Safety & Person-Centered Focus
Monday, September 21, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello all! How was your weekend? Since today is September 21, who likes this song called September by Earth Wind and Fire?
PRESENTERS: an * (asterisk) will mean that link goes to a file that people should also have had delivered in their packets. Different programs and districts may make different decisions about what to send. You can lead the group through the online objects and have them follow along on paper at home as appropriate.
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We've talked about self-advocacy. This week we are going to learn about an important resource to help us get our voice heard and our needs onto the agenda of the people who make policy.
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High Priority Vocabulary
In each box circle the word that matches the direction.
PRESENTERS: Remember: CTRL and the + sign to zoom in, or clicking on the mouse that turns into a magnifier.
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Show & Share is about MONEY this week.
- How do you track your money?
- Do you track all of your money?
- Do you keep receipts?
- What do you do with them?
- If someone else handles your money, how involved are you in what they do and why?
- Are you interested in your money and what it's used for? Why or why not?
OPTIONAL Level Up
Discuss budgets and look at tools for tracking your money. Here is a link about saving money when you earn very little.
Tomorrow’s show and share will be about bank accounts. If you have one, you can tell us all about your bank or credit union and how you use your account.
<Body Break that means STEP AWAY FROM THE SCREEN FOR A FEW MINUTES... SERIOUSLY> Look away from the screen for 5 minutes, do some jumping jacks, walk around.
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Life Skills Story **Hotel Treat**
The year after they get out of high school, four Montana girls go on vacation to Florida.
Read the entire story today or read half and finish it tomorrow.
PRESENTERS: Read aloud with your group, or have some readers help. When reading aloud exaggerate tone and emotion somewhat to increase engagement.
<Body Break that means STEP AWAY FROM THE SCREEN FOR A FEW MINUTES... SERIOUSLY> Drink some water, do some breathing exercises, use the restroom.
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Thematic Connection: Pedestrian Safety
Head up, Phone Down
While we are out an about, we may not realize that looking down at our phones can put us a risk for injury. Now, we are all guilty of this, right? However, it’s always good to review safety tips to help us be on our A game all day-everyday!
1.Brainstorm with the White Board: What can happen if you are walking with your head down looking at your phone?
PRESENTERS: Use the white board option to type responses
Think of these situations:
- In a busy parking lot-Cars Driving into Parking spots, reversing, shopping carts rolling etc.
- Walking in your neighborhood-People on bikes, walking their dog, cars driving in and out of the driveway.
- In a busy Store- Shopping Carts and People rushing to get to certain parts of the store, store clerks stocking new items, custodians cleaning up spills
2.Share: Based off of your brainstorm-Do you know of anyone who has been personally involved in an accident or dealt with an injury because they were walking with their head down while using a cell phone? Staff share some stories too!
3.Tips for a friend: What can you do to stay safe while walking in your community?
Read the tips below and add a few of your own tips:
- Never walk while texting or talking on the phone
- If texting, move out of the way of others and stop on the sidewalk
- Do not walk with headphones in your ears
- Cross only at crosswalks
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Multitasking and Driving- Is it safe?
Since we are on the topic of safety, did you know that drivers on a cell phone can miss up to 50% of their driving environment? Before reading the Myth Versus Reality hand out, review a few things:
1.If you have a dictionary at home, go grab it! PRESENTERS: You can have a volunteer look up the meaning online too and share it with the group or go to this link and demonstrate looking up a word.
Define the Terms Below:
- Multitasking
- Myth
- Reality
2.Now that you have reviewed a few words-Provide an example of each before moving on.
Together, go over the handout on **The Great Multi-Tasking Lie TOP
and The Great Multi-Tasking Lie BOTTOM
This focuses on the Myths of Multitasking and driving. If you received a copy that was sent home, follow along and volunteer to read.
3.Review: Which Myth Surprised you?
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Bonus: Crossing Streets Safely Videos Rymes and Rythm
Pete's Street Smarts-Tips that Rhyme
(Presenter-Be Sure to click on the Captions button on the video)
Safely Crossing Streets with Captions
What Did We Learn Today?
Community & Civic Education
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Check-In
Good morning! What have you been thinking about?
High Priority Vocabulary
Objective: read and follow 2-step directions.
Look at “Two-step Directions.” You should have received a printed copy of this.
In this worksheet, we are practicing reading and following directions, so make sure you read the direction on the worksheet so that you know what to do!
PRESENTERS: you know your participants best. Either first give them time to work on the worksheet individually and then review, or share your screen and complete the worksheet as a group. Try to put enough of a pause between prompts and action to give people time to show their skill or knowledge.
If you want, after you complete and review the worksheet, you can practice giving and following directions as a group:
Option #1: Use Zoom’s whiteboard and annotate features. Go around and have different participants give a direction, such as “draw a circle” or “write your name and underline it,” and then see if everyone can use the annotate feature to follow the direction.
Option #2: Go around and have different participants take turns giving everyone a direction to follow, such as “put your hands on your head” or “make a silly face.” If you want, try playing a game of Simon Says.
Show & Share
- Do you have a bank account?
- How do you access it?
- What are some security issues with bank accounts?
- Does anyone do online banking?
- Does anyone use a credit union?
Tomorrow’s show and share: Have you ever borrowed money or used a credit card?
Body Break--like get away from the screen break...
How do you like to exercise? Do you like to walk? Do you prefer stretching? Or maybe you love to do push-ups! However you like to move, go ahead and do it!
Life Skills Story: Hotel Treat
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: Where do Hannah, Nina, Lana, and Gina decide to go? Why? When do they go there? Where do they stay?
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--go on now... get into the real world for a few minutes. Give your body what it needs, motion!
You know what to do!
Thematic Connection: Evaluating Clothes
Objective: evaluate clothes in terms of weather, formality, occasion, comfort, fit, condition, and style.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at many different ways to evaluate and talk about clothes: weather, formality, occasion, comfort, fit, condition, and style. Do you remember what those all mean?
Today, we are putting it all together to reflect on the different purposes for different clothes.
We wear clothes for many different purposes. For example, if it’s raining, you probably want to wear a jacket that will keep you dry. If you’re going to attend a formal event like a fancy dinner, you may need to wear a suit or nice dress. If you’re going to stay home all day, you may just choose to wear whatever is most comfortable. With friends, people often like to wear graphic t-shirts to show off what they like, and if you’re going swimming, you’ll probably want to wear a swimsuit!
Weather, formality, occasion, comfort, and style are all different reasons why we wear particular clothes. For example, what’s the “purpose” of a winter jacket?
PRESENTERS: open this slide show and then share your screen: Evaluating Clothes. Use this presentation to review the different ways we evaluate clothes and to practice identifying the “purpose” of different articles of clothing.
Next up, we have an activity where you can show what you know!
Grab your favorite clothes or outfits and share them with your group. Talk about them in terms of weather, formality, occasion, comfort, fit, condition, and style. How would you describe the “purpose” of your favorite article of clothing or outfit?
For example, if you favorite thing to wear is a particular t-shirt, what sorts of weather conditions is it appropriate for? What are some activities and events that your shirt is appropriate for? (And what are some events that it wouldn’t be appropriate for?) Is it comfortable? Does it fit you well? Is it in good condition? How would you describe the style of your shirt — what does it communicate about you?
Finally, why is it your favorite? Is it because it’s super comfortable? Is it your favorite because it shows off your favorite movie? Or is it your favorite for another reason?
If you have time, share and talk about your least favorite clothes as well! Do you have any formal clothing (like a dress shirt or a fancy dress) that you don’t like to wear but own because you need it for certain occasions?
OPTIONAL Level Up
Take a look at this itinerary for a vacation. You are going in February and it rains almost every day in Florida in February.
- Airplane flight to Orlando, Florida from San Jose - 4 hours
- Disneyland resort stay for 4 days, visiting Disneyland and Epcot Center
- 4-hour walking tour of Cape Canaveral to learn about the space program and see the Space Shuttle
- Rental car to the Everglades. Stay 3 days at an eco-resort and take boat tours, hikes, and a photo safari in the wetlands
- Rental car to Miami beach at a 4-star hotel for 2 nights
- Surf lessons at cocoa beach for a day
- Attend a fancy dinner at a very upscale restaurant, including dancing
- Spend a day at the spa and lounging by the pool
- 6-hour plane ride home the following day
Pretend you just won $1000 for a new wardrobe for your vacation. What would you buy that is appropriate for all these different activties?
What did we learn today?
Story Quiz Answers
- B: That’s when they have a break from school.
- B: 4
- A: They found a good deal.
- C: maiden name
- A: adventure
- C: When pointing up, the arrow is also pointing North.
- A: 10 minutes
- B: red socks
- C: a non-driving state ID
Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello everyone. Bet you never saw a food fight like this one! In the following match ups which food would win?
Broccoli vs Oreo Cookie
Hershey's Kiss vs Garlic cloves
Mango vs Vanilla Cone
*High Priority Vocabulary handout
Today there are 3 steps for each item. THREE!! That's a lot of steps.
PRESENTERS: Share screen and DO NOT READ INSTRUCTIONS ALOUD for as long as possible. Give time for readers AND nonreaders to read or recognize the direction words.
Reading/recognizing the words and responding correctly is the objective. The activity is meaningless if you read the instructions aloud for everyone too soon.
OPTIONAL TEACHING SKILLS CHALLENGE! lead this activity without you yourself saying anything.
Validate that they have read it correctly and repeat for any pre-readers. Then give time for people to take action.
Either have individuals show the camera how they are doing the steps, or use this slide deck to show the outcomes of the directions. Remember to use "present" button to fill the screen.
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Show & Share—Borrowing Money
- Have you ever borrowed money from anyone and paid it back?
- Have you ever lent anyone money?
- Does anyone have a credit card?
- How is a credit card different from money?
- Has anyone ever used layaway?
- Have you ever borrowed for something big like a car or your education?
Tomorrow's Show & Share will be about your financial rights. Do you know what rights you have when it comes to your money? Do you know what a conservator is? What rights do you think you SHOULD have when it comes to money?
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<Body Break> Make your body happy
Life Skills Stories
For this week's discussion questions you can use a random picker for which questions to talk about.
OR you can scan them yourselves and decide which ones interest your group.
Go to this online dice and CHANGE THE NUMBER OF SIDES ON THE DICE TO 12 because that's how many questions you have to choose from.
(can you pronounce the name of the shape for a 12-sided die?)
Then roll the die and use these links to find the discussion question. Choose at least 3 questions to discuss.
PRESENTERS: Review the activities below and put them in the order that words for your group. Feel free to make them more complex or slow them down to meet the needs in your group.
<Body Break> Make your body happy
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Thematic Connection: Ordering Healthful Food
Did you know that restaurants cook food differently than we cook at home? Restaurant chefs use A LOT more salt, sugar and oil in their cooking. Many restaurants also soak their vegetables and fruits in chemicals called SULFIDES which make the fresh items look fresh many days longer than they would in your fridge at home. Some people are allergic to sulfides.
On the other hand, eating in a restaurant is usually a special occasion. Richer, saltier, sweeter food tastes DELICIOUS and if we don't eat it all the time, it's OK to enjoy it for special times.
So, to include restaurant foods in our diet and still be good to our bodies we have a few choices to consider.
Choice 1: What's the Occasion?
This spinner has 20 events on it. Spin it and vote in your group on whether it's a special occasion where eating something rich or fattening would be appropriate, or if it's an ordinary event that doesn't really require special food.
PRESENTERS: Spin the survey wheel and take the vote. If the same occasion repeats on a spin, spin to get a different result. Try for 5 different events to vote on. The goal is for participants to differentiate things that merit special food from ordinary things.
Choice 2: What's Healthful to Order?
Review the *Ordering Healthy Meals handout together and discuss what are considered healthful choices in restaurants.
<Body Break> Make your body happy
Choice 3: Special Requests
We know that restaurants cook things in less healthy ways so sometimes we can make special requests to improve the quality of our restaurant meal. But if we're not used to doing it, it's a good idea to practice.
This is a sample dialog for ordering an entree in a restaurant. Listen to it and answer the following questions together.
- Did the customer order a healthy choice?
- How would you find out if the noodles are fried in oil?
- How would you make sure your salad doesn't have too much dressing?
- How would you find out how the mushroom burger is cooked?
PRESENTERS: You can change your zoom audio settings to "system sounds" so the audio will work better in the meeting.
Building the Perfect Salad
PRESENTERS: The take home packet included a set of produce cards that can be used to build a paper representation of a sald. Have those who can, cut it apart.
If you have the pictures of vegetables and fruit, cut them apart. Choose the cards that represent your choices for vegetables and fruits you like in salad. Show everyone your "card salad" and tell us what dressing you'd prefer.
PRESENTERS: Use the *Salad Worksheet to further explore the salads people created and check knowledge. Use the questions that make sense for the way your group is working.
What Did We Learn Today?
Self-Advocacy, Rights & Responsibilities
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello everyone.
*High Priority Vocabulary handout
This worksheet has some strange instructions. Sometimes we skip reading instructions because we think we already know what to do. This worksheet helps us remember to pay attention to the DIRECTIONS not just the content of the page.
PRESENTERS: This worksheet is more sophisticated than it seems. The point is to alert learners to the fact that the CONTENT doesn't necessarily indicate what needs to be done. Once again, hold back on reading the directions aloud as long as possible to give learners a chance to show their own ability to read and interpret. Point out to them that doing the math problems is a different step than the directions first ask for.
Discuss the correlation to working. It's important when we work for someone not to assume we know what to do just because we are interpreting the environment. You can use the example to make the point or come up with your own.
Alice came in to work and saw a mop and bucket set out for her. There was note on her locker that said "Please clean the bucket and clean the mop head in the heavy duty washer in the basement." Alice didn't read the note and started mopping the 2nd floor. How do you think her boss reacted?
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Show & Share
- What rights do you know you have when it comes to your money?
- Do you have access to your money?
- If you don't, why is that?
- Do you agree with that?
- When we budget or allocate our money we plan how to spend it in advance so it won't run out. What kind of budgeting do you do?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: <text>
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<Body Break> Check out this Video of Dancer " Fik Shun" Anyone want to show their best Robot dance skills?
Life Skills Stories
PRESENTERS: Review Life Skills Stories then answer Life Skills Questions. Both sets are available to discuss if time permits.
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Thematic Connection:
Let's talk Dress Codes
Dress codes are often associated with school and work settings. Here is a Video on one perspective of school dress codes.
Discussion Questions:
- What is a Dress Code ?
- Have you ever had to follow a Dress Code?
- Which parts of the video do you agree/disagree with?
- What do you think is the purpose of certain rules for clothing in a work place or school?
- What would happen if you didn't follow a dress code for jobs like:
- Chef:
- Firefighter :
- Cashier :
- Police Officer:
- Mechanic:
6. What are some jobs that may not need/have Dress Codes?
PRESENTERS: Play the video on school Dress Codes. Use the discussion questions to help participants differentiate between School and work attire codes.
Answers to Life Skills Questions
Set 1
Set 2
What Did We Learn Today?
Knowledge & Fun With Friends
Friday, September 24, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello everyone.
*High Priority Vocabulary handout
The instructions say to fill in a direction word then give the card to a friend to solve. We can do a similar thing in the zoom space. Have one person suggest a direction word for the card and spell it or have someone else spell it. Add the word to the card in shared view if you like.
NOW switch it up!
PRESENTERS: you'll be the one who has to follow the direction using the annotation tool in shared view. Do some correctly and others incorrectly. Compare your output to the work of anyone doing the worksheet along at home. The group decides if you did it right or wrong.
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Show & Share - Luck, Money and Bets
Sometimes people like to gamble as a form of entertainment. Gambling, or placing bets, with money can be dangerous. Sometimes people get carried away with gambling and ruin their finances. People also bet with things that aren't money. Let's talk about the differences.
- Have you ever gone to a casino and played the games? Where? Did you win or lose?
- If you have made personal bets with friends what did you use for your bet? Was it money? Favors? Pranks?
- If you lose in a casino, can you decide not to pay up? What about if you lose to a friend?
- In adult life we have freedoms when we accept the responsibilities that go with them. If we enjoy gambling as a form of entertainment we have to be responsible about it. If a person wanted to gamble for a little while in a casino, what would be a responsible way to make sure they don't get carried away and spend too much money?
- For people who have gone to a casino, what does the casino do to get people to spend more and more of their money?
Next week's Show & Share theme is Me, Myself and I where you'll start using some new tools to help everyone understand each other better.
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<Body Break> Make your body happy
Life Skills Stories
Who doesn't love a vacation, even if it's imaginary! Review this *Life Skills Activity Handout together and use internet searching to find information to fill in the boxes, or rely on the knowledge in your group.
PRESENTERS: You can do this activity with the handout as the visual focus OR just use it to review the prompt/question in each box and provide a reading practice opportunity, then close screen sharing and discuss the prompt as a group.
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Thematic Connection: Fun in the Time of Covid
Stuck in a rut? Doing the same things every day? Let's change that! We are going to use today to "plant" surprises and giggles in our world to enjoy in the immediate future.
Choose the ones that appeal to you. You can try them or come up with your own ideas. The whole point is to add VARIETY to your experience.
Planting Affection for our Friends
Friendship is the greatest gift we give and the greatest gift we get. Let's "plant" some surprise affection for our friends.
- Go get a sheet of paper and something to write with
- Think of someone who lives in your house, or visits you regularly.
- Draw a picture or write a message, or both, to that person. Make it happy, silly, funny. Here are some ideas: draw a picture of a hug, write a poem thanking them for being your friend, draw a picture of a present and sign your name, draw a picture of things that come in pairs, like shoes, book ends then label one "YOU" and the other "ME"- you get the idea, be creative
- Fold that sheet of paper very small.
- Find a place to hide your message where they will find it later. If it's a roommate or family member, hide it in a place they go every day, like a dresser drawer, a pocket in their favorite jacket, or even tape it to their toothbrush. If it's someone who visits you all the time, wait until they visit and leave it on their chair or on their plate if you eat together.
Plant a Surprise for Your Mouth!
If you do the shopping for yourself this one is easy. If someone else does the shopping they'll have to agree to help you.
- Look at all the regular groceries you buy each week.
- Decide, or ask the shopper person in your life, to buy a few things you've never, ever tried before.
- Examples: choose some produce looks unusal. Here are some interesting items you can try that are seasonally available in a grocery store.
- Look in ETHNIC foods and buy from a culture different from yours. If you are used to Asian flavors, check out Middle Eastern items or brands. If you like Mexican food, experiment with Jewish items. Look for packages that have a foreign language on them.
- Most fun of all are desserts and snacks section. Lots of very fancy delicacies are desserts and really wake up your mouth. You can find them in the snacks or candy section, frozen foods, or even deli items. Try something IMPORTED (that means it comes from a different country)
<Body Break> Stand up or sit up tall and learn this song together. We sing better when we're standing tall. Move to the rhythm.
Plant a Surprise for Your Ears
- If you use an alarm clock, try switching to a radio station you NEVER normally listen to and get woken up to people or music you aren't used to. It will really get your attention, especially if you forget that you changed it.
- If you haven't listened to the radio in a long time, try it again. If you do listen to the radio, choose a new station, maybe in a different language. The Bay Areas has communities of every language and many have their own stations.
- If you are into YouTube, next time try changing to YouTube from a different country. Do a search for YouTube from _____________ and put in any country. Click that link to watch videos from a whole different place.
Plant Some Laughter
Laughter Yoga is a real thing. Do you know that even if you don't laugh for real you get health benefits just PRETENDING to laugh?! Check out this Laughter Session and do it together
Plant a Surprise for Everyone's Eyes
Make a centerpiece for a table in your house. Flowers aren't the only way to make a centerpiece. You can use things from your garden, collections you have, even everyday objects like drinking glasses, toys, books or CONDIMENTS (salt, pepper, ketchup, mustard, soy sauce...)
- Find a large plate, a shallow bowl, or a small tray.
- Get the items you will arrange - rocks, plants, food, containers, jewelry, collectibles, just about anything you think is interesting looking.
- If you have some ribbon for wrapping gifts in the house, get that too. If you have some pretty cloth napkins or a scarf you like, you can use them too.
- Arrange your objects in the plate or tray using these tips: Put fabric either as a lining for the plate/tray, or to curl around objects once you place them. Put the taller items together and arrange the smaller things either around them, or to just one side of them. Tie ribbons, if you use them, around the things you want people to notice.
all of these arrangements were art in museums
What Did We Learn Today?
