August 12, 2009: Safety Rules Shuffle

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Activities:

1. Make a collage. Paste newspaper words that describe a good safety patrol on a piece of paper.

2. What rules do you follow every day? What three rules will you work to better follow this year?

3. Choose three comic strip characters who would make good safety patrols. Tell why you chose each one.

4. Which of the safety rules in today's Mini Page tell you to (a) pay attention, (b) be courteous, (c) have good equipment, and (d) listen to others?

5. Pretend you are a school safety patrol. Write a story about your experience on the first day of school.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standards:

• Students understand how rules in school are related to principles of responsibility. (Social Studies: Civics)
  
  (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)