Community & Civic Education
Check-In
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High Priority Vocabulary
Objective: Correctly spell the days of the week.
Presenters: See if anyone can name all seven days of the week. Then, see if seven participants are each able to spell one day of the week.
Look *A Spelling Challenge. You should have received a printed copy of this. Let’s complete the top section together.
Presenters: Open the document and share your screen. Use the annotate feature to complete the top section of the worksheet together.
Try to fill out the rest of the worksheet on your own, and then go over your answers with your group.
Show & Share
Our theme for September is work and labor! This week we are sharing about jobs.
Some jobs we can do at or from our homes, but many jobs require us to go somewhere else. What’s one job you’ve had in the community? If you have not had a job in the community, share about a job that you have interviewed for, or a job that you are interested in.
Tomorrow’s show and share: We learn a lot at work. Tomorrow we'll talk about things you learned so well, at a job, that you know you are an EXPERT at them.
Body Break
You know what to do.
Life Skills Story: The Winter Wonder Bakers
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: Who is leaving? Why? What do Hannah and her friends decide to do?
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
Stretch and drink some water.
PRESENTERS: The links embedded in text below are visual reminders. If you choose to open them, remember that CTRL and the W key close an open window and bring you back to this page.
Thematic Connection: Dressing for the Occasion
Last week, we talked about the importance of dressing appropriately for the weather. When we select our clothes for the day, we should pay attention to how hot it is and whether it’s raining. Do you remember what temperature and precipitation mean?
This week, we will learn about how formality and occasion affect how we dress. When we go to work or fancy dinner parties, those are formal settings, so it is usually expected that we dress nice or dress up a little. At other times, we may need to wear uniforms, and we often need to dress in a certain way for certain activities, like swimming.
Objective: Identify articles of clothing that are appropriate for difference occasions.
Here is a little game we can play: Dress for the Occasion. Identify which place the person is going to and explain your reasoning.
- PRESENTERS: Open the link and click the “PRESENT” button on the top right of the slide in order for the animations to work.
- Then share your screen.
- After everyone makes their guess, click the screen, and an arrow will appear and reveal the answer.
- Discuss why the person dressed appropriately for the occasion and why they might not be dressed appropriately for other events or activities.
- When you’re ready, click the screen again to advance to the next slide.
- To close the presentation use the EXIT button on the control bar or ESC key on a laptop/computer.
After you’ve finished that game, we have another game to play:
Everyone, grab something that would be appropriate to wear to work. Then share what you chose and why it is a good choice. We often need to dress in a certain way for work, and different jobs require us to dress differently. So make sure that you not only share which clothes you grabbed, but also tell everyone what jobs that clothing would be appropriate for. (You don’t want to show up to your business job dressed for your job as a life-guard at the pool!)
Round 2: Imagine you are going to watch your favorite sports team play a game. Grab something you might wear to the game and share why it is a good choice.
Round 3: Imagine that it is a Saturday and you plan to stay home and relax all day. Grab something you would wear and share why it is a good choice.
Round 4: Imagine that you are going to a movie with your friends. Grab something you would wear and share why it is a good choice.
What did we learn today?
Story Quiz Answers
- C: She got a job as a professor.
- C: a giant cupcake
- A: flour
- C: promotion
- B: university
- C: Happy Birthday, Kelly. From Maysie.
- C: Place the hotdog in an open cereal bowl.
- C: flour
- A: ring tone
