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Week 11 · Ready for Anything

Friday

Review: ready for anything
// Know it, ask for help, and have a plan
⏱ about 15 min

Friday: Review: ready for anything

Rosie the Rabbit cartwheels into the den. "Bruce! Facts, helpers, scrapes, plans! You are ready for anything!"

Freddy the Frog hops onto the chart, his knee bandage still neat. "Review time. Three facts at home. Stop, stay, look, ask. Stop, wash, cover, tell. Two ways out."

Bruce stretches. "Ready is not a day. It is a habit." Freddy grins. "Then let us see the habit, Helper."

The week in one look

  1. Three facts, learned at home and said out loud, never typed.
  2. Lost: stop, stay, look, ask a safe helper, wait.
  3. Scrape: stop, wash, cover, tell.
  4. Fire plan: two ways out, a meeting spot, stay out, a grown-up calls for help.
FREDDY'S QUICK QUIZ
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Where do your three facts live?
You lose sight of your grown-up. First step?
Which step comes right after Wash?
How many ways out of each room?

Three plans, one shape

Did you notice? All three plans this week start the same way. Stop.

Stop when you are lost. Stop when you are hurt. Leave right away, then stop at the meeting spot.

Being ready means knowing the first step so well that your body just does it.

PlanFirst stepLast step
LostStop where you areWait with a safe helper
ScrapeStop and sit downTell a grown-up
FireLeave right awayA grown-up calls for help
PUT THE LOST PLAN IN ORDER ONE MORE TIME.
  • ?Stop
  • ?Ask a safe helper
  • ?Look around
  • ?Wait with the helper
  • ?Stay and count to twenty
WHY THIS EXERCISEFive steps you can do with your heart beating fast.
What sign on a shirt tells you someone works at a store?
What temperature of water washes a scrape?
Where is the meeting spot?
Who calls for help in the fire plan?
StatementTrue or false?
You may leave with a stranger who knows your name.?
You tell a grown-up about every scrape.?
You never go back inside once you are out.?
Being ready is something you do once and forget.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEHabits are built by practice. That is what this week was.
Bruce said ready is not a day. What did he say it is?
WHY THIS EXERCISEA habit is what you do without having to decide. That is being ready.
Try it
Tell a grown-up the first step of each plan: lost, scrape, fire.
Then say the last step of each one.

Rosie is cheering and Freddy is nodding. Tomorrow is Family Helper Day: a ready walk-through with your grown-up.

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