngerprint.
My best friend’s name is _____________________.
Our favourite game is ___________________________
The best thing my friend has done for me: _____________________
I know my friend cares about me because ______________________
Colour the picture.
Activity 11: Myself and others
Read the story and talk about it together. Then answer the questions.
Ivan and his friends
Ivan is in Grade 2 in teacher Renet’s class. She taught them to always be kind to others. Ivan is very popular and has many friends, but he does not play with everyone in the class. Peter is one of the children Ivan does not play with. Ivan does not like Peter – he thinks Peter is strange and does not want to mingle with him. Once during break, Peter asks whether he can play with Ivan and his friends. “Of course!” says Ivan because teacher Renet taught them to be kind. “Let’s play hide-and-seek. We can only hide around the rugby ±eld,” says Ivan. He decides that Peter is ‘it’. While Peter stands with his eyes closed, counting, Ivan and his friends run far away from the rugby ±eld. Ivan takes out a pack of cards and he and his friends begin playing. “Peter will be looking for a while!” laughs Ivan. The bell rings and everyone goes back to class. “Where were you? I looked everywhere!” says Peter. Ivan laughs and says, “We can play again during next break ...”
SAMPLE
Did Ivan hurt Peter? ________________________
Did Ivan bully Peter? ________________________
You will not always like everyone, but that does not mean you may be nasty to others.
Activity 12: Myself and others
Write a sentence about each picture. What is happening? Is it right or wrong?
SAMPLE
or r
or r
Activity 13: Everyone is special
I am special
There are no two people on earth who look the same. Even identical twins differ. We all have eyes, ears, a nose, a mouth, arms, and legs, but even so, each person is special in their own way.
Look at the picture and make a or a r in each block.
All the children have two eyes.
All the children have the same colour hair.
All the children have a nose.
All the children have the same size hands.
All the children are the same height.
All the children have a mouth.
Activity 14: Everyone is special
Look in the mirror and draw your face in the box. Draw all the things that make you unique, like freckles, your hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, etc. Write a sentence about what makes you unique.
This is me.
I am special and unique because _______________________________
Activity 15: Everyone is special
How do you feel?
Every day we go through many different emotions. Sometimes you feel sad and sometimes you are happy. Sometimes you get cross and sometimes you just need a hug. That is ±ne, you are allowed to feel this way.
Write a sentence about each emotion and draw a picture in the block.
What makes you happy?
What makes you sad?
What makes you cross?
What makes you proud?
Activity 16: Everyone is special
People who are blind
Sometimes people are born blind or they are in an accident that causes them to go blind. If you are blind, it means you cannot see. But did you know that people who are blind can read? They use a type of writing made of raised dots on paper, which they can feel and ‘read’. This writing is called ‘braille’.
Use the braille alphabet and write this sentence on the line.