March 22-26, 2020
Theme: What Inspired Them?
Skill Building: :Affirmations & Positive Self Talk
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday March 22, 2021
Today happens to be...
World Water Day
Learn More About World Water Day Here
Check In (5 min)
Share one thing that you did this weekend. Was it a good weekend?
Show & Share (10-min)
Graduation! Share a time you graduated or finish any sort of program. Some examples could be high school, a certificate program, or learning a new skill. Be ready to share your transition into something new story.
Graduating is an example of a life transition, which is our theme for the week.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Share your favorite kind of puppy to celebrate national puppy day!
Plan Your Week (10 min)
PRESENTERS: Each week will start with reviewing portfolio planners to update tasks, appointment or other things that should be marked in their portfolio planner.
Let's look at this week's planner pages
Review any Appointments. Tasks, Errands, Meetings, Goals for the week, Priorities for the week
ALSO! Get ready for a new reason to use your Habit Tracker when you create your own personal affirmations today.
Building an Affirmation list
- Describe an affirmation or positive self-talk.
- Affirmation Definition Page that was sent home*
- Now time for some investigation, use this page to brainstorm as a group: Affirmation Investigation
- Ask participants to write their own affirmation in their planner portfolio.
- Use this page to fill in the last post it with the Affirmation you designed.
- Promote participants choosing an affirmation to say to themselves once a day this week. This is a perfect item for the habit tracker in the planner.
- Scroll down the page to see the list of 10 benefits of how affirmations can help us
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Additonal Activities Worksheet: Click here to complete the worksheet as a group or ask for participants to show and share their answers.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics & Community Awareness
Tuesday March 23, 2021
Today happens to be...
National Puppy Day
Check out some photos of puppies living their best lives here.
Check In (5 min)
How are you feeling today? Do you have anything you want to share?
Show & Share (10-min)
My favorite puppy.
To celebrate national puppy day, we are going to share our favorite puppy!What kind of dog did you choose?
Do not like dogs? That is ok. share your favorite domesticated animal.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Celebrate world down syndrome day! Find a way to integrate world down syndrome day into your show and share!
Life Skills Story Book 4 – Story 14: Animal Games Pt. 2 (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: This is the second half of life skills stories for the week. Read the story and complete the life skills questions, click here
- Picking up from last week's story, we will finish Animal Games and complete the questions as a team.
- What are some things you remember from last week?
- How do you think the story will turn out?
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Reading a Thermometer:
Read the temperatures on each thermometer and write the correct temperature in the box.
Click here for worksheet that was sent home
Addtional task:
- Do you have a termometer at home? Circle the on that looks simillar to it.
- Is your batter operated?
- Where have you seen thermometers located in the community?
- Have you recently checked your own temperature?
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday March 24, 2021
Last Saturday Was
World Down Syndrome Day
Learn About World Down Syndrome Day
Check In (5 min)
How is your week going so far? Have you noticed anything good or anything you'd like to work on?
Show & Share Portfolio Planner (10-min)
What did you have to celebrate today?
What information did you find out about World Down Syndrome Day?How could we celebrate world down syndrome day in the future?
This is also the time to check in on habits from this week, tasks, appointment, or anything else that you'd like to add to your portfolio planner.Click here for this week's planner pages
Tomorrow's Show & Share: A favorite memory from program. Share about a time in program that you enjoyed and makes you smile. If you want, find a picture to share from the memory.
Affirmation of the week Review (10-15min)
What affirmation of the day did you pick for this week? Share an affirmation you picked out to follow through and discuss with yourself this week. Why was this affirmation important to you? How with this affirmation be important to you in the future? Share your thoughts with the team and see if you have any other affirmations that you'd like to record for later!
Identifying individuals with developmental disabilities from pop culture (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: As a team, have participants search for individuals that are currently in pop culture that have developmental disabilities.
Once the participants find some one, have them share their screen to show the team.
People with developmental disabilities are now starring in movies, walking on run ways as models, and completing Iron Man competitions.
What is exciting about this? New opportunities are happening every day in pop culture for anyone!
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High Priority Vocabulary: A Spelling Challenge (5-10 min)
Complete the work sheet as a team. Share your answers and describe how you got to them with the rest of the team. Click here for worksheet
Covid Mitigation Moment (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Each week we will review topics in regard to mitigating COVID-19 as individuals.
Click here for Stop the Spread Information Poster
- Cleaning and disinfecting your space is an important factor to mitigating COVD-19. Let's review some spaces that you you might use frequently throughout the day?
- Why is it important to clean and disinfect these spaces?
- Look at your planner portfolio for tips and tricks for cleaning and disinfecting these spaces using proper tools and PPE. What are some important things that you have taken note of?
Optional Level-Up
Write a paragraph or create a visual for the affirmation you chose to practice with yourself this week.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Rights & Self Advocacy
Thursday March 25, 2021
Today happens to be...
National Medal of Honor Day
Learn about Medal of Honor Receipents here
Check In (5 min)
What is something you learned this month that you find exciting?
Show & Share (10-min)
A favorite memory from program. Share about a time in program that you enjoyed and makes you smile. If you want, find a picture to share from the memory.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: My affirmation from this week. Some questions to consider for this show and share:
- What did I decide to have as my affirmation this week?
- How has this affirmation helped me this week?
- Do I plan to use a similar affirmation or this specific affirmation in the future?
Defining plain language in documentation.(5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Participants have a work sheet in their portfolio planners that they can use to create a checklist as a team. This checklist will be a checklist for them to compare documents and ensure that documents are in plain language.
Plain language documents are used to describe important documents in terms that are accessible to everyone. Today we will review what goes into a plain language document and create our own plain language document checklist to reference if we ever need to review a document in the future.
Some questions to consider:
- Why is it important that we have plain language documents in our programs?
- How would/could plain language documents support your goals?
In youe portfolio planner, create a plain language document checklist as a team to describe turning on our electronic devices. Use Zoom annotate to share your answers you can you worksheet that was sent home: Click here
Information about plain language documentation
An Example of Plain Language Documentation Checklist to Reference
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Life skills story worksheet: Sizing Recipes (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Complete the Sizing Recipes worksheet that is available in this week's print outs. Click here for worksheet
Complete the Sizing Recipes worksheet as a team. Share your answers and the reasons you camp up with those answers.
Optional Level-Up
Design a petition to share.
- Find a historical petition.
- Using this as a basis, morph the historical petition into a modern-day petition.
Extra bonus level up: make the modern-day petition seem like it’s actually a historical petition using specific language, fonts, or fun backgrounds.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge & Fun
Friday March 26, 2021
Today happens to be...
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
Check In (5 min)
What are your plans for this weekend? Share a plan with your team
Show & Share Portfolio Planner (10-min)
My affirmation from this week.
Some questions to consider for this show and share:
- What did I decide to have as my affirmation this week?
- How has this affirmation helped me this week?
- Do I plan to use a similar affirmation or this specific affirmation in the future?
Next week's Show & Share: a photo is worth 1,000 words.
Next week we are exploring biographies. Be ready to share a photo that says “1,000 words” and explains you to others.
Planner Portfolio & Week Wrap Up (10-15 mins)
PRESENTERS: At the end of each week, we will review our portfolio planner for the week. After you review, ask participants how their week went according to plan (or not)
To wrap the week let's review goals we achieved, why/why not were these goals achieve? It is also time to review out habits tracked, if we improved or no on the things important to us. Finally, take some time to transfer any unfinished tasks to next week. Click here for this week's planner pages
- What were some week wins?
- What sort of adjustments might you need to make?
- Finally, rate the week.
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Virtual Scavenger Hunt(10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Use the list below to have participants find items virtually. Participants can have either
It's time for virtual scavenger hunt! Use the following list to explore the space around you (or look online) for the items. Share the times with the team once you find them!
- A good book
- Something that is blue
- A food you can eat
- An item that makes you laugh when you look at it
- Something that you use to pass time
Once you find those things, participants can come up with their own things for their peers to find.
Optional Level-Up
Reach out to a friend at another program and find their affirmation or productive self-talk works for the week. Share it with the team.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
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.
