Check out the national day!

54 Fantastic Facts For National Trivia Day

Explore some fun facts that you might get to use in your next trivia game!

Check In - Show & Share: 

Happy New Year! (15 Minutes)

Take the next ten minutes to describe your New Year Celebrations: 

• Did you celebrate with family or friends that you live with?
• Did you have a virtual countdown with friends in different places?
• Where were you when the ball dropped on 2021? 
• What are some goals you are looking forward to achieving this year? 

Presenter Note: Feel free to share your own goals or ideas for goals that you'd like to work towards in 2021. Examples of this could be to learn a new skill, practice a foreign language for 10 minutes a date, read 30 pages every day. 

Take this time to share and discuss your goals and anything excited that happened over your new years weekend! 

Tomorrow‘s Show & Share: 

Calendars from My Home or Calendar I found 

Tomorrow be prepared to share either a calendar you have in your home, a calendar you discovered online that we did not talk about today, or which calendar you found the most fascinating from our discussion today!

Theme of the Week (20 Mins): 

Theme: Calendars from around the world

Skill Builder: Using Calendars to Track Dates

This week we are going to explore calendars from around the world. These calendars share alikenesses and differences. They were used to track holidays in different cultures, seasonal cycles for growing crops, and to identify important dates.

Presenter Note: Review and discuss the calendars from the following resources. Questions can be asked while reviewing the short (4 min) video and/or the Britannica article.

Video: A Short History of The Modern Calendar 

Article: Calendars and Their History - Britannica

1. What were some Calendars that you saw in the video?
2. How were dates measured in the past?
3. What do you wish we would still use today?
4. Why were calendars important for cultures?
5. Which calendar is your favorite?
6. Which calendar do you think was not good?
7. How are the calendar different?
8. How are the calendars similar?

Skill Builder (15 min)

Person-Centered Life Planning - Keep Track of Time Past & Present

Presenter Note: In the next month we will be using a Hope to Home Portfolio Planner to keep track of important days, meetings, and program-oriented activities. Use the next 15 minutes to revisit the topic of keeping track of our dates and times and considering the following questions with participants. 

Calendars are used to keep track of time using specific levels of measurement such as days, months, years, or simply minutes! Many cultures both past and present use calendars every year to celebrate holidays and keep track of important dates both as a community and individually.

• What dates or time have you kept track of in the past?  If so, how did you do it?
• What are some ways you keep track of time?
• Why do you think Calendars have changed over time ?
• What are some ways we can begin to track our dates starting this month?
• How do you think we could take some ideas from past calendars and put them into present? 
• What holiday or date will you track first and why? (Birthday, Halloween, fun day, etc.)

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What did we learn today? 

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What are we doing this afternoon?