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Welcome to Safe@Home! Today’s class will help prepare you to be safe while you are home alone.


[Optional: if you are teaching a new group.] My name is ______________ and I’m going to be your Instructor today. [Add information about your profession, your children or family, and your reason for being a facilitator of the Safe@Home program. If there is a second facilitator present, he or she should do the same.]


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I’d like to get to know all of you as well, so I’m going to ask each of you to introduce yourselves by sharing a little bit about yourself. When it’s your turn, I want you to tell everyone your name and what you like to do for fun – maybe a favorite hobby, sport, or activity. [Select a starting point and have the students go around the room until all have introduced themselves.]


3 Now we’re ready to get started. Let’s open our booklets to pages 4 and 5.


Today, we’re going to talk about staying home alone. Raise your hand if you’ve ever stayed home by yourself, even if it was just for 10 minutes while your mom or dad ran an errand. [Reflect on how many students have stayed home alone.]


Whether you are home alone for an hour after school or for an evening while your parents are away from home, it is important that you know how to stay safe.


Do your parents ever tell you to stay away from matches or lighters? (Yes.) Why do they tell you that? (They want you to be safe. Matches and lighters could start a fire.)


Yes, matches or lighters can start a fire, and fires can be dangerous, or even deadly. Staying away from matches or lighters is one thing you can do to keep yourself safe.


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On pages 6 and 7, your booklet has some other things that you should do to keep yourself safe when you are


• inside the house • outside the house • online • with others


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Read the guidelines for Indoor Safety silently, to yourself. [Give students a minute to read the guidelines. As you ask the following questions, give students time to find the answer in their student booklets.]


Is it okay to go outside to play when you’re home alone? (Yes, if you have your parent’s permission.)


What would you do if you were home alone after school and someone knocked at the door? [Let students answer in their own words. Emphasize that they should not answer the door unless they have their parent’s permission, it is someone they are expecting, and they have checked a peephole or door viewer before opening the door to make sure it is the person they are expecting.]


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