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Set a goal, make a plan

Personal & Social Development · Self-Regulation & Resilience · ages 9-11

Name ______________________ Date ____________

What should you check before choosing a personal goal?
- Whether it is harder than every goal your classmates have chosen.
- Whether it can be reached without making a plan or asking for help.
- Whether it fits your starting point, time and support.
Which running goal names an exact target and a fixed timeframe?
- Get much better at running by the end of the month.
- Run two park laps without stopping by the end of the month.
- Run two park laps without stopping whenever I have enough spare time.
A plan for reaching a goal should include actions you will take toward it.
Circle one: True False
Zoe's goal is to swim 8 laps without stopping. Her chart shows the laps she can swim without stopping each week. How many more consecutive laps does she need to reach her goal after week 4?
Answer: ______________
Sam has all six books in a series and six weeks until winter break. He has time to finish one book each week. Which plan fits his goal of finishing the series by the break?
- Finish one book each week for the next six weeks.
- Leave all six books until the final week.
- Choose covers for the six books without setting any reading time.
Ben planned to shoot 20 free throws every day. After a week his arm feels very tired. What should he do before continuing?
- Keep shooting every day and ignore the tiredness until the goal is reached.
- Add more throws each day and wait to ask for help until he sees progress.
- Stop for now, rest, and tell a trusted adult before continuing.
Jamal has checked that saving part of each allowance can get him to $30 by his birthday. He keeps spending it all first. Which change addresses this problem?
- Record his purchases after spending all his allowance, without putting any money into savings.
- Set aside his planned savings when he gets his allowance, before choosing other spending.
- Keep spending all his allowance first, then check on his birthday whether any money remains.
Priya's goal is to make 12 drawings by Friday. After checking her schedule, she sees she has time to finish four drawings by then. Which change makes her goal fit the available time?
- Change the target to four drawings by Friday and plan time for them.
- Keep the target at 12 drawings and fit them into time for four.
- Keep the target at 12 drawings and stop checking how much time is left.

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Whether it fits your starting point, time and support. · A goal should fit what you can do now, the time available and the support you can get.
Run two park laps without stopping by the end of the month. · Two park laps without stopping is an exact target. By the end of the month is a fixed timeframe.
True · Maya's plan includes supervised practice and recording her laps. These actions help her work toward and review her goal.
3 · At week 4, Zoe can swim 5 laps without stopping. Her target is 8, so the gap is 8 minus 5, or 3 more consecutive laps.
Finish one book each week for the next six weeks. · One book each week uses Sam's six available weeks at the pace he can manage.
Stop for now, rest, and tell a trusted adult before continuing. · Ben should stop and tell a trusted adult about his tired arm. They can review his plan, including time for rest.
Set aside his planned savings when he gets his allowance, before choosing other spending. · Saving the planned amount before other spending addresses Jamal's habit of spending everything before he saves.
Change the target to four drawings by Friday and plan time for them. · Four drawings by Friday matches the time Priya has checked. Revising a target is allowed when the original goal no longer fits.