Week 24 | Nov 23-25, 2020
Theme: Food — Skill Building: Giving in Non-material Ways
Safety & Person-Centered Focus
Monday, November 23, 2020
* means the sheet was sent home
Check In (2-3 min)
Introduce this week’s theme: Food
Introduce this week’s Skill Builder: Giving in non-material ways
Show and share (5-10 min)
Your favorite Thanksgiving or other special occasion recipe. Tell us how it's made and why you like it. How long have you been enjoying it? Is it a family tradition?
Tomorrow’s Show and Share is your favorite holiday movie
Thematic Activity 01 (10-15 min)
What are some everyday foods and what are special occasion foods?
Use the *features of food worksheet to identify the different things about foods that make them special or regular everyday food
PRESENTERS: Help participants recognize the different features of food like salty, rich, caloric, nutritious as listed on the sheet
Use the *Favorite Food worksheet to identify
- Your favorite everyday foods
- Your favorite special occasion foods
- Put any foods you especially dislike on the back of the sheet
OPTIONAL LEVEL UP – deeper discussion (5 min)
Remember when we talked about training pets with rewards? Rewards are things that make our brain feel pleasure. When our brain tells us something is pleasurable it also wants us to do whatever we did to make it happen again. Special occasion foods often make our brain feel pleasure. They make us look forward to special times when we can have them again.
- Why do different people like different foods?
- Why is a food you love also a food someone else hates?
- What other things in life are like that?
- And why are some flavors neutral, we don’t like or dislike them?
Skill Builder Activity 01 (10-15 min)
Review the images on dangerous scenarios and Use the questions to identify the KNOWLEDGE that makes special helpers qualified to help in each situation
- Who is the most likely helpful person for each situation?
- Does the person need special knowledge and training?
- What would a helper need to be sure of before helping in this situation?
- What knowledge or skills can you learn or practice to be ready for one or more of these situations?
Covid 19 Exposure Mitigation (QUICK REVIEW, not a full on activity —2-3 min)
(PRESENTERS: We will be ramping up on daily exposure mitigation training tips in preparation for the coming spike and for afterward when we resume programming in some form)
Right now the US is having the biggest increase in covid-19 we have ever had. It‘s definitely a dangerous situation, especially for medically fragile or older people. Let’s refresh our knowledge for the coming holiday to keep our community and ourselves as safe as possible.
- Wash our hands with soap and water or sanitizer all the time.
- Don’t wash hands quickly. ALWAYS leave the soap on for at least 30 seconds. (Sing the birthday song in your head to help you time It.)
- Avoid places with strangers, or people you know but haven’t seen in a while
- Don't gather indoors with people coming from different places. It may feel sad but sometimes we have to make sacrifices to be safe.
- If you find yourself with people you don’t usually see, stay at least 6 feet away from them. (About the length of a shower curtain rod. )
- WEAR your mask and remind others to wear theirs.
Skill Builder 02- (5-10 min)
Review the images of hobbies.
- What knowledge and skills does a person need to enjoy these activities?
- Share your hobby and what you know or learned from doing it.
Skill Builder Activity 03 (5-10 min)
Read the story about passing knowledge on together
- Who in your lives has passed knowledge on to you?
- What did they share with you?
- How has that gift enriched your life?
OPTIONAL Level Up (5-10 min)
Brainstorm a list of all the knowledge and skills in your group
Can one or more of you teach the group something new?
If something can be taught easily, use your presenting information skills from earlier in the month to teach it to everyone <content>
What have we Learning today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Community & Civic Education
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Check In (3-5 min)
Remind everyone of the themes for the week: Food and Giving in non-material Ways
Short recap of yesterday: Everyday food and special occasion foods, knowledge as an important gift
Show and share (5-10 min)
Your favorite holiday movie
Tomorrow’s Show and Share is Fall leaves and pumpkin-based favorites. Bring a great example of a fall leaf from your neighborhood and tell us your choice for pumpkin treats.
Thematic Activity 01 (15-20 min)
Review the resources on new farming trends:
Skim this article on farm-to-table
Video: Remembering where food comes from
Video: California organics
PRESENTERS: The farmer in this video is local and a chance to remind learners of the brave farming activists we studied when we were learning about unions.
Complete this questionaire on where food comes from as a group
Thematic AND Skill Building Activity 02 (10-20 min)
Watch this video on soil pollution
Now that we have new KNOWLEDGE we can do some things to contribute
Learn how we can clean up our act in this video
Discuss the 7 things you can do to support clean water and healthy soil
PRESENTERS: choose two (or more) of the tips to explain the action that follows the knowledge.
- Dispose of hazardous waste responsibly (we need to know what hazardous waste is and what responsible disposal options we have)
- Avoid single-use plastics (cutlery, cup tops, to-go containers, water bottles—if you don’t buy them you don’t have t throw them away)
- Recycle—put the recyclable things in the bin, too many don’t pay attention and throw trash in there and think they are recycling
- Electronic materials are hazardous materials – refer to tip 1
- Shopping bags and shipping materials – order from companies that ship in recyclable containers and don’t use Styrofoam
- All our soaps, detergents, personal cosmetics air fresheners and medications have green options and are better for our bodies too
- Composting – means less trash to put out and healthy lawns and gardens
Share the progress of your beans or sweet potato plant if you haven’t already
Skill Builder Activity 01 (10-15 min)
Review these two web pages about organizations that take material and non-material contributions to their projects
(PRESENTERS: Describe the layout of the page as you go over it to help learners understand scanning for areas of content. Have the help you spot words or images that are about contributing)
Review the slides to understand the kinds of resources we contribute
PRESENTERS: Click the PRESENT button in the upper right to fill the screen and go through the slides to teach material and non-material
Rate the importance of the different kinds of resources using the rating scale on the worksheet
What kinds of resources are you most likely to offer for your community support?
Look at the list of needs these volunteer opportunities in Santa Clara represent and choose one organization to click on (or do a search for organizations in your community that need help)
- What material and non-material resources could help the organization you picked?
- Which of these needs are you most interested in meeting?
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Check In (3-5 min)
Remind everyone of the themes for the week: Food and Giving in non-material Ways
Short recap of yesterday: Farming in California, soil and water resources, non-material resources compared to material resources for helping communities
Show and Share
Your recipe, food dish, drink, or costume or had that celebrates food from your culture or special occasion foods you really love.
Next Week’s show and share is your favorite self-care treatment. Do you have a sleep mask? A meditation tape? A yoga mat? A cozy bathrobe? A facial treatment? Manicure supplies? What do you do to make yourself feel pampered and special?
Covid-19 Exposure Mitigation Moment (5 min)
Use this recording to follow the chant. Say it like you're in the army. (staff are not to make fun of Tahiya for this...)
Call and response chant for Covid
I don’t know how long we’ll be
Stuck at home in quarantine
We gotta work together work together work together
We gotta kick corona kick corona kick corona
Covid’s out there playing games
I’ll stay distant, well and sane
We gotta help each other help each other help each other
We gotta kick corona kick corona kick corona
Wash my hands and sanitize
Keeping clear of crowds is wise
We gotta keep it level keep it level keep it level
We’re gonna kick corona kick corona kick corona
To keep you safe I’ll wear my mask
You wear yours. Don’t make me ask
Who’s gonna kick corona?
We ARE!
Who’s gonna keep it level?
We ARE!
Who’s gonna help each other?
We ARE!
Who’s gonna work together?
We ARE!
YES WE ARE!
Thematic Activity (10-15 min)
Look at these slides about organic farming
The slides should make you wonder what the Clean 15 and Dirty Dozen are...
PRESENTERS: See if learners will retrieve learning they did yesterday to show they know some of this content already.
Here is a great graphic of produce. Use it with the worksheet to identify which things we should try to get organic if possible, and which are OK to buy conventionally farmed (so long as we wash them well)
Use the *Clean Fifteen/DirtyDozen worksheet to identify the produce items you should buy organic if possible and those which can be safely eaten conventionally farmed
Watch this video to understand how organic farming is different and how it needs community support.
- Does organic food look different?
- Will you buy food that doesn’t look perfect if you know it’s safe to eat?
OPTIONAL LEVEL UP (3-4 min)
Look on google maps for farms in the bay area near you that offer organic produce or naturally produced animal products like meat, cheese, or eggs
Skill Builder Activity 01 CHOICE: (10-15 min)
Option 1: Gift of performance
Decide in your group if, in December, you would like to give a performance gift to a group in a sister district, or in your own.
You can choose a holiday song, a short play, a game to present, or a small social gathering to have with a group in another district or in your own.
Here are some holiday songs and plays you can use for inspiration—or write your own
Holiday Song Karaoke type practice video
(once you know the song, try to sing it without the video or recording)
Do some planning on how to rehearse, if people will take parts, or if you want to add special effects like zoom backgrounds or costumes...
Option 2: Gift of Thanks
Review the information on our essential workers in health care
Work together to think of messages of thanks and inspiration
You can use this link to ask Hallmark to send some free cards for you use
You can work with your staff to create a recording of your zoom meeting and put it on YouTube But make sure everyone in the video is allowed to be on camera in public and is OK with posting the video.
You can create a paper card with a message on it and post a picture to instagram if you have an account.
What have we learned 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.
