Knowledge & Fun With Friends
Check-In with everyone
Hello! Check out this Corgi wiggle. Can you shake your booty with that much excitement so early in the morning?
For this one you can do the worksheet at home if you got it. But let's make the assignment a little more physical and fun, shall we?
- Pretend you are in front of a big imaginary wall and you're holding a giant imaginary marker.
- When you read a DIRECTIONAL word pretend you are doing that really big, HUGE. GIANT!! on the pretend-wall in front of you.
- If you're not sure which action to do, listen for your presenter to say it out loud
- So if you are asked to circle something, pretend to make a HUGE circle. X something out? Make a giant imaginary X as big as your arms can go
Presenters: Use this slide show to prompt the direction. Remember the PRESENT button makes it go full screen. Give people a chance to READ it and se the picture first-count to 6 in your head. Watch the thumbnails to see who is catching on. Then, on the next slide read it aloud as the plain word so anyone who was uncertain can associate the word with the action.
Show & Share
Have you ever traded or "bartered" something? You don't have to have money to get things you need. Barter or trade has been around much longer than money.
- Does anyone remember trading things in your lunch when you were in school?
- How do you decide what you are willing to trade or barter?
- Trading requires a lot of negotiation. The people doing the trade have to agree that the things they are trading are equally valuable. How do you decide if a trade is fair?
- Are there things you would be willing to trade in your group right now? Don't forget, you can trade services too.
Next week's Show & Share will focus on finances and money, how you spend it, where you keep it and your rights about it.
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*Life Skills Story Activity Sheet
This week's activity sheet is about moving boxes. Let's get imaginative and dream a little for this one. Let's be interior designers.
PRESENTERS: This is the Wayfair 3D room planner. You can use this optional activity to make the idea of moving house more entertaining. Let your inner interior designer out to play.
- Start by clicking the purple "create your room" button. You'll see a floor plan.
- Drag the circles on the corners of the room out to change the size and shape of your room. (Don't make any wall longer that 30 feet)
- In the upper right corner click the purple "See your space" button
- The left panel will offer things to add to your room. If it's not expanded click the > tab to open it up.
- Click Living room furniture and choose a subcategory.
- Once you see actual items, click and drag the ones you like into the room. Select and delete them if you change your minds.
- When you have a room your group likes, you can save it (may have to submit email or something to save it) or you can take a screen capture by using the CTRL key and the PRT SCRN key on a laptop or computer.
- Once you have an imaginary room in your new apartment go to the moving boxes worksheet and decide which rooms to label which boxes.
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Let's make this break a real activity! If you can stand, stand. If you have to stay seated, move your chair back from the table or desk a little. We're going to do a PROGRESSIVE DANCE. Here's a workout mix for music, or choose your own.
PRESENTERS: remember to change the audio setting to "system" so the audio can go directly into the meeting instead of having to come through your microphone-whatever music you're using.
- Using the list below, the first body breaker makes up a dance move for that body part and shows everyone how to do it.
- Everyone practice.
- The next body breaker does that first dance move and adds another one, for a new body part from the list.
- Everyone does both moves in order.
- Next person adds a third move for a different body part, and so on untile everyone is dancing one long groove.
Head
Neck
Shoulders
Arms
Torso
Hips
Legs
Hands
Knees
Feet
Thematic Connection -- Friyay!!!
**WARN your family or caregivers that you'll be drumming on the table or desk in this next activity so they aren't startled by the extra sound.
Let's learn how to have a drum circle. This video demonstrates call and response for drumming.
You can drum right on your table or desk and do some call and response in your group.
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Free form it. One person start a beat and everyone else join in.
Coasters and Attention
Take these a virtual rollercoaster ride. Afterward discuss what you observed in the environment around the coaster. Sometimes we see things other people miss and miss things other people see. Share your observations and see if you can remember all the different things in the scenes. Then take the rides again and see if you were right.
Here are some other attention exercises to see what your brain notices.
What Did We Learn Today?
