Getting Started

1. Take out your Social Studies notebook and fill in

your Table of Contents with the following
information:
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Habits

2. Staple your exit ticket to p 50 or 51.

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Students will define habits and how to

develop small but good ones by creating
a good habit to work on for the week.

Success Criteria

I can define a habit.

I can create a good habit that I am going to work
on this week.

A Habit!!

Vocabulary

Habit - Something you do

without thinking
Virtue - Good habit
Vice - Poor habit

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What Are Habits?

A habit is something you do without thinking.
We establish many important habits early in life.
For example, crawling, walking, and speaking.
Later we develop others, such as the way we
treat others or do our work.
Habits can be divided into two types, virtues or
vices.

Small But Good Habits

Wash your hands during the
day.
Greet people with a smile.
Never pass on an
unpleasant story about
someone.
Hold the door for others.
Ask your parents, Is there
anything I can do?

Small But Good Habits

Wash your hands during the day.
When I am done eating, I will wash my hands.
Greet people with a smile.
When I say good morning, I will smile.
Hold the door for others.
When I am in school, I will hold the door for others.
Ask your parents, Is there anything I can do?
When I see my Mom setting the table, I will do it for her.

Small But Good Habits

In groups, brainstorm and create a list, of at least three
other small but good habits.
For example
I want to drink more water.
Choose one small but good habit you are going to work on
this week. Write down the habit. Use a two part sentence
to state how you will practice this habit.
When I wake up in the morning, I will drink a glass
of
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water.

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Success Criteria

I can define a habit.

I can create a good habit that I am going to work
on this week.