Week 28 | Dec 21-23, 2020
Theme: PARTY TIME --- Celebration Central Right Here!
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday—December 21, 2020
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Check In (3-5 min)
Winter Solstice; Dongzhi Festival—singing party for winter solstice Saturday Kwanzaa begins
What to find out more? See below:
- Winter solstice traditions around the world: Read HERE
- Dongzhi Festival: What is it?
- What is Kwanzaa?
Theme of the week and Skill Builder(10 mins)
Party etiquette and communication
- Did you go to parties last week?
- Share your experience?
- Did you arrive on time?
- Was it easy to join?
- Why is communication important in party palnning?
- Have you ever been too early to a party? or too late?
- What did you learn from party planning?
Tomorrow has a THEME! Dress Like An Elf for program tomorrow. If you don't have anything that looks elvish, put on a top that is white, green, red, blue, or gold, make your eyebrows darker with some make-up, add a few freckles on your nose, and some blush on your cheeks, then practice your sweetest smile.
FUN and slightly silly
Covid Mitigation Moment (10 mins)
PRESENTERS: if you don't remember or know the song the lyrics are spoofing, refresh your memory here. You can just read it out loud together or try to sing it. Just the chorus alone can be fun to sing. Give it a shot.
Sing these lyrics to the tune of "Gimme 3 Steps"
(OPTIONAL) Holiday Safety Fill-In the Silly (10-15 min)
Use this custom fill in form to create truly ridiculous holiday tips. Then read the REAL holiday safety tips.
PRESENTERS: The link goes to a page inside our web site, so use the BACK link on that page to come back here, or use the BACK arrows on you browser.
Party Spaces will be open today from 10:30-11:00AM:
- Go to the party tile of your choice and spend sometime socializing.
- If want to join, its available, if not it's okay.
Zoom party/virtual games in breakout rooms or whenever: (20 mins)
Gratitude Round Robins
A quick exercise you can do is Gratitude Round Robins. To participate, go around in a circle and name something that you appreciate about a peer you can see on your screen.
The group can do a second round and choose a second peer to appreciate.
PRESENTERS: If your zoom gallery view is changing a lot because of how the audio is being picked up, you can spotlight someone and ask a participant YOU see next to them in YOUR view to give an appreciative comment. Remember people with low expressive language or English can still do a positive gesture on camera or give a reaction in the tool bar. You can decide on gestures and signals in your group that have meaning and can stand in for spoken language.
Chat time:
- What is something you’ve been thinking about lately that no-one has asked you about yet?
- Would you rather visit the bottom of the ocean or the surface of the moon?
- Does Bigfoot exist?
- What was your favorite childhood story?
- If cats could talk then what would they say?
- Virtual snack share
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What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
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What brought joy to our hearts today?
Civics Education and Community
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Check In (5-10)
PRESENTERS: you can work with your district teams to play some fun dancing music. This is also an option:
Dance party at the North Pole—Dress Like an Elf today and boogie down.
Covid Mitigation Moment (5 min)
CDC: How to Select and Use Hand Sanitizer
Hold, Host and/or Attend Parties
Party spaces will be an open house format from 10:30-11am. You can go check them out or stick with your original crew.
YouTube: Giving the Perfect Toast:
Maybe have people go around and give a small toast? Maybe talk about how you might give a nonverbal toast?
Giving a toast on Zoom: spotlighting, unmuting
- Zoom documentation: pinning a participant’s video:
- Zoom documentation: spotlighting a participant’s video:
Party Spaces will be open today from 10:30-11:00AM:
- Go to the party tile of your choice and spend sometime socializing.
- If want to join, its available, if not it's okay.
- Zoom party/virtual games in breakout rooms or whenever
GAMES
Games you can play in the party zones or in your regular breakout rooms. All of these are based on the printed sheets that went home in the paper packets.
For this one everyone get their sheet. The presenter will set a timer for 1 minute. Everyone colors the picture as neatly as you can for 1 minute. When time is up, show your picture to the camera. Anyone who got at least halfway through without being super messy can give their count of the stars, circles or triangles. This is tricky folks. Look for ALL the stars and circles.
PRESENTERS: use the timer link or just use a timer you have in your space.
Get your sheet with the ornaments that has dotted lines to cut it into a puzzle. You can color it fi you want to but the game is to look at THIS VERSION where the pieces are all cut up and DIFFERENT SIZES than they are on the paper version. Which numbered pieces in the jumble go in what location on the real puzzle page?
PRESENTERS: this is a very tough cognitive challenge for some people. The pieces have been RESIZED in the jumble to make them harder to identify. You can annotate the completed version with the correct numbered pieces from the jumble.
You'll be able to see each link below for 5 seconds. Then tell the group the number of cubes that were colored in. You can use your sheet at home but you'll have to be fast. If you know multiplication, you can use that knowledge to speed up your count. You can do this as teams, or just for fun to see who can count quickly.
PRESENTERS: Show each view and count down 5 seconds, then use CTRL and the "W" key to close that window. Or just the back button, or stop sharing.
What brought joy to our hearts today?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
PARTY TIME!
- Host and Attend your parties
- Travel to any place that's open for partying
Today is about sharing and enjoying one another's company. So don't stress and only do the things you really want to do together. And feel a great warm hug from the universe for coping so well with so much. You are all truly amazing!
Sing-along and Dance
- Heartwarming Christmas flash mob (Feliz Navidad)
- US Air Force orchestral holiday flash mob (Joy to the World)
- Christimas/Holiday Crossword Puzzle: Use annotate tool.
Holiday mad libs party toast:
Fill in the [ ] with an emotion/noun/name etc.
I am very lucky because I get to share this special day with all of you. That makes me feel [emotion]. Thank you for celebrating this [holiday] with me. I especially want to thank [a person’s name]. Without their help, I wouldn’t have been able to [verb] at all this year. I have really enjoyed [verb, -ing form] with you all. We have learned so much together. For example, I learned that [another person’s name] likes [a type of animal, plural]. I learned that [another person’s name] can speak fluent [a language]. Finally, I also learned how to [something you do at home] — thanks to [another person’s name] for helping me learn that! I hope you all have a [adjective] holiday. Good night!
Story share: What are you looking foward to doing over the 4 day vacation?
*Coloring Page - Gingerbread House Math
Option to make a game out of it. Each person take a turn doing the math problem for the color, then everyone has 1 minute to find and color all the parts of the picture that are that number. Work neat and fast!
- On one box write your own name or make a smiley face
- On another box write the name of someone you will miss seeing this year because of covid or draw a star
- On another box write the name of a person you admire or draw a circle
- Think of a gift for each person, including yourself, that is very great and wonderful and important, but that can't be bought with money. Now think big or important! Like finding true love, or reuniting with someone from the past, or traveling to a distant planet, or becoming a character in their favorite book or getting offered a dream job.
- Share the gift ideas if you want to.
- Then take a minute and close your eyes really tight, think really hard about each person and hope with all your might that they have a truly wonderful holiday and even if they can't get your heart felt gift, they can feel your love and hopes for them.
Watch holiday movie clips: Share the best holiday movie with friends!
Choosing Fun Stuff to Do
Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?
The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below.
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