Tuesday, September 29, 2020 

Check-In 

Good morning! 

High Priority Vocabulary 

Look at “Make a Card.” You should have received a printed copy of this. 

Option #1: Follow the directions on the card to make a greeting card for someone. You will require another sheet of paper, scissors, glue or tape, and crayons or colored pencils. 

Option #2: Color in the pictures on the paper and then cut them out. 

Presenters: Encourage participants to follow option #1 if they are able. See if they are able to read and follow the directions on their own without someone else reading it out loud for them. Otherwise, prompt participations to follow option #2.

Additionally, you may want to open the worksheet, share your screen, and as a group use Zoom’s annotate feature to color in the pictures. 

Show & Share  

Have you ever interviewed for a job before? If you did, what did you wear? If you haven’t, what do you think you should wear to an interview? 

Tomorrow’s show and share: what does your family wear to work? 

Body Break 

Get away from that computer screen for a few minutes. Move around, look outside, and take some deep breaths. 

Life Skills Story: Secret Sounds 

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: Whose car did Kyle see out front? What did Kyle’s mom propose they do? What did Todd do? Why? 

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 

You know what to do: move! 

Thematic Connection: Clothing & Community Engagement

What’s our theme for Tuesdays? 

What have we been learning about on Tuesdays this month? 

Today we are putting those together: let’s have a conversation about how what we wear relates to community and civic engagement. 

Let’s look how some people out in the community are dressed. Would you say they’re dressed appropriately? Why or why not? What do you think of how these people are dressed? 

Presenters: open this slide show and then share your screen: Dress in the Community. Use this presentation to facilitate your discussion. 

Show & Share: Do you have some clothes that you usually wear only at home? Do you have other clothes that you usually only wear outside the house? How are clothes that we wear out in public different from clothes that we wear around the house? 

Show & Share: Share about a time that you attended a special event. How did you dress? Is that different from how you usually dress? 

What did we learn today? 

Story Quiz Answers 

1. B: She was keeping a secret. 
2. C: Todd’s 
3. B: He was protecting the counter. 
4. C: marble 
5. A: remote 
6. A: 11” long 
7. C: bottom 
8. B: 8 yards 
9. A: telling a lie 

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Check-In with everyone

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*High Priority Vocabulary Sheet

PRESENTERS: Show participants the sheet to find in their packet. They can use their sheet as it is, or cut it up into squares. 

Instruction OPTION 1: 

• Open this Slide presentation and put into PRESENT mode with the button on the upper right. 
• Show the animated GIF and ask participants to identify the correct word or icon from their worksheet. 
• HAVE THEM SAY THE WORD, DON'T PROVIDE IT unless you're sure they can't figure it out. 
• Spell the word together. 
• When you CLICK the slide again, the image of the sheet with the correct word and icon highlighted will appear to give feedback.
• Click to go to the next slide

Instruction OPTION 2: 

• Use *the link to the sheet and share screen.  
• Randomly SAY or CIRCLE one of the words and 
• prompt participants to show their choice to the camera or stamp on the matching image in shared mode.  
• Give feedback on their choices. 

Show & Share — What do members of your household or family wear to work? 

1. Does what they wear tell others what their job is?
2. Is their ATTIRE (clothes one wears) a uniform, formal business wear, business-casual, or weekend-casual?  
3. Do they still go to a work place away from the house during Covid? If NOT, has their clothing changed?
4. Do they wear make-up, jewelry, or other ACCESSORIES? (accessories are things we wear that aren't quite clothes, like watches, belts, hats, or gloves) 

Tomorrow's Show & Share: Have you ever worn a uniform to work? If you did and you still have it, show us!

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<Body Break> Make your body happy 

Life Skills Stories : *Making Decisions & Compromising

Using the Discussion Questions for this week's Life Skills Story, discuss the questions titled Making Decisions and Compromising. 

Elaborate the discussion into exploring how people make choices and decisions using the following questions OR the natural conversation that flows in your group.

1. When you have to decide something, do you take a long time or a short time?
2. What is the most recent decision you made?
3. What needs and wants do you think about about when you are deciding things? 
4. Are you good at compromising?
5. What is the difference between giving in and compromising?
6. Is it easier or harder to find a good compromise when there are more people involved? 

Applying the Lesson

It's time for everyone to help decide more about how the program is going to work. Today we're going to do an activity that will help your group choose what you want to do on Friday. 

PRESENTERS: This is our first attempt to see if we can do a preference assessment as part of the learning activity then use it later in the week. To CAPTURE the results of your group's decision you can

• tell the group you are going to record the discussion then press the record button and save the video to your local computer
• open the whiteboard and write or doodle the preferences people give
• Use  a pencil and paper and show everyone at the end of the activity to confirm the decisions the group made.

Review these activities as a group. You're not going to DO any of them unitl Friday. You are choosing the activities for Friday.

See what your group likes. Use compromise to select ONLY 1-3 to do in your group on Friday. 

For any crafts be sure everyone knows what supplies they'll need for Friday. 

These same links will be in Friday's session with additional supports/instructions.

PERFORM

• Drama activity 01--have a zoom talent show. Each person choose a song or dance or other performance, rehearse and record your show.
• Drama activity 02-- everyone pretend you are all on a roller coaster together. Then coordinate your movements so everyone is leaning forward, back, sideways, arms up screaming, all at the same time once you know the "ride" record your performance as a video in the gallery view so it looks like everyone is sitting on a coaster together. 
• Learn a song and sing it together - practice until you're confident then record it
• Dance Party - find a good playlist on youtube and dance yourselves happy on Friday

SEASONAL

• Design a monster -- Use this cheat sheet to understand the project. Make a list of supplies to bring on Friday for the activity 
• Try a recipe for fake blood -- choose the recipe and make sure everyone knows what ingredients to have on Friday
• Carve a bar of soap -- look at this video and identify the supplies you'll need for Friday
• Make a DIY halloween costume --choose one costume, or PART of a costume, everyone  can make and be clear about the supplies needed  for Friday OR look at the costume ideas and discuss which ones each person would like and how to make it.
• Make a Fall decoration - OWL - SCARECROW -  MAIZE - LEAVES

WORK

• Practice zoom interviewing  -  this can also be recorded for future reference
• Practice filling out online job applications - links to online job application sites will be in Friday's session
• Getting to know people at work better - a tip sheet with role plays on how to converse with people at work 

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What Did We Learn Today?

Thursday, October 1, 2020 

Check-In with everyone

How is everyone dealing with this heat wave?

*High Priority Vocabulary - Recognize the Words

PRESENTERS: We are only using the bottom two activities. It Takes Two and Research It are modified for zoom activity with the links below. Do one, or both, or a variation you invent.

It Takes Two

Use this random picker to play  as a group.  When it's your turn the presenter will pick a new word. Read it out loud and act it out at the same time. 

Low Vision option: the presenter will either spell the word out loud, or describe the action so you can guess the word. 

PRESENTERS: click the black button labeld RETURN to make a word from the list appear. For low vision players, spell out the word or describe the action. 

Research It

Open up the PDF and try and recognize the direction words from Wednesday. Use the whiteboard feature to circle words. 

You will also find new direction words. Identify the new words and use your web browers to discuss and define each new word. 

Show & Share !

Have you ever had to wear a uniform for school or work? Do you still have it?

Tomorrow's Show & Share is: Did you ever get a shirt from a team you were with?

<Body Break> 

Sometimes it works to dance your worries away!  Here is a great song for that!

Life Skills Questions/Quiz 

Life Skills Questions Set 1

Life Skills Questions Set 2 

<Body Break> 

Best Jobs Ever?

Have you ever had a job that made you happy to come to work each time you had a shift?

What was that job and what about it made you so happy to work there?

Here is an article with 20 amazing and unique careers out in the world. 

PRESENTERS: Promt participants to explore different facets of a fun job. For example, feeding the Wales at a marine sancturary would be amazing if you liked sea life. What other jobs might you be able to do to also work closely with marine life?

Sometimes we think jobs can be boring and options are few. Here is a VIDEO of 51 People With The Coolest Jobs In The World.

PRESENTERS:  Feel free to use as much or little of this video to pause and discuss some promts with participants.

IMPORTANT: The video has text explanations of each job. Please read descriptions allowed or call for volunteers to read.

1. What level of satisfaction or happiness  would you get from some of these  jobs?
2. Does everyone have to like all the same careers and jobs?
3. If you started a job and tried your best  but still wasn't enjoying yourself. What could you do to fix that?

What Did We Learn Today?

Quiz Answers:

Set 1 answers:  

1.D

2.A

3.B

4.C

5.D

6.A

Set 2 answers:  

1.D

 2.C

 3.B

 4.D

 5.D

 6.A

Friday, October 2, 2020

Check-In with everyone

How about a rhythm activity that teaches us some music reading? Optional of course.

Show & Share 

1. Did you ever get a shirt from a team you were with? Why do you think teams get shirts or other clothes that show they are a team? 
2. Are there other reasons when you were part of a group that dressed the same? 
3. How is a team shirt or company jacket different from dressing for an OCCASION like a wedding or formal dance?

Next week's Show & Share is humor!! For Monday, be ready to tell a joke. 

<Body Break> You can get up, dance around your house, get a drink, go look outside. 

*High Priority Vocabulary Worksheet

So this is our assessment of how well we learned these words. Follow along if you have the printed page. 

PRESENTERS: if you have good writers/spellers in your group do JUST section 3. Otherwise, skip 3.

1. Open the sheet and for the first section have each person read a single word.
2. For the second section using the text tool type the first half of one of the direction words into a box, but in a different order from part 1.  Have people guess the rest of the word. Add letters until they get it.
3. For GOOD SPELLERS use JUST section three but have everyone get a sheet of paper or turn the page they got over to write on the back. Stop sharing the screen and have them spell the words as you read them off. Then show the answers and have them check their work.

*Life Skills Stories Activity Sheet

PRESENTERS: demonstrate how to hold a sheet of paper up to an object and reposition it to count how long something is. 

1. For this worksheet get a regular sheet of paper and hold it up against the object you are measuring. Count how many lengths of paper the object is.

Thematic Connection: Choices made on Wednesday

1. Remember the decisions you made on Wednesday about the activities to do today? 
2. Did you get your materials for what your group chose?
3. How are you feeling about your choices today? Are you still into it? Or did your feelings change a little?

So here are the links to your activities. Get any appropriate materials ready, or get ready in other ways for your chosen activities. 

PERFORM

Drama activity 01--have a zoom talent show. Each person choose a song or dance or other performance, rehearse and record your show.

• comics
• singers
• dancers
• story-tellers
• actors
• musicians

Drama activity 02-- everyone pretend you are all on a roller coaster together. Then coordinate your movements so everyone is leaning forward, back, sideways, arms up screaming, all at the same time once you know the "ride" record your performance as a video in the gallery view so it looks like everyone is sitting on a coaster together. 

Roller Coaster Sound Track - start at 1:30 to get past the introduction

Learn a song and sing it together - practice until you're confident then record it

Acapella Warm-up Exercise

Songs to Choose From - or pick your own

Dance Party - ready to boogie your  Friday off?

2019 Dance Party MashUp on YouTube

SEASONAL

Design a monster -- Use this cheat sheet to start your monster. 

1. Get a sheet of paper, big is great but any size is good
2. Choose a body shape and fill the page with that shape
3. Add on the arms and legs. Remember, they don't have to be in the same places as they are on people...
4. Use these ideas to inspire a face. Gentle face   Scary Face
5. Add color!

Fake Blood Recipes

Got your ingredients? Let's give it a try!

PRESENTERS: when you open the how-to page, scroll down to the different recipes and click on the title of the one your group wants to try. It will go to PICTURES of how to make it.

Carve a bar of soap -- Video

Carve a bar of soap -- slides

Use the video and or the slides to carve a bar of soap into a new shape. 

Make a DIY halloween costume --choose one costume, or PART of a costume, everyone  can make. Either make it with the supplies you brought today, or discuss ideas you like and plan your costume.

Make a Fall decoration

If you picked one of these projects, get out your materials.

 - OWL - SCARECROW -  MAIZE - LEAVES

WORK

Practice zoom interviewing  -  this can also be recorded for future reference

Script of Interview Questions

tips for video interviews

tips for looking good on camera

Practice filling out online job applications - 

PRESENTERS: Show how to scroll a page and look at options,  input a city and search, and find APPLY links

Target

PetSmart

Raleys

Commercial Cleaning

Getting to know people at work better - 

PRESENTERS: CTRL and the + key make it zoom in, CTRL and "0" make it go back to normal

A tip sheet with role plays on how to converse with people at work 

Sample Dialogs to listen to

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What Did We Learn Today?