Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Check-In

Good morning! Is there anything you’re looking forward to in September? 

High Priority Vocabulary

Objective: Correctly spell the days of the week. 

Presenters: See if anyone can name all seven days of the week. Then, see if seven participants are each able to spell one day of the week. 

Look *A Spelling Challenge. You should have received a printed copy of this. Let’s complete the top section together. 

Presenters: Open the document and share your screen. Use the annotate feature to complete the top section of the worksheet together. 

Try to fill out the rest of the worksheet on your own, and then go over your answers with your group. 

Show & Share

Our theme for September is work and labor! This week we are sharing about jobs. 

Some jobs we can do at or from our homes, but many jobs require us to go somewhere else. What’s one job you’ve had in the community? If you have not had a job in the community, share about a job that you have interviewed for, or a job that you are interested in. 

Tomorrow’s show and share: We learn a lot at work. Tomorrow we'll talk about things you learned so well, at a job, that you know you are an EXPERT at them.  

Body Break

You know what to do. 

Life Skills Story: The Winter Wonder Bakers

Objective: Understand the life skills story for the week. (Reading comprehension) 

PRESENTERS: If you didn’t read the whole story on Monday, finish reading it today. If you did finish it, prompt participants to recap the story’s main ideas before you do the quiz. Here are some questions that you may want to ask: Who is leaving? Why? What do Hannah and her friends decide to do? 

Take the *Story Quiz for this week’s story. You should have received a printed copy of the quiz. 

After you finish the quiz, check your answers. The quiz answers are listed at the bottom of this page. 

Body Break 

Stretch and drink some water. 

PRESENTERS: The links embedded in text below are visual reminders. If you choose to open them, remember that CTRL and the W key close an open window and bring you back to this page.

Thematic Connection: Dressing for the Occasion 

Last week, we talked about the importance of dressing appropriately for the weather. When we select our clothes for the day, we should pay attention to how hot it is and whether it’s raining. Do you remember what temperature and precipitation mean? 

This week, we will learn about how formality and occasion  affect how we dress. When we go to work or fancy dinner parties, those are formal settings, so it is usually expected that we dress nice or dress up a little. At other times, we may need to wear uniforms, and we often need to dress in a certain way for certain activities, like swimming. 

Objective: Identify articles of clothing that are appropriate for difference occasions. 

Here is a little game we can play: Dress for the Occasion. Identify which place the person is going to and explain your reasoning.  

1. PRESENTERS: Open the link and click the “PRESENT” button on the top right of the slide in order for the animations to work. 
2. Then share your screen. 
3. After everyone makes their guess, click the screen, and an arrow will appear and reveal the answer. 
4. Discuss why the person dressed appropriately for the occasion and why they might not be dressed appropriately for other events or activities. 
5. When you’re ready, click the screen again to advance to the next slide. 
6. To close the presentation use the EXIT button on the control bar or ESC key on a laptop/computer.

After you’ve finished that game, we have another game to play: 

Everyone, grab something that would be appropriate to wear to work. Then share what you chose and why it is a good choice. We often need to dress in a certain way for work, and different jobs require us to dress differently. So make sure that you not only share which clothes you grabbed, but also tell everyone what jobs that clothing would be appropriate for. (You don’t want to show up to your business job dressed for your job as a life-guard at the pool!) 

Round 2: Imagine you are going to watch your favorite sports team play a game. Grab something you might wear to the game and share why it is a good choice. 

Round 3: Imagine that it is a Saturday and you plan to stay home and relax all day. Grab something you would wear and share why it is a good choice. 

Round 4: Imagine that you are going to a movie with your friends. Grab something you would wear and share why it is a good choice. 

What did we learn today?

Story Quiz Answers

1. C: She got a job as a professor. 
2. C: a giant cupcake 
3. A: flour 
4. C: promotion 
5. B: university 
6. C: Happy Birthday, Kelly. From Maysie. 
7. C: Place the hotdog in an open cereal bowl. 
8. C: flour 
9. A: ring tone 

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Check-In with everyone

Greetings and Salutations! Let's hear "good morning" in 10 different languages. 

Do you speak a non-English language? Can you say good morning in that? Teach one another.

PRESENTERS: an * means the file was included in the printed delivery for the week. The link goes to a digital version.

High Priority Vocabulary

Ready to give your brain some exercise? Use this *What Day? worksheet with the calendar on it to figure out when things will happen. In these days of ordering things we need online it's a great skill to be able to tell when something will finally arrive. 

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Show & Share 

Can you share the skills you have learned on a job that you are most proud of? What have you learned on the job that you got so good at, you consider yourself an expert? How would you explain your expertise in an interview?

Tomorrow's Show & Share is all about your network of  helpful people. Share how  you keep track of all the different people you know and meet, and how you keep in touch with them.  

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<Body Break> MOVE MOVE MOVE... 

* Life Skills Story Questions

There are so many life skills in this week's story. Look at these categories and CHOOSE SOME life skills your group wants to discuss.  

Job Related Life Skills & Knowledge

Understanding Job Titles

Miss Tran, a high school teacher, will now become a college professor. Since the word “professor”also means “teacher,” why does Hannah say that it is like a promotion?

Social Skills

Writing on a Gift Tag

Imagine a gift tag the girls might include with the giant cupcake for Miss Tran. What do you think the girls could write on the gift tag ?

Adjusting Behavior for Different Situations

In the story, Hannah and Pearl rubbed flour on each other’s faces. The situations and attitudes made it OK. Explain a situation and an attitude where rubbing flour would not have been OK. 

PRESENTERS: This one is subtle. Consider number of people in the group, formality of setting, and how well people know one another.

Practical Know-How

Choosing Cooking Methods

In the story, the frosting for the cupcake had to be boiled. Would you use a standard oven, microwave oven, burners, or grill to make the frosting? Explain.

Choosing Microwave Containers

Say you were going to use a microwave oven to make the frosting in the story. Describe the container you would use.

Recognizing Common Baking Ingredients

You know that Pearl used flour to make the cupcake. What other common baking ingredients do you think she probably used?

Life Hacks

Keeping an Ongoing Grocery List

In the story, Pearl told Hannah that she had used the last of the flour. Hannah took a break from what she was doing and wrote “flour” on the shopping list. Why was it important that Hannah write on the shopping list right then?

Real World Math

Using Counting Words

Counting words give a sense of a number, amount, or order. Some examples are third, triple, and most. Find the counting words in the story and decide what each one means.

Sizing Recipes

The frosting recipe called for a one-half cup of butter, one cup of cream cheese, two cups of powdered sugar, and one teaspoons of vanilla. Hannah said they needed to double the recipe. Create a recipe card that shows both the single batch and the double batch. 

Measuring for a Recipe

Name common measurements in baking that these cups  probably measure. Label them in annotation mode if you want. You can also look at this graphic for more info. 

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Thematic Connection: Health and Well Being

We've talked a lot about healthful food on Wednesdays. Now it's time to look at healthful BEHAVIOR. 

Activity 1: What did you eat yesterday? 

Fill out the *food diary in your packet by remembering what you ate yesterday. 

PRESENTERS: depending on your group you may have people independently fill out their diaries then come together to share, or complete a fictitious one as a group, or have a volunteer, or yourself, be the subject of filling it out together.

Does the food diary reflect the healthy habits list you just looked at? What did you do that was healthy yesterday? Anything you want to be more careful about?

<BODY BREAK> Make it count!

Activity 2: Basic Healthful Eating

Review * this list of recommended habits. Brainstorm as a group to find 2 or more additional things that you know are healthy habits.

Activity 3: Your Healthy Habits Score

Now use your printout of the list and put a checkmark next to any of the habits you do. How many check marks did you have? Use this worksheet to find out your *Healthy Habits Score

Activity 4: Being a health ADVOCATE

Review * the Health Advocate worksheet with your group. Would you like to be a health advocate in your home and community? Why or why not? 

Activity 5: Advocate or nag?

Sometimes people become such strong advocates for health they start to nag people. Instead of supporting, they become pushy. Eating healthfully is very important, but enjoying your life is healthy too. You are allowed to choose foods you like and treats are OK once in a while. In the situation below, how can you speak assertively to a peer who is taking health advocacy too far?

Imagine sitting in a lunch room at program and your peer starts criticizing your lunch, saying you should eat different things. They aren't being mean but they are also not respecting boundaries. How can you tell them they are being impolite without causing hurt feelings.

(Remember: Honest, Assertive, Kind, Open HAKO)

What Did We Learn Today?

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Check-In with everyone

This weekend we commemorate Labor Day. Anyone have any thoughts on what Labor Day is all about? What are your plans for the longer weekend?

PRESENTERS: the * means the page was sent home. The link goes to a sharable screen version of the handouts to do them as a group, or to provide the answers if applicable. 

High Priority Vocabulary-Monthly Calendar

Use * this worksheet to create a month calendar. We are just in the beginning of September so that's a good choice, but you can choose any month.  If you do the calendar in shared screen mode the type tool can work to put the words in the right locations. Be sure to check the official calendar so you start your numbers on the right day of the week. 

Show & Share 

Tell us about your network? Who do you know that you would ask to help you, or recommend you, when you are looking for a job? How do you communicate with your network? What makes you add someone to your network? Do you keep business cards so you can contact people later? Who asks you for help or tips with job hunting? Did you ever think that you are in their network? 

Tomorrow's Show & Share is about team work. Be ready to share stories of teams you've been a part of in the work place.

<Body Break> Move it, use it, love it!

* Life Skills Questions 

Go over the questions about Life Skills Story 7.

One good thing about these stories is that you can figure out things that are similar to the story but still different, like how cooking and baking are similar but there are differences. 

PRESENTERS: the Life Skills Questions help learners explore lateral thinking—thinking about related things that aren't in the story. This is very helpful for "generalization" which is the ability to apply learning from one context to a different context. 

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM OF PAGE

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Thematic Connection: Labor Day

This video explains why Labor Day is more than a day off. 

The Labor Movement changed the lives of most people in America, and in other countries where workers decided to stand up for themselves. 

The labor movement taught us how to fight for disability/differability rights. The workers who marched and fought in the courts for fair lives for American workers opened the path for other people who wanted fair treatment. These movements are still going on today because we should never give up on fairness and equality.

This video is about Filipino labor heroes and their role in creating the United Farm Workers union in California. 

This video is about the advocates that created the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

Discussion Points

1. The union workers have strikes and walk-outs, refusing to work and making a picket line to embarrass people who would replace the workers. Differability advocates had sit-ins and marches, which disrupt regular activities and force people to pay attention to the issue. How are these actions similar? Do you think they work? When you see a strike or a march, do you pay attention? 
2. Workers and union activists fight for safe and sane working conditions, reasonable pay, and a life they can enjoy. Differability activists fight for participation in society, access to jobs and education, and civil rights. How was the unfairness to workers similar to the unfairness to people with disabilities/differabilities? In what ways can workers and people with disabilities/differabilities have their rights violated? How does that affect life quality? 
3. When a person with a disability/differability wants to accept a job, the employer is required to provide accommodations. This is an connection between the labor
   disability/differability rights. Can you think of ways that you have benefited from that work they did to make that a requirement?   
4. Being an activist like the people we learned about takes courage. Many people argue against you and tell you you are wrong to ask society for more than it gives you. Even though most protests are peaceful, violence can happen and people often get arrested. Do you feel inspired by Labor activists? Can you see how their courage gave courage to other people later on? What would  you like to inspire people to do with your courage?  

Here are some songs from these movements. The first one is a union song. The next two are about disability/differability rights. 

Solidarity Forever (Pete Seger)

Solidarity means coming together and staying strong together.

Choices & Rights (Johnny Crescendo) 

The singer has a rude T-shirt on in the picture. He is expressing his anger both in the song and in his clothes. Anger is a normal human feeling and it has a place in the fight for rights. We can express it without letting it rule us or make us ineffective. We can ACT peacefully, like singing a song, and still FEEL angry, like this singer. 

I'm Deaf (Sean Forbes)

This singer uses a hip-hop/rap style of music to express his feelings. A feeling that is close to anger but is usually more productive is DEFIANCE. Defiance is when we refuse to cooperate with unfairness even if it is scary or uncomfortable or expensive to do it. Defiance is the feeling of standing up to unfairness BEFORE the rules change, so that the people who come after us don't have to. 

<Body Break> Jump, wave your arms, blink your eyes...

Persistence Over Time

Labor Movement Timeline

PRESENTERS: click the arrow to the right of the text item in the center of the page to move to the next moment on the timeline. The time line is depicted below the text.

Disability/Differability Rights Timeline

Unfortunately all the cool interactive timelines I could find for Disability/Differability Rights have been removed and only the boring text ones are left. However, do look at this one and notice how things get more and more active as we move forward in history. 

Discussion

1. What do these timelines teach us about being persistent in claiming our rights? 
2. What can we learn about the kinds of things people create and invent to make their voices heard? 

LEVEL UP CHALLENGE--OPTIONAL 

For those of you who want to promote your rights and awareness of differabilities, what about creating a timeline that is cool and interactive to replace all the ones that got taken down? 

Digital Version

Here is a website where you can make one. Use the information in the plain, boring, text one above but go and find pictures on line to link to your new timeline. 

Paper Version

Print out the events you find interesting and put them together on sheets you tape together.

*Share what you create and we'll put it on the Hope Learning Services Website!

What Did We Learn Today?

The image of union workers on strike for this module provided under Creative Commons License by Mat McDermot

Quiz Answers:

Set 1 answers:  

 1. A-seven, many, single, twice

 2. C-semi driver

3. D-Happy Birthday, Kelly - From Maysie

4. B-bake

5. C-Place the hotdog in an open cereal bowl.

6. A-in the kitchen

Friday, September 4, 2020

Check-In with everyone

Hello! Let's talk about our 3-day weekend coming up. Who has special plans?

High Priority Vocabulary--GAME time!

If you have your sheet from the home packet, take it out to follow along. This is the *link to the digital handout.

PRESENTERS: Review the months with the group using the sheet. Show everyone the 3-letter abbreviation for January so that everyone understand what an abbreviation is. Then use the sheet as the score card for the game. You will be click-rolling digital dice (CLICK ON "THROW DICE") from the link for the players. See rules below.

If the game is too intricate for your group or patience, just roll the dice to decide which month to abbreviate. It gives addition and number/date correlation practice.

Game Rules

1. Person with the first initial that is earliest in the alphabet goes first. 
2. Staff will roll the digital dice here (click "throw dice")
3. On a player's turn the TOTAL of dice roll will indicate the month the player has to abbreviate. (there are two dice so we'll have to add)
4. If they get it right, staff, acting as score keeper, will put their name in by that month. 
5. IF SOMEONE ELSE already got that month, this will require a month-number challenge round between the two players
6. For the CHALLENGE: Re-roll the dice. The first player to correctly say or sign the correct month that goes with the number, gets their name on that month
7. After all the months are named, the person with the most months with their name wins.

Show & Share 

Team work is a key part of a lot of jobs. Most kinds of jobs can't be done without the work of others. When have you been on a work team? What did you like or dislike about it? What do you need from a teammate at work? What kind of teammate do you try to be?  

Next weeks Show & Share talks will be about memberships in different things. We are all members of different groups, clubs, lists and organizations. 

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Life Skills Story *Activity Sheet

This is a chance to learn about the different jobs and what the titles of the jobs mean. Follow the instructions on the activity sheet in shared view. People who have the sheet at home can follow along.

Here's the story link in case you need it. 

Generalize It Option

Do you know the kinds of job titles we have a Hope? Take a look at our website and see.

What companies would you like to work for? Go to their websites and look at their job offers.

Take a look at the job types on a job search website like indeed.

<Body Break> make it fun!

Thematic Connection — PLAY!

Did you know that playing is actually important for your health, well being, and even your brain power? For real! Check out this video about the importance of PLAYING. 

Sometimes we separate kid things from adult things. For example, you probably prefer that your clothes and possessions are designed for adults. But sometimes it's not so easy to figure out if we feel like adults or need to give in to our kid side a little. We all have some of the kid we used to be left inside. When we play or give in to acting silly sometimes we feel happy and joyful. Life gets fun and we enjoy being in the world. That doesn't mean we are not grown up. 

So here are some games you can play in Zoom just to laugh and enjoy yourselves.

Speed Hunt

Everybody get ready to find an object. When the presenter shouts the name of the object you have 2 minutes to find it and bring it to the camera. If you can't find it you'll have to pretend to BE it in the next round. 

PRESENTERS: Shout the names of super common household items like things in kitchen drawers, closets, or on coffee tables. You can lengthen or shorten the time depending on the mobility and agility of your participants.

NO LAUGHING! 

This is a group zoom adaptation of No Smiling!

Each player will take a turn being the person in the focused view. The player has 45 seconds to make the group laugh. If no one laughs, the audience all get a point. If one person laughs the player wins and gets a point. 

PRESENTERS: use this link for a countdown or watch a clock in your location

Freeze Dance

You know this. Just play the music and have everyone dance around, then hit pause and see who can't stop dancing. They're out. Start again.

Here's a fun, fast song

But feel free to choose your own music.

You'll Never Believe This...

Lies usually start by trying to cover something up. For this game each player tries to make their part of the lie weirder and more ridiculous than the last person's. Each player has to tell the whole lie from the beginning without forgetting anyone else's piece. The first person who can't remember a piece breaks the round. 

Staff start by asking a player "How did my favorite _______________ get broken?" 

Player one answers by saying "You'll never believe this but a _________________ came and ______________ it with its___________.

Staff asks the next player, "Is that true?"

Player two has to repeat what player 1 said and add "and then a _______________ came and..."

Player three has to repeat both items and add their own, and so on. 

Mad Libs

Try doing this one together. Mad Libs PDF

This weekend by joyful and kid-like. Find games to play and activities that make you forget the time and feel truly happy inside. 

What Did We Learn Today?