Slide outline for Lesson 3.16, one day. Fourteen slides. The eight jobs on slides 3 and 4 each carry one icon and one letter, the same letters printed on Handout 3.16 Part 1, because students write a letter per hour on the clock. Slide 12 is the local supports slide and never gets cut; the 211 number is the one thing every student should leave with. Readiness stays general: age, money, support, patience. It is never about any student's family.
What Parents and Caregivers Do
- Lesson 3.16: Families and Caring for Others
- Unit 3: Growing Up, Getting Along
- Do now, a guess: in a 24-hour day, how many hours does a two year old need an adult paying attention?
- Write the number, and one thing the adult is doing at 3 in the morning
Teacher notes
Hand vote on the guesses: under 8, 8 to 14, 15 or more. Collect the 3 a.m. answers: asleep but listening, up with a sick child, up with a child who wants water.
The answer is closer to 24 than anybody wrote
- Caring for a child is a job that never clocks out
- Today you fill a full day, hour by hour, and count
- Then: what a person needs in place to do the job, and who in this community helps
Teacher notes
Image: a clock face with almost every hour wedge shaded in, one or two left white.
The eight jobs: S, F, H, L
- S Safety: gates, outlet covers, never alone near water
- F Food: three meals and snacks, cut small, no choking foods
- H Health: doctor visits, shots, medicine when sick, sleep
- L Love: holding, talking, being there when they cry
Teacher notes
Image: four icons with their letters, a stair gate, a small plate, a stethoscope, and two figures with the small one being held.
One toddler example each on the handout. Students will use these letters on the clock, so say each letter out loud.
The eight jobs: T, M, money, and time
- T Teaching: words, colors, how to share, what "hot" means
- M Limits: a bedtime, a rule about hitting, a "no" that means no
- $ Money: diapers, food, clothes, child care, the doctor
- C Time: all of it
- Parenting is unpaid work, and it is the biggest job most adults ever do
Teacher notes
Image: four more icons with letters, a block with a letter on it, a stop sign, a wallet, and a full clock face.
Which of the eight does a babysitter do?
- Yes: safety, food, love, limits, time, for a few hours
- Sometimes: teaching
- No: money, and health decisions
- A babysitter does not decide about medicine. A babysitter calls the parent
- Star the babysitter jobs on your handout
Teacher notes
This sets up Lesson 3.17. Take the answers from the room before you show them.
The caregiver clock
- A normal weekday for a two year old. The child is fictional
- Every hour: what the child is doing, what the caregiver is doing, and the job letter
- Anchors: wakes at 6:30, nap 1:00 to 2:30, bed at 7:30
- Work in pairs. One writer, one shader. 12 minutes
Teacher notes
Image: a sun at 6:30, a bed at 1:00, and a moon at 7:30 along a 24-hour strip.
Grade 6 and IEP/504 pairs run 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. or fill twelve hours. Grade 8 fills all 24 and invents a second surprise.
Your surprise card
- Every pair gets one: a fever at 2 a.m., a spilled cup at dinner, or a scraped knee at the park
- It goes on the clock at that hour
- Handle it with a job letter. Do not skip it
- The surprise is the job, not the exception
Teacher notes
Image: three small cards face down, one turned over showing a thermometer.
Every pair's clock comes out different, which is the point. Grade 8 adds a second surprise of their own.
Shade and count
- Shade every hour the caregiver is doing a job for the child
- That includes the sleeping hours: shade them as listening
- Count the shaded hours out of 24
- Write the number next to your do now guess
Teacher notes
Clipboard: every hour has a job letter, the surprise is handled with a job, the count lands between 18 and 24 with sleep hours shaded. A pair that leaves sleep blank gets the question "if the child cries at 3 a.m., who hears it?"
Readiness, and what this part is not
- This is not a lesson on whether or when anyone should have a child
- It is a look at what a person needs in place to do the eight jobs well
- Four things, at a general level
- Nobody talks about their own family or anybody else's
Teacher notes
If a student brings up a family member, the answer is "the clock is for a fictional family; what job is at that hour?"
Four things a person needs in place
- Age: a body and a brain that are done growing, and their own school years finished
- Money: the clock has a cost. Diapers alone run about $70 a month, and child care can cost more than rent [Sal: confirm local figures and mark the month]
- Support: a partner, a parent, a friend, a neighbor. Nobody does 24 hours alone for long
- Patience: the 2 a.m. fever and the spilled cup are the job
- Which of the four does your clock show most clearly?
Teacher notes
One reason each on the handout, from the clock they just filled. Grade 6 does the four words with one class example each.
Community supports
- The pediatrician: checkups, shots, medicine, the "is this normal" phone call
- The school: teaching, meals, the nurse, the counselor
- The public library: free books, story time, a warm place, computers
- WIC: food help for pregnant people, babies, and children under 5 in families that qualify
- 211: one phone number for finding any local help. Food, housing, child care, utilities. Available in many languages
Teacher notes
Image: five plain icons in a row: a stethoscope, a school building, a stack of books, a grocery bag, and a phone with 211 on the screen.
The numbers for this community, and the match
- 211: [Sal: confirm 211 coverage for your county]
- The nearest pediatric clinic: [Sal: name and number]
- The public library branch: [Sal: name and number]
- The county WIC office: [Sal: name and number]
- The family liaison at school: [Sal: name, room ___] and the after-hours nurse line [Sal: number if the district has one]
- On your handout: match each support to one hour on your clock where it would help. Copy 211 and one other
Teacher notes
[Sal: ask the family liaison for the building's own list; it will be better than mine.] If the liaison can take five minutes of this step, let them.
Questions
- Name the eight jobs. Which one is "a bedtime that does not move"?
- On your clock, what job is the caregiver doing at 2 a.m.?
- The clock shows about 24 shaded hours. How is that possible for a person who also works? What has to be true?
- Which of the four readiness things can money not buy?
- If a family needs help and does not know where to start, why is 211 the first call and not the last?
Teacher notes
The "how is that possible" answer is the support line: somebody else covers part of the clock.
Exit card and tomorrow
- 3-2-1 on the handout: 3 of the eight jobs
- 2 community supports and what each does
- 1 sentence: "The caregiver clock surprised me because ___"
- Tomorrow: babysitting. Safety, safe sleep, and what to do in an emergency
Teacher notes
Three students read their "1." Sort into "got it" and "needs more." The "needs more" pile decides whether Lesson 3.17 opens with the eight jobs on the board.