Check-In

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High Priority Vocabulary

Objective: Identify the order of the months of the year.

Look at *Marco’s Inventory. You should have received a printed copy of this. 

Presenters: Share your screen, and begin by reading the months as a group. Then, walk through the order of the months. Ask, “What’s the first month of the year? What’s after that?” 

Label each folder with the correct month. For example, April is the fourth month, so make sure folder #4 says April. You can either cut and paste the months from below, or you can write the month’s name on the folder. 

Presenters: After you give the participants some time to fill out their own worksheets, share your screen and use the annotate feature to write the months on Marco’s folders for everyone to see. Also, remember to have the participants share their work! 

Show & Share: Pets!

Show us some supplies that you use with your pet. If you don’t have a pet, what are some things you would need to take care of them? 

Tomorrow’s show and share: Tomorrow we will share experiences or memories of when animals brought us joy or when we volunteered or helped animals. 

Body Break

Get away from your screen for a few minutes and go drink some water. 

Life Skills Story: 15 = Fun x 3!

Objective: Understand the life skills story for the week. (Reading comprehension) 

Presenters: If you didn’t read the whole story on Monday, finish reading it today. If you did finish it, prompt participants to recap the story’s main ideas before you do the quiz. Here are some questions that you may want to ask: What are Hannah, Jade, and Mitch doing? What do they decide on? 

Take the *Story Quiz for this week’s story. You should have received a printed copy of the quiz. 

After you finish the quiz, check your answers. The quiz answers are listed at the bottom of this page. 

Body Break

You know what to do! 

Thematic Connection: Event Planning 

Recall a birthday party, holiday celebration, or other event that you've enjoyed. Who was there? What happened? What work went into planning it? 

Objective: Plan an outing or activity to do with your friends or family. 

As a group, choose an activity that you want to or might need to plan for. Here are some ideas, but feel free to come up with something else as well! After you all choose the event, we will practice planning for it together. 

• A birthday meal or party 
• A holiday celebration 
• A family gathering or reunion 
• Going on a hike or to the beach 
• Hanging out with friends 

Do you need to wait for the pandemic to end before you can safely hold your event? If you want your event to happen before the pandemic is over, what would you need to do so that everyone is as safe as possible? 

As a group, plan for your chosen event. Make sure your plan takes into consideration: 

• What will happen 
• Where it will happen 
• When it will happen 
• Who will be there 
• Transportation: how will everyone get there and get home? 
• Costs: how much will it cost? Who will pay for it? 
• Anything else that people need to bring or prepare 

After you have planned for all of those details, open the Event Invitation and fill in the blanks for your event! 

Presenters: Share your screen and encourage participants to use the annotate feature. 

What did we learn today?

Story Quiz Answers

1. B: They were each born on the 15th of a different month. 
2. C: They talked about things they had done on different years. 
3. C: to a water park 
4. C: session 
5. A: piñata 
6. B: April 
7. C: three months 
8. A: uncle 
9. A: It is when a golfer hits the ball in the hole with one shot.

Today's photo was taken by Chona Kasinger as part of Disabled And Here.