March 8-12, 2021
Theme: The Map of My Life
Skill Building: : Using Graphic Organizers
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday March 8th, 2021
Today happens to be...
International Women's Day
Learn more about celebrating International Women's Day here
Check In (5 min)
What did you do this weekend? What are you looking forward to this week?
Introduce the Week (3 min)
This week we are going to examine events and how they progress. Events have a beginning, a middle, and an end (and sometimes even more steps in the middle). We will use graphic organizers and draw, doodle, write, sticker, and describe how we see progressions over time.
Show & Share (10-min)
Me as a Kid
What does the map of your life look like?
Share a photo of you as a kid so we can compare how you have mapped your life this far.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Tomorrow you are going to share a knock knock Joke. Share your favorite knock knock joke so we can review how jokes are sequenced in specific orders.
Plan Your Week (10 min)
PRESENTERS: Each week we will go through our portfolio planners and take time to plan our week as a group. Review upcoming plans, tasks, or habits people want to complete or discuss. Share work completed last week.
What are some ideas and plans that you have for this week? Let's fill in any appointments, plans, habits, or tasks you are hoping to accomplish this week. You will record this in your planner portfolio.
What days in March do you want to make sure to celebrate or remember? Share culture or traditions you have.
Put in those appointments, tasks, and goals.
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My Map (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: The map activity is an example of planning for the future. The activity is located inside of the portfolio planner and can be filled out as a team. Feel free to discuss how you goal planned in the past or any ideas you have.
Creating a plan and goals helps us have an idea of what we want to accomplish in the future.
Using a plain sheet of paper, draw a timeline with a beginning, middle, and today. You can write, draw, doodle, sticker or describe points in time in your life that you consider important to becoming the person you are today. You can add the sheet to your portfolio to come back to during the week.
Start by describing yourself as a kid. What did you like to do? Can you think of any memories that had a lasting impact on you?
What is one big thing that happened in your life that had a distinct impact. Describe 1 key life event (finding a friend, losing a friend, moving out on my own, learning something new). Remember, these things can be happy or sad, there is no right or wrong answer and everyone has an individual experience.
Lastly, describe where you are now on your own life map. How did things in your life path get you to be the person you are today?
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High Priority Vocabulary: Pg. 75 Directon Words (5-10 min)
Brainstorm MORE Direction Words using the work sheet in this week's printable as a team. We've used direction words before so it's time to show our knowledge in a new way.
Need some inspiration? Use these images of people doing things to think of directions someone could give them.
Optional Level-Up
Find a person and create a timeline that describes 5 main points in their lives. Share it tomorrow if you'd like!
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics & Community Awareness
Tuesday March 9th, 2021
Today happens to be...
Organize your desk space day
Here are some tips and tricks on desk organization ideas to help make organizing less of a chore.
Check In (5 min)
What did you have for dinner last night? Or breakfast this morning? Describe your food!
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
Yesterday we discussed how life events progress over time. How did you notice things changed in youre own life map?
Show & Share (10-min)
A knock knock Joke. Share your favorite knock knock joke so we can review how jokes are sequenced in specific orders.
For example:
Knock Knock?
Who is there?
Boo.
Boo hoo?
Stop crying.
What is your favorite knock knock joke or one you found after yesterday?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: My routine.
Do you have a specific routine to get things done at night? Or in the morning? Share your routine using 3 step process.
Life Skills Story Book 1 – Story 3: Two Winners Part 2 (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Last week we went through part 1 of the life skills story. This week we will finish the story and complete the corresponding story questions and prompts.
Part two of Two Winners! We are going to review what happened in week one and finish the story.
What are some important things you remember from part one last week?
Let's use the Questions that you got in your packet last week, and some thinking skills to go deeper into the story.
- Question 2 asks you count by threes. Test your math skills as a group. Try counting by any number between 3 and 9 other than 5. See if everyone can take a turn finding the next number.
- Using the story can you find the beginning, middle and end?
- Think of a journey you took in the past. Can you share the beginning, middle and end of that journey?
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Bus Schedules – If the bus leaves at 8:00, it should… (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: This activity is to recognize the process of a bus route.
Find a local bus schedule and reviewthe bus schedule with participants.
Here are some samples if you can't find a clear one in your town.
Buses run on a scheduled time so that riders know when and where the bus will be for transportation.
Buses can be an excellent source of public transportation.
- How many of us used a bus before?
- Where did you go?
- How often did you use it?
Review the bus route times and stops as a team.
- What time will the bus be at a specific bus stop?
- What bus stop will be visited at a specific time? Take turns describing when and where the bus should be according to the bus schedule.
Life Skills Story Worksheet: Drinking Enough Water (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Complete the worksheet in the worksheet packet as a team.
Complete the drinking enough water work sheet in this week's printable as a team. Share your answers and discuss why you picked them.
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Optional Level-Up
Find the bus route that is closest to your house, trace it, and mark it in your planner portfolio. It does not matter if the closest route is 15 miles away…. Find it!
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday March 10th, 2021
Today happens to be...
Harriet Tubman Day
A timeline of Harriet Tubman's legacy as a member of the Underground Railroad
Check In (5 min)
Since we are halfway through the week, how is your week going so far?
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
Yesterday we explored routines that we follow to be successful and noticed that each individual's routines are different. We also
Show & Share (10-min)
Share any sort of three-step routine you have
- Do you have a routine you like to complete each morning, afternoon, or night?
- How did this routine start?
- Have you changed your routine over time?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Lanterman Act – Find one way or show one way the Lanterman (using photos or icons) that the Lanterman Act has personally impacted you.
Updating My Life Map (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Review the life map activity as a team from Monday. We will be discussing how events in our lives change over time. Also use this time to update an habits, tasks, or other planner portfolio updates.
We have spent the last couple days describing sequences of events.
- Remember that timeline we made on Monday?
- What new things or events are happening every day, even virtually?
- How do you think the experiences you are having now will affect your year?
- What can you imagine in your future based on now?
Are there any extra updates you would like to make to your life map? Share if you want to.
Check in on status, update, reward, encourage, report on habits, tasks completed, or anything else important going on in your life this week.
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Discussing Our Life Map (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Using the timeline, ask participants to share one event and the date that it happened. This will help participants recognize that life events happen earlier or later depending on circumstances
We have been working on our life roadmaps. If some people are comfortable sharing an event and a date from your personal time lines, we can compare how our life events are different for different reasons. It's also fun to realize what other people's lives are like in the same time frame that we are living ours.
Using zoom annotation, create a team timeline or everyone in the group and mark the times (ages) in which the events occurred.
Note any differences or similarities for participants key events.
- Was the event at the same age or did it happen at different ages?
- Same Time?
- Different ages?
- Different Time?
High Frequency Vocabulary* Pg. 143 - Got It! (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Complete the worksheet in the worksheet packet as a team.
Complete the Got It! work sheet in this week's printable as a team. Share your answers and discuss why you picked them.
Do you know how to spell the word for the picture that does not match the word printed on the sheet?
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Covid Mitigation Moment (5-10 min)
What to do if you start to feel ill.
If you start to feel ill and think you are sick using the following sequence for guidance
Stay Calm being ill is a part of life. Many people have gotten illnesses.
Monitor your symptoms what is going on? How do you feel? If you need to, mark your symptoms in your portfolio planner so you have a good idea of how things have progressed over time.
Call, email, or contact your doctor or health care specialist before you visit. This will help the office prepare or send you to the places you must go to receive treatment or further information.
Stay out of contact with others if you think you are ill! This is a huge way to safely stop the spread of the virus. Stay home, stay safe, and keep others safe.
Optional Level-Up
Find a person from history and create a timeline for their beginning, middle and end. Compare their life’s timeline to yours in your portfolio planner.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Rights & Self Advocacy
Thursday March 11th, 2021
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Check In (5 min)
Share something funny that happened to you this week.
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
Yesterday we looked at ways that life events in our lives happen at the same or different times in our lives. What are some things that you realized yesterday while we created our team timeline?
Show & Share (10-min)
Find one way or show one way the Lanterman (using photos or icons) that the Lanterman Act has personally impacted you. This impact can be any impact that this act has had on your life past, present, or an impact you know it will have in the future.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Your favorite movie. Tomorrow we will review how a movie is sequenced for a plot line. Most movies have a beginning, a middle, and finally, the end. Share your favorite movie for us to discuss before we figure out the plot line of a film together
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Defining Advocacy for myself(5-10 min)
What is advocacy to you?
Here is the definition of advocacy to review as a team. And the Synonyms and Antonyms of Advocate.
After you review the dictionary's definition, what are some ways that you advocate for yourself?
What are ways that you advocate for others?
PRESENTERS: Really allow at least 2 minutes of quiet pondering for this one. We can start here to engage in more time to allow our thoughts and awareness to gain power.
Using a moment of silent reflection and thinking, try to finish one or more of these sentences. Those who want to can share.
- Advocating means to...
- The most powerful way to advocate for myself is to...
The Lanterman Act Timeline (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: To continue the discussion on advocacy, the team will review the Lanterman Act and it's timeline. Participants can identify key dates of the act, describe how the act impacts themn personally, and brainstorm ways in which the Lanterman Act may change in the future.
"The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, known as the “Lanterman Act,” is an important piece of legislation that was passed in 1969. This is the California law that says people with developmental disabilities and their families have a right to get the services and supports they need to live like people without disabilities."
If you needed to drescribe the Lanterman Act, how would you describe it in your own words or icons? The Lanterman Act was passed as a way to advocate.
Watch the brief video on the history of the Lanterman Act.
What was the timeline of the act? Are there one or more key events that occured to get the act to pass?
Now knowing more about Lanterman Act, what are some ways that this act could change in the future to benefit advocates or ourselves more?
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Life Skills Story Worksheet: Using a Calendar as a reminder to pay bills.
PRESENTERS: Complete the worksheet in the worksheet packet as a team.
Complete the Using a Calendar work sheet in this week's printable as a team. Share your answers and discuss why you picked them.
Optional Level-Up
Imagine what your life might be like if the Lanterman Act did not protect your rights. What kind of help might you need? What kind of problems might be worse if you didn't have these rights?
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge & Fun
Friday March 12, 2021
Today happens to be...
Alfred Hitchcock Day
Alfred Hitchcock was a legendary filmmaker, learn more about his biography here
Check In (5 min)
What are your plans for this weekend? What are you looking forward to?
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
How has the Lanterman Act personally impacted you?
Show & Share (10-min)
Share your favorite movie and why it is your favorite movie. What is so exciting about this movie and why? Do you love the way the film looks? Do you love the actors? Share about your favorite movie today with a quick clip or still image from the film.
Next week's Show & Share: A person I find inspiring. Next week we will be reviewing how people are inspired throughout their lives. Share one person, alive or passed away, that inspires you to work harder or be better.
Portfolio Planner
How will my life’s timeline change over time? (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Review the activities from the week as well as the habits and tasks for your team. Allow participants to review their week and share wins or things they'd like to change for next week.
Review Monday’s personal timeline activity
Timeline circumstances are affected by the world around us and things going on in our everyday lives. What are some ways that you think your personal timeline will change in the future?
Identify one way that you'd like to actively change your life map in the future and write it into your timeline. This can be anything from wanting to learn something new to drinking more water each day.
Finally, Wrap the week! What goals were achieved, why/why not? Which habits did you track? Transfer anything that needs to be transfered to next week. Share your personal wins, adjustments, and finally rate the week.
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Describe a Movie Plot Line (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Decide on a movie together and use the zoom WHITE board to brainstorm important plot points from the movie you choose. Try to use a movie that has been watched by many participants if possible.
All movies have a beginning, middle, and end of the plot for the viewers. Today we are going to pick a movie (and maybe watch a couple movie clips on youtube ) and describe the beginning, the middle or plot twist, and the end of the movie.
How can you describe the plot line for movies?Almost all movies beginning, a middle (or a plot twist), and a finale!
Watch some trailers for favorite movies on YouTube. How are trailers different from the timeline of the full movie? Do trailers mix up the timeline to show viewers the most exciting parts? If you were going to make a trailer of the movie of your life, what would you include?
Here are some MOVIE TRAILERS to watch and discuss. Can you tell if a scene in a trailer is from the beginning, middle or end?
Optional Level-Up
Write a full plot synopsis for your favorite film in your portfolio planner. Feel free to share on Monday if you'd like!
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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.
