Knowledge & Fun With Friends
Check-In with everyone
Hello! Today is about LAUGHTER! The best way to make us laugh is to cause surprise, make the audience expect one thing and give them something else. Like a beautiful flower, that squirts you in the nose!!! ha ha ha ha.
High Priority Vocabulary
Let's get some Calendar vocab spelled. By the way, anyone think one month is funnier than the other months? Notice how the word fun is inside the work funny!
PRESENTERS: Share screen and get the people who have the worksheet to help the group complete the words together.
Show & Share
Pets puttin' on the Ritz! That's an old fashioned expression for dressing up. Do you ever dress your pets or stuffed animals? Do they like it? If our pets had to have clothes every day, they'd have to...(see this cartoon)
Next week Show & Share will focus on our media collections and favorite stars and celebrities.
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Life Skills Story 5: 15 = Fun X's 3
Life Skills Story Activity Sheet
Use the activity sheet to plan some program activities. Some ideas will fit in program times. Other ideas might take longer, but you could get started with support from your team and then continue independently. Doing things on zoom can be a challenge, but challenges can be fun too.
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Thematic Connection: Creativity and Humor
Creative Tools for EVERYONE
We are used to the word "disabilities" but a more INCLUSIVE way to think about needing to do things in original ways is DIFFERABILITIES. Because the truth is EVERYONE needs to do things in original ways and everyone has differabilities.
- Can't people who walks still use a wheelchair for exercise?
- Isn't a better kitchen knife good for any chef?
- Can't a sighted person still want a talking watch or alarm clock.?
Look at these tools that help people do things in new ways. Then talk about why EVERYONE can use that tool and how.
Mouse You Move With Your Smile (yes staff, we have a grant to get some to try)
Share any differability tools you use that other people also like.
Future Things Engineers are Working On
- Robot Chef
- A Closet that Cleans Your Clothes IN THE CLOSET
- An AI Fish Tank that Converts Your Trash Into Fuel and Food
- A Printer that PRINTS FRESH CLOTHES
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What We Expect + Silly Surprise = Laughter
Laughter usually comes from silly surprises. Let's practice making some laughter in here. Start with telling a few jokes, then try the creativity prompt.
These jokes depend on how you say them to be funny. In comedy they call that "delivery". Try some of these jokes with the following delivery styles:
- Deadpan-- tell the jokes as if it is completely SERIOUS -- do not crack a smile
- Long Pause -- give a really, really long pause before the punch line
- Raging -- tell the joke like you are super angry about it -- it's sometimes extra funny if the anger makes no sense at all
- Wondering out loud -- tell it as if you are just wondering to yourself and no one is listening to you
- Clueless -- tell the joke as if you don't understand it. You can even say, "Someone told me this joke but I don't get it."
Sequences for Silly Surprises
Even the most everyday things can be funny if there is a silly surprise inserted. Look at these ordinary sequences, check the "monkey wrench" surprises, then come up with some of your own Monkey Wrenches.
PRESENTERS: Click the sequence and put the slide in PRESENT mode by clicking the "present" button in the upper right corner.
Review the sequence left to right from the top.
Then click the screen to uncover each "Monkey Wrench." Choose the funniest wrench to add to the sequence and retell the story with the wrench ending.
Taking the Bus or Something Else?
What Did We Learn Today?
