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Grade 1 Life Skills: topics by term

Grade 1 Life Skills: what the CAPS curriculum covers in each of the four terms, with the official documents to download and ways the AlignWellz AI tutor can help.

Grade 1 Life Skills topics by term

CAPS says the Life Skills topics are suggested and teachers may adapt them. Creative Arts and Physical Education are taught every term; their detailed activities are in the official document.

Term 1

Beginning Knowledge and Personal and Social Well-being

  • Me
  • At school
  • Healthy habits
  • The weather

Creative Arts

  • Performing Arts
  • Visual Arts

Physical Education

  • Physical Education

Term 2

Beginning Knowledge and Personal and Social Well-being

  • My family
  • Safety in the home
  • My body
  • Keeping my body safe

Creative Arts

  • Performing Arts
  • Visual Arts

Physical Education

  • Physical Education

Term 3

Beginning Knowledge and Personal and Social Well-being

  • My community
  • Pets
  • Manners and responsibilities
  • Plants and seeds
  • Food

Creative Arts

  • Performing Arts
  • Visual Arts

Physical Education

  • Physical Education

Term 4

Beginning Knowledge and Personal and Social Well-being

  • Homes
  • Picture maps
  • Water
  • The sky at night

Creative Arts

  • Performing Arts
  • Visual Arts

Physical Education

  • Physical Education

Source: CAPS Life Skills Grades R-3, Section 3 (outline of course material).

How the AlignWellz tutor helps with Life Skills

  • Your child picks Life Skills, a term and a topic and the tutor knows what they are working on. They can also type, speak or upload a photo of their homework.
  • The tutor guides step by step instead of just handing over answers, and explains things a different way if something doesn't click.
  • Your child's own school worksheets, homework and textbooks always come first; CAPS is a guide, not a rule.
  • Parents see time spent in Life Skills on the parent dashboard.

AI can make mistakes, so it works best alongside your child's teacher and textbook.

Official downloads

These files are hosted by the Department of Basic Education, so you always get their current version. Workbooks are large PDFs, best downloaded on Wi-Fi.

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Grade 1 Life Skills: common questions

What's new in Grade 1 Life Skills compared with Grade R?

According to the CAPS documents, these topics appear in Grade 1 that were not named in Grade R: Healthy habits, The weather, Safety in the home, Keeping my body safe, My community, Pets, Manners and responsibilities, Plants and seeds, Food, Homes, Picture maps and The sky at night. Everything else builds on topics your child has already met.

Which Life Skills topics run through the whole of Grade 1?

Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Physical Education appear in all four terms, so they are worth practising little and often rather than only before tests.

Is the order of topics the same at every school?

Not necessarily. CAPS is the national framework, and the order of topics inside it is not prescriptive, so the term-by-term plan here is the Department of Basic Education's suggested sequence. Your child's school (or your homeschool plan) may teach topics in a different order, so check with their teacher. AlignWellz puts your child's own worksheets, homework and textbooks first.

Can an AI tutor help with Grade 1 Life Skills?

Yes. Your child can ask the tutor about Life Skills by typing or speaking, or attach a photo of a worksheet or homework (a clear JPG, PNG or WebP). The tutor is designed to guide step by step and check understanding rather than just hand over answers, and it puts your child's own school material first. They can also pick a term and topic from this page so the tutor knows what they are working on. AI can make mistakes, so it works best alongside your child's teacher and textbook.

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