Safety & Person-Centered Focus
Monday, October 05, 2020
Check-In
Hello all! New Monday. New Week. New Goals.
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High Priority Vocabulary
PRESENTERS: Quickly show learners this first list of high-frequency words and say we'll be practicing recognizing these words in any place we find them. Being fluent with high frquency words makes reading more accurate and faster, which is important in life skills like filling out forms and understanding instructions.
Read the word in the box then write that word on the lines. After you have completed the steps read the cards out loud.
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Show & Share
Today we will show and share: Tell us a joke you think is funny.
Tomorrow’s show and share: Have you ever played a good-natured prank on someone? Has someone ever played a good-natured prank on you?
<Body Break> Get up, look away from the screen.
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Life Skills Story
In this story, three teenage boys discuss professional and high school basketball.
Read the whole story today, or read half and finish tomorrow.
<Body Break> Get up, look away from the screen.
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Thematic Connection: Hearing Protection
October is National Audiology Awareness Month.
!!COMMUNITY CHALLENGE!! How can we make our zoom meeting better for everyone in hope to home who has hearing loss or deafness?
How can you spread awareness about protecting your ears?
Activity 1.
1. Do you know the parts of the ear? Open up the Work sheet, PARTS OF THE EAR
2. Using the PDF provided-identify the different parts of the ear.
(Presenter: Make sure to zoom in on the different parts, so everyone can see it up close.)
3. After you have identified, you can use the annotate option to color the different parts of the ear.
Reflect:
- Did you already know some of the parts before looking at this sheet?
- Were you suprised with some of the names?
- Do you think you can remeber all of the parts?
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Activity 2.
1. How often do you use protection? Let’s do a search online to find certain equipment on how we can protect our ears.
(Presenter: You can share your screen to start a search online or have a volunteer share their screen)
2. Next, Find some examples of the equipment, ask the group if they have used the examples you just looked up.
3. When did you use the examples and where?
Here is a list of some ear protection tools:
- Foam Ear Plugs
- Pre-Mold Reusable Plugs
- Canal Caps
- Ear Muffs
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Activity 3.
Myth VS Fact- Test your skills!
(Presenters: Using the follow statements, ask participants if they think it is a myth or a fact) (Answers provide at the end of the page)
A. Portable music and video devices do not affect your hearing.
B. Hearing loss does not affect newborn babies.
C. Everyone who has hearing loss is older than age 65.
D. Everyday loud activities do not affect your hearing.
E. Dizziness and balance disorders are simply inconvenient and not that harmful.
F. Hearing loss does not affect your day-to-day life.
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OPTIONAL : Poster from American Academy of Audiology
Tips to protect your hearing
1. Use earplugs
Louder, longer exposure to noise increases the chance of damaging your hearing.
2. Turn down the music
Use personal music players at moderate volumes. To drown out background noise get noise canceling headphones. It's too loud if others can hear sound from your headphones.
4. Wear headphones
To use a personal music device, choose noise-cancelling headphones, or older muff-type headphones. Earbuds and in-ear headsets let in more background noise. Take regular breaks from headphones to give ears a rest.
5. Turn down the dial
Turn down the volume a notch on TV's, radios and stereos. Even a small reductions can make a big difference to preserving hearing.
6. At live concerts use earplugs. Music venues ususally sell them and you'll still enjoy the music because we feel the bass and rhythm sounds in our bones as vibrations, not just in our ears.
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What did you learn today?
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Answers for Myth VS Fact:
Guess what? They are all a myths!
A. 1.1 billion people risk hearing loss from unsafe personal use of portable music devices.
B. About 6 out of 1,000 babies have a significant hearing problem at birth. More than 4,000 babies are born with a hearing loss each year.
C. Half of people with hearing loss are younger than 65.
D. Hearing loss can be caused by lawn/farm equipment, concerts, sporting events, firework shows, hair dryers, firearms, and alarm clocks. A single exposure to excessive noise can cause permanent hearing loss.
E. Untreated dizziness and balance disorders increase falls leading to hip fractures, broken bones, and head traumas.
F. People with untreated hearing loss are often left out of communication and have feelings of loneliness, isolation, depression, and frustration.
Community & Civic Education
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Check-In
Good morning!
High Priority Vocabulary
Look at * “Word Search.” You should have received a printed copy of this.
As a group, practice using the following words in a sentence: a, can, I, in, see.
Then, try to find those words in the word search.
Presenters: Give participants a couple minutes to complete the word search on their own. Then, open the word search, share your screen, and review it together. Use the annotate feature to mark the words.
Next, make your own word search!
Presenters: Give participants a couple minutes to make their own word searches. Then, use the annotate feature to make a word search (or invite a participant to do this) and ask participants to find the words.
Show & Share
Have you ever played a good-natured prank on someone? Has someone ever played a good-natured prank on you?
Good natured pranks are fun, but sometimes pranks can be mean-spirited or dangerous. What questions can we ask ourselves if we want to play a prank on someone to make sure it's good natured and safe?
Tomorrow’s show and share: Who is your favorite comedy actor or stand-up comedian?
Body Break
You know what to do: get away from this screen and go move your body!
Bonus points for drinking some water!
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: what do Mitch, Todd, and Kyle say about Kobe Bryant? What does Mitch want to do after high school? Does he think it’s realistic? What does Kyle do for the basketball team?
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!
Thematic Connection: Differentiating Spaces, Both Real and Virtual
Last Tuesday, we talked about clothing and community engagement. Depending on where we are in the community and what we’re doing, we may need to dress in different ways.
Today, we’re going to talk about something similar: we often need to act in different ways depending on where we are or what we’re doing. This is true both in “real life” and also online in virtual spaces, like Zoom!
- What’s something that you would do at home that you wouldn’t do at program? Why?
- What’s something that you might do while hanging out with friends that you wouldn’t do at work? Why?
- Why do/should we act differently at home, at work, at program, and with friends?
- At home, you probably sleep in your bedroom. Many of us join online programming from our bedrooms. Does that mean it’s okay to sleep during online programming?
- How should we act on Zoom during online programming?
- What if you were just video chatting with one friend or with your family? How might you act differently?
What did we learn today?
Story Quiz Answers
- A: None of them. Since it is an opinion, there is no right or wrong answer.
- C: He thinks he has no chance.
- B: He keeps the stats.
- A: stats
- C: well-rounded
- C: nurse
- B: 44 minutes and 53 seconds
- B: You are talking to your best friend.
- B: 8 hours per night
Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Check-In with everyone
PRESENTERS: have participants follow along with their worksheet. Use your voice to emphasize the vocabulary word to increase recognition for learners.
Top Half
Share screen and have someone read the word that is being found in each sentence. Give everyone time to find it in the sentence. Have someone in the group tell you what words are next to it. Use annotation to circle it then read the sentence aloud with emphasis on the high frequency word.
Bottom Half
As a group, make up a sentence that uses the word on the left. Dictate the sentence for strong writers to add it on their sheets. You can also type it into the shared screen with the text annotation tool.
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Show & Share - Who is your favorite comedy actor or stand up comedian? When did you first realize you like that person? How would you describe their humor? Some types of humor are
- physical or slapstick, like falling down, or pies in the face
- self-depracating - means the comic makes fun of themselves more than other things
- improvisation or improv - people just make up funny sketches live without a script
- Deadpan - the comedian or actor stays serious which makes the funny stuff funnier
- Puns or "Dad" jokes - the multiple meanings of words are funny
- Potty humor - make fun of human body functions
Tomorrow's Show & Share: What is your favorite funny movie or TV show? Can you act out or describe a funny scene for us?
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<Body Break> do some eye exercises on this break. Go outside or by a window and open and close your eyes, roll them around, give them some real light and let them look at natural things instead of screens.
Life Skills Stories - (story text if needed)
PRESENTERS: Choose 2-4 discussion questions you know would suit your group and remind them of the story.
Teacher Tip: Use the active listening tool of repeating someone's answers to them to confirm understanding AND support better verbal expression.
Complete the activity below to choose some future life skills activities.
The purpose of hope to home is to help everyone continue to develop our life and work skills. We can use Life Skills Discussion questions to start using more voice and choice in program.
This week's story has all these discussion topics in it. Which would you like to discuss further? Learn about? Teach? Practice? Write down your choices for Friday's session.
- Identifying Realistic Job Possibilities
- Asking for Help When Needed
- Reading Abbreviations
- Understanding Quantity Relationships
- Ratios
- Understanding Optical Illusions
- Exploring Situation-Appropriate Speech/Actions
- Reading Charts, Tables, and Graphs
- Calculating Quantities
- Understanding Sports Statistics
- Scoring Sports
- Getting Enough Sleep
<Body Break>
Wellness - Love Your Tummy - Digestion
You can have your snack or drink with you as you learn about digestion.
Look at *this diagram together.
PRESENTERS: Remember you can CLICK on the document (mouse turns into a magnifier) to enlarge the text on the page.
PRESENTERS: Click and drag on the model to move it around. Click the numbers to see specific parts identified. Float your mouse over the middle to make a bar appear with arrows you can click to go part by part in order.
Digestion Words
Which of *these terms are new? Add them to your vocabulary.
Be Kind to Your Tum Tum
How many of *these tips have you been using since we first learned about fiber in July?
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What Did We Learn Today?
Self-Advocacy, Rights & Responsibilities
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Use the HPV words to complete the sentences. Circle your choices.
PRESENTERS: Remember you can zoom in by clickingg on the image when the mouse is a magnifier
Show & Share — What is your favorite funny movie or TV show? Can you act out or describe a funny scene for us?
Tomorrow's Show & Share : Who in your personal life makes you laugh? Who do you make laugh?
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*Life Skills Questions/Quiz Set 1
*Life Skills Questions/Quiz Set 2
Choose one of the quizzes and go over the questions. Check your answers together at the bottom.
PRESENTERS: Remember to allow enough time between a prompt and people's response. If strong readers/writers want to complete the other quiz too, show both answer sets.
(ANSWERS AT BOTTOM OF PAGE)
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Thematic Connection: Rights & Advocacy
All about Email!
Watch this video about Email etiquette in a professional setting.
PRESENTERS: Pause video after each suggestion pointters to discuss reasoning behnid the professional tip.
Here is an informative article about how to end emails properly and appropriately
- What are some ways you can "sign-off" an email to a Friend?
- What are some ways you can "sign-off" an email to your supervisor at work?
- What are some ways you can "sign-off" an email to a family member or loved one?
Let's test our skills with this sample email.
PRESENTERS : Pull up the sample email and allow participants to annotate the places where they think there should be a change. Follow up with a discussion. If time permits, rewrite the email as a group.
What Did We Learn Today?
Quiz Answers:
Set 1 answers: 1.D, 2.D, 3.D, 4.B, 5.B, 6.A
Set 2 answers: 1. C, 2.B, 3.A, 4.D, 5.A, 6.C
Knowledge & Fun With Friends
Friday, October 9, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello!
Branching out to some new words. Fill the blanks with the word and read the statements.
OPTIONAL Level Up Challenge
Box 1: Come to ________
For each location, decide if you need the word "the" before the location, or not.
- hospital
- work
- restaurant
- dentist's office
- church/temple
Box 2: Did
Make each sentence into a question
Show & Share — Who in your personal life makes you laugh? How do they do it? How do you make other people laugh?
Trivia: Did you know that Chimpanzees can tickle themselves? They do it to entertain themselves.
Next week's Show & Share Theme is GAMES!! Bring your favorite card game to share with us. We share work-appropriate things in this space. No CAH or other strictly adult content.
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ADVOCACY & RIGHTS
Check your voter registration status on this page. Click on the icon with the "i" -- PRESENTERS: if you have Spanish speakers show the Spanish links on the right navy blue box.
*Life Skills Story Activity Sheet
This one is challenging. Use the information at the top of the sheet to answer the questions at the bottom.
PRESENTERS: Don't forget you can enlarge view by clicking the magnifier or using CTRL key and + key.
Thematic Connection — Voice and Choice
Here are those topics from Wednesday with an activity you can do for each one. You can also just discuss the topic, or come up with your own way of learning more about it.
- Identifying Realistic Job Possibilities - career aptitude test
- Asking for Help When Needed--dialog practice
- Reading Abbreviations - used in employment ads
- Understanding Quantity Relationships
- Ratios
- Understanding Optical Illusions
- Exploring Situation-Appropriate Speech/Actions -- Social story links can be good jumping off places to discuss: wedding, wake, job interview, lunch at work, going to DMV,
- Reading Charts, Tables, and Graphs
- Calculating Quantities- how much paint?
- Understanding Sports Statistics-Advanced Baseball Box Score
- Scoring Sports
- Getting Enough Sleep
What Did We Learn Today?
