Community & Civic Education
Check-In
Hello, everyone! What have you been thinking about?
High Priority Vocabulary
Objective: correctly write a check.
Look over the items listed for sale on the Discount Daze 2 handout. You should have received a printed copy of this.
- What is one item that you would like to buy?
- Do you need that item, or do you just want it?
- How much does that item cost? (Try to spell out the number word for its cost. You can spell it out verbally, in the chat, on paper, or using the whiteboard)
Presenters: Open the handout below and share your screen. See if participants can identify all the different sections of a check. Then use the annotate feature to write an example check together. Use the Back to Program Button at the bottom of the page to return to this page.
Look at the Discount Daze 1 handout. It has example checks. Try to write a check for the item that you want to purchase.
Show & Share
Do you have a first aid kit? If you do, share it with the group. Where do you keep it? What’s in it?
If you don’t have one, it’s time to start making one! What’s one or two items that you should put in it?
Tomorrow’s show and share: first aid kits and emergency kits are not always the same thing! Do you have a three-day supply bag for emergencies? If you do, bring it tomorrow! If you aren't sure, or don't have one, bring an empty backpack and we'll discuss what goes in it.
Body Break
You know what to do!
Life Skills Story #4: New Fish
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 is Nina’s new team? What is her new job?
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
Take 10 deep, slow breaths. Remember to rest your eyes as well!
Venn Diagrams: Jobs & Teams
Do you know what a Venn diagram is? When might you see or use one?
Venn diagrams are visual ways to compare and contrast. You use circles to represent different things, and those circles can be separate or overlapping. Inside the circles, you can list different items, examples, attributes, or characteristics.
Here is an example: Things We Like. This Venn diagram lists things that two friends like. What does Maria like? What does Dante like? What do they both like?
Here are some fun examples:
In this week’s Life Skills Story, Nina joins a new team and starts a new job. Let’s compare and contrast how those are similar and different using a Venn diagram.
Objective: Understand similarities and differences between jobs and teams.
What is a job that you have had or want to have? Have you ever been on a sports team or on another type of team (not for work)?
Here is a blank Venn diagram: Jobs and Teams. Can you fill it in together? How are jobs and teams similar and different? You can list both examples and characteristics.
What did we learn today?
Story Quiz Answers
- C: because Nina is a new swimmer.
- C: He needed someone to make his office neater.
- A: the same day
- C: stroke
- A: deck
- A: who will go with you
- B: name of your closest relative
- A: Look both ways
- C: a glass bowl
