Today is Tuesday June 15, 2021

Today happens to be... National Nature Photography Day

Theme for June:

Ready for Anything 

Theme of the Week: Mad Skills for Re-opening-vehicles and social distancing in the community. 

Vehicle Seating Memory Test — Slide Show

Presenters: Review the slides and show the correct answer to everyone. Remember to use the PRESENT button on the upper right to fill the screen with the image

Also, remeber that its important to stay sanatize by washing your hands and having santizer near by. When was the last time you sanitized your hands? If you havent done so since the morning, you can go wash them after the dance break. 

Body Break  and Hygiene Practice

Let’s move! Are you ready to dance and Freeze?! Note for Dance Video, you can adjust or modify the movements if you want.  

What if you didn't wash your hands for a year?!!! EEEWWWW  GROSS! (this video was made right at the beginning of the pandemic) 

If you pretend that nobody washes their hands enough, you'll remember NOT to shake hands or touch others. 

COMMUNITY Skills: What the VTA in Santa Clara is requiring for Covid and re-opening. Look at the bus  diagram for seating in particular. It looks like ours for our vans. 

PRESENTERS: If you are not located in Santa Clara County, share screen and do a search for the public transporation agency in your area. Find out what they are doing. 

Body Break  

5 minutes of meditation 

Life Skills Story Web Page

Remember the story from last week? Let's see how many of the questions on the worksheet we can answer together. 

PRESENTERS: Share screen of the worksheet below and annotate to mark the correct answers 

TEACHING TIP: Annotate INCORRECTLY on purpose and prompt them to find your mistake

Question Set 1 for A Botched Mess

Read and answer these questions as a group. If you need to refer to the story, you can use the web page view here. (answers at bottom of page)

 Put today's topics in sequence. What did you cover in what order? 

What do you remember best?   

Answers:

1. B  

2. C 

3. D

4. B

5. C

6. D

Today is Wednesday June 16, 2021

Today happens to be...Fresh Veggies Day

Theme for June:

Ready for Anything 

Theme of the Week: Mad Skills for Re-opening-vehicles and social distancing in the community. 

Portfolio Planner 

Check in with your appointments, important dates, accomplishments, habit tracking 

Social Distancing and Being Human

Watch these 2 videos about how social distancing can affect us.

• Your brain on social distancing.
• 3 Components of Connection 

Because re-opening is probably going to go slower than our brains would like, we need to remember how to connect while still keeping physically distant. Remember the ideas for distant greetings? Well those are important for our emotional AND physical health.  Practice them again on camera. 

Hygiene Practice & Body Break 

Let’s move!  Before you start some movement break, share the sanitzer you prefer. Do you like gel, spray or sanitizinfg wipes? Show off your sanitizer to the group. Check out this 5 minute movement video, let's get moving!

Vehicles and Seating at Hope Programs

Review the new seating rules

Here are some ways these rules might feel to you

• fine, no problem
• weird and unfamiliar
• frustrating because I like to sit up front
• great because I like to have a lot of room
• uncomfortable because the van is so much bigger
• worrisome because I may not be able to see my driver easily
• fun because we will be above the other cars on the road
• reminds me of a school bus
• annoying. i want to sit where I want to sit
• nice since I can put my stuff in the emply seat
• what else?

PRESENTERS: go over the positive and negative ideas related to the new vehicles and seating requirements. Point out that every change has benefits and challenges.

Life Skills Story  Question Set 2 for A Botched Mess 

Volunteer to read and asnwer the questions as a group. If you need to reference the story, you can do so here on the web page. (check for answers at bottom of page)

Hygiene Practice & Body Break 

5 minute break with the some nice tunes!

Help your drivers (video)

This is a comedy short movie about how hard it is to be a school bus driver when people need to wear masks. Did the actors do a good job of showing misbehavior? 

What was the sequence of topics today? 

What do you remember best? 

Set 2 Answers:

1.B

2.B

3.A

4. D

5. C

6.D 

Today is Thursday June 17, 2021

Today happens to be...Eat All Your Veggies Day

Theme for June:

Ready for Anything 

Theme of the Week: Mad Skills for Re-opening-vehicles and social distancing in the community.

Self-Advocacy and Reopening

Watch these two videos back to back

 What is self-advocacy?

George the Poet: Collaborating

The first one encourages us to speak up for ourselves. That's important and it matters. A LOT!

The second one says we need to collaborate, come together, to keep everyone safe and fully recover from the pandemic. 

When you go back to program, or here online, you may find that there are times when what you want and collaborating with others go in opposite directions. This may happen on the vans with the new seating. Or it may be a problem when you want to put your food in a hope fridge and we're not allowed to use them any more. 

PRESENTERS: offer scenarios where what we want in face to face program may not be good for the group, or may cause risk of spreading covid.

If you are a good self-advocate it may seem like going backwards to compromise. If you aren't used to speaking up, the rules may feel like they got a lot worse and harder to deal with. Here is a general guide to help you choose when to advocate, and when to collaborate.

1. Is what I'm advocating for a NEED or a WANT?Needs are usually about safety, health and feeling emotionally safe. Wants feel strong but we can do fine if we  don't get them
2. Then ask is what I'm advocating possibly dangerous or harmful to someone else?

If what you are asking for meets a real NEED and is highly unlikely to cause any harm or danger to others, then you can feel confident advocating for it. Otherwise, try to collaborate and compromise. Use your communication skills to understand everybody's point of view. 

Hygiene Practice & Body Break 

Let’s move! Get our bodies stretching!

After the break, practice some role play. Imagine your friend is standing too close to you in line. How might you remind them about social distancing? Share with the group. 

Life Skills Worksheet "Caring for Pets"

PRESENTERS: just share the sheet and annotate on it as your group works through the prompts.

For each pet listed on the sheet, decide what special care that pet would need. You can use the annotate option to write in the box of each pet. 

• Do you have any of the pets listed? If so, what special care do you give your pet?

Remaking Friends 

Anxiety about re-entry

Taking our time remaking friends is worth it. Social skills get rusty when we don't use them for a long time. We may not feel as comfortable as we used to, or we may be more or less anxious than the people we know. Here are some tips to communicate your level of comfort.

• Be honest with friends about how ready you feel to go back to normal
• Make sure you understand how your friends feel
• If one of you feels more ready than the other, go by the pace of the person who less comfortable
• Practice conversations with people in your home to prepare for talking to people in the world again

Body Break 

5 minute break with trivia! 

Our Pets Are Going To Miss Us

How to help pets cope

What was the sequence of today's topics?

What do you remember best? 

Today is Friday June 18, 2021

Today happens to be...International Picnic Day

What is the theme of June?

What did we focus on this week?

Re-opening Skills

• So take the last quiz for the week on the correct seating assignments in the vans. 
• Show us your no-contact greetings
• Remember that when we get back to in-person everyone will have different levels of comfort and we need to communicate, collaborate and advocate. 

Portfolio Planner -Wrap Up

How was your week? Did you get your habits done? Did you have to cancel or reschedule plans?  

Fun videos to start off Friday!

• Secret Life of Pets Trailer
• The sport of Cheerleading
• You're Welcome Singalong from Moana

Hygiene Practice & Body Break 

Let’s move! Do you like the Avengers? Well you might enjoy this body break featuring the Avengers Characters!

After the body break, discuss why you should stay home if you are sick.  Especially now that we must take our temperature before entering a hope site, if its too high, we should stay home. 

Longer Video to Watch and Enjoy (20+ min) "Crow"

 Body Break 

Let’s dance for 5 minutes. Get yoru arms, legs and body moving.  

Life Skills Story Quiz for A Botched Mess 

Who's ready for a quiz?! After spending lots of time on this story, let's hope you get all of them correct. 

(You can score yourself with the answers at the bottom)

Summer Mood Adjusters

• An Oldie but a goodie
• Call and response clapping level 1
• Call and response voice
• Call and response rhythm challenge

What was the sequence of topics for today?

What do you remember best? 

Quiz Answers:

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.C

5.B

6.C

7.B

8.A

9.C

Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?

Spin the Activity Wheel!  

The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below. 

Activity Wheel Details