Knowledge & Fun With Friends
Check out the National Day
Check In (2-3 min)
Remind everyone of the themes for the week: Pets and Loving Care
Short recap of yesterday: Training pets and people, types of care and evaluating our paid services
Show and Share (5-10 min)
your favorite animal movie – look up some of the animal actors in those movies
Next Week’s Show and Share
Your favorite special occasion recipe
Thematic Activity 01 – Digital pets (10-20 min)
Review these examples of digital pet options
PRESENTERS: When viewing web pages in series like the links below, support participants to understand HOW to view a web page. Point out things like the title, what role the advertisements play and whether a page is newer or more old fashioned looking. Information PROCESSING is a separate skill from reading or viewing.
Use these discussion questions to review real pet care
- Remember the cost of real pets? How does a virtual pet compare?
- It’s important that living pets fit into your schedule. What can you guess about the schedules of virtual pets?
- Remember learning about decision making? Can you make a pros and cons list of real pets compared to virtual pets?
- Would you use a pros and cons list to choose a pet?
Optional Level UP: Explore Robot Animals with AI (5-10 min)
What do these robots make you think of? Wonder about? What do you like or dislike about the idea of robot pets?
Skill Builder + Thematic Activity Altogether (15-30 min)
- Read through *the play together
- Discuss the characters. How old are they? Where do they come from? Do they have certain personalities?
- Assign parts -- anyone with a non-speaking part can do humane society sounds and outdoor sounds to make it like a radio play.
- Think of ways to make the sounds for opening and closing doors, doggie footsteps, and other things that might make the play more realistic.
- A director can manage the rehearsal or you can collaborate as a team.
- Rehearse the play a few times trying different things.
Wrap-Up on Loving Care
If there is time, discuss how this year the effort to be loving and kind in the way we care for one another is so important and can actually affect us even more.
- Preserving our health is loving care
- Taking care to keep others free from covid is loving care
- Telling people in words, OFTEN, that we think of them and love them is loving care -- especially now when we can't be near one another or give hugs and handshakes like we would like to
- Remembering that we will get through this together and letting others know we are there for them is loving care
- understanding and forgiving each other when we are cross, anxious, upset, disorganized, forgetful, tired, depressed, spacy, unfocused, cranky, sleepy, or anything else that signals someone is having a hard time, is loving care.
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
