Middle School Life Skills Sub Plans, Week Long Emergency Sub Plans, No Prep, 5 Days, 61 Pages

Saving money, planning time, speaking up: your class keeps practicing all week. These life skills sub plans are middle school emergency sub plans for a full week: five no prep life skills review sets for 6th, 7th and 8th grade, one per day for every period, ready as long term sub plans or a life skills sub binder. Each set is everyday practice with worked examples on money basics, time management, communication skills, healthy habits and basic safety, and kindness and teamwork, plus life skills team tasks, optional review games, a daily life skills vocabulary block and answer keys, so any sub can run it. No tech needed. Print and go for a planned absence, a sub tub, a substitute teacher binder, or emergency lesson plans on a sick day.

Perfect For

• A full week out: sick leave, a conference, jury duty, a family emergency
• A sub who does not know your subject or your class
• Teachers with several Life Skills sections: one set covers every period that day
• Your sub tub or emergency sub folder, ready before you need it
• Long term subs who need a first week that runs itself

How It Works

1. Print the binder and leave it on your desk. The week plan on page 4 is already filled in, with page numbers and minutes for every set.
2. Monday’s set runs in every period you teach on Monday, Tuesday’s set on Tuesday, and so on. The calm vocabulary block fits any gap, the team task fills a block period, and the game is optional fun for the last 15 minutes.
3. Every set stands alone, so the plan is only a sample order: swap sets between days, or use one with another class when it fits. Each set opens with a line that says what it reviews.
4. Every answer is in the key, so the sub needs no subject knowledge.
5. Prefer your own order? A blank weekly schedule is included.

What’s Inside: 61 Pages

• A sub binder front section: a note to the substitute, the week plan already filled in Monday to Friday with page numbers, a blank weekly schedule, class list and dismissal, a “how it went” sheet, and a Monday opener (Meet Your Sub)
• Life Skills set 1, Money Basics: reviews earning, saving and spending, a saving goal plan, unit prices, making change, checking versus savings accounts
• Life Skills set 2, Time Management: reviews reading a weekly schedule, free time and time blocks, estimating task time, urgent versus important, planning a project backward from a due date
• Life Skills set 3, Communication Skills: reviews active listening, summing up what you heard, clear and polite messages to a teacher or coach, asking for help, tone and body language
• Life Skills set 4, Healthy Habits and Basic Safety: reviews everyday sleep, water, activity and screen habits, kitchen and home safety, safe walking and biking, when to call 911 or tell an adult
• Life Skills set 5, Kindness and Teamwork: reviews team roles, giving and receiving kind, specific and useful feedback, including others, solving a team problem fairly
• Life Skills team tasks, one per day (about 40 minutes, groups of four): Where Does the Week Go?; The Picnic Plan; The Fold-Up Wallet; Plan the Saturday; The Paid Chores Debate
• Optional Life Skills games for the last 15 minutes, a fun way to end the class or something for extra time, with life skills questions for grades 6 to 8: Whiteboard Quiz Game; Paper Password; Class Feud; Classroom Millionaire; Mystery Box
• A calm vocabulary block for each day, for early finishers or a loud moment: students learn 8 new life skills terms, turn the page over and test themselves quietly (match, word hunt, story gaps, unscramble, mystery word), then check with the answer strip: Learn and Test: Money Words; Learn and Test: Time Words; Learn and Test: Communication Words; Learn and Test: Safety and Habit Words; Learn and Test: Teamwork Words
• Answer keys for every set, vocabulary test, team task and game

Here is a quick look at the kit: