Safety & Person-Centered Focus
Monday, July 27, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! July's theme is INDEPENDENCE! This week is all about Health and Self-Care
This week you will have some of the activities online in your paper packet that gets delivered to your house.
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.
High Priority Vocabulary--*Number words
Review these number words from last week.
Can you match the number on the *coupons to the correct words beneath?
Show & Share
This week's focus is HEALTH and WELLNESS because our independence is much greater when we feel healthy and strong.
So did you bring your workout gear or favorite exercise equipment? Tell us all about it, or demonstrate how it looks!
Here are some funny pictures of exercise clothes from other decades.
Fitness Celebrity Fashions 1940
By 2000's fitness fashion becomes regular clothes and everything goes!
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*Life Skills Story 2: A Stamp Told Me
Read this story as a group. It looks long but it has a lot of dialog (that means talking) so it will go fast.
Options
- Read the whole story through today either one person reading aloud to everyone, or taking turns reading aloud.
- Read it by taking parts, with different people reading different characters
- Read part of it today and continue through the week. The link to the story will be in all the days.
Discussion
Go over the What do you think? and What would you do? questions at the end.
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Looking Good! - Toileting
These are sequenced pictures of all the steps for using a private or public restroom, for both men and women. Start with handwashing since that is so important these days.
PRESENTERS: This is about using private and public bathrooms. The images are specific to men and women. Please prepare learners that this is information about how to care for our bodies so that we are clean, safe and healthy. Toileting is a private activity so when we discuss it we are respectful. No one should feel embarrassed to learn the information.
Art Activity--Making Emoticon Tents
- Find your emoticon sheet in your packet (if you can't find it you can still follow along)
- Cut the sheet along the cut line
- Fold on the fold lines
- Tape or staple the two ends together
- Now your emoticon can sit on your desk or you can hold it up to the camera to show your reaction.
What Did We Learn Today?
Community & Civic Education
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! July's theme is INDEPENDENCE! This week is all about health. Part of good health is keeping our homes clean and comfortable.
How Clean a Home Do You NEED?
We need to have our homes and other places clean so that we can stay healthy. If our environment gets too dirty, we can get sick. But just like everything else, different people are different on their needs for tidiness and cleanliness.
Tell us the level of cleanliness YOU need in your home to feel comfortable and stay healthy. Should it be
- ALWAYS spotless
- USUALLY clean but sometimes messy
- USUALLY messy then clean it about once a week or so
- MOSTLY messy and a little dirty, but not unhealthy,
- Kitchen counters and sink
- Bathroom fixtures ans surfaces
- Floors and carpets
- Bedrooms, offices, spare rooms
- Hallways, entries, stairs
- Common areas
- Garage
- Attice
- Basement
If your home ever gets SO messy and dirty it might be unhealthy it's time to ask for help cleaning up. Who would you ask? How would you explain what happened?
High Priority Vocab - Number Words
There are lots of tools in life that have the numbers written out. We need to be able to recognize the words that go with numbers.
*Cable TV Channels matching
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Show & Share - collections
In the story from yesterday we learned that stamp collecting is a hobby. Show and share your prized collection.
Tomorrow's Show & Share is your favorite healthful food. Show us your favorite good-for-you snack or a picture of your favorite nutritious meal. You can draw the picture yourself if you like making art.
*Life Skills Story: Discussion and Life Application
These *Life SKills Questions will help us apply the ideas in the story to our own lives and skills. If you received the printed worksheet, use it now.
PRESENTERS: The life skills questions can be more or less relevant depending on how you choose to read the story. If you are breaking it up over the week, be sure to give a recap of the parts you've read previously to help learners maintain the thread of the narrative.
These *Discussion Questions can help us get more out of the story for our own lives and skills. If you got the printed worksheet you can use it now.
PRESENTERS: These questions seem to direct people to collect some stamps, but you can speak hypothetically instead: "If you had a big bag of stamps..."
Choose, or INVENT, discussion prompts based on how you chose to read the story together and the items that interest learners.
EXTRA: Do you know the official name for someone who collects stamps? It's a funny sounding word: PHILATALIST
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Smart Shopper - Great Cook!
- What are these? (Image of recipe)
- Use the *recipe card to find the ingredients we'll need to buy
- Compare what the recipe card requires to these *item cards. Is everything we need shown?
- What information would we add to the ingredient cards to make sure we got the right stuff?
- Let's go online shopping and see if we can find some deals for our ingredients. Check these grocery store flyers to find out if anything we need is on sale. Raley's — Grocery Outlet OR look up your own favorite store's weekly ad.
Keeping House
Remember we talked earlier about keeping our home clean so we are healthy and comfortable? Look at this procedure card and see if you agree on these steps for cleaning the Living room.
Optional HOMEwork! (get it? that's a pun! ha ha)
Use the procedure card as a guide to clean your living room then show us a picture tomorrow of your nice space.
What did we learn today?
Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! July's theme is INDEPENDENCE!
High Priority Vocab - Writing Checks
Use your knoweldge of number words to complete *these checks correctly. If you got the printed packet you can write on your worksheet. If you are not a writer you can still learn about what goes on a check and where.
Show and Share Healthy Foods
So today we're talking health promoting foods, healthy life styles. What is your favorite nutritious snack or meal? Do you have one to show us? Or do you have a picture? What's healthful about this food? What do you like about it?
Tomorrow's Show & Share will be a demonstration. We want to learn how to stand up for our friends. If people are gossiping or saying mean things about your friend in front of you when your friend is not there, what can you do or say to show your disapproval?
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Chat about these topics based on what you like or applies to your life and knowledge.
PRESENTERS: Read the questions and choose among them. Some may lead to more discussion. Let the group take it where they naturally go.
Life Skills Discussion Questions
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Health Assessment
Let's get to know one another a little better.
PRESENTERS: Use this sheet to guide a discussion and help people learn more about one another
*Getting to Know You worksheet
This guide helps us know where we are starting out with our health. Let's agree on what the words "always," "sometimes," and "never" mean.
PRESENTERS: Review the items as a survey in the group. Teach participants how surveys are different from quizzes. There are no right or wrong answers because we are just learning about the reality of each person's lifestyle.
This guide is a lot like the fitness vision boards we discussed two weeks ago. But it's more personal.
PRESENTERS: Remind everyone that goals don't have to be IMPROVEMENTS or CORRECTIONS. We can have goals that are just maintenance or trying something new. AND we can have mental and emotional health goals too. Our bodies and minds TOGETHER make up our health.
Let's make it bigger!
Planet Earth is not so healthy lately. Our planet has gunk in the rivers and oceans, gunk in the air, and gunk in the soil. Human beings have been making Earth less healthy with things like plastic we throw away, food that is made of chemicals, and using gas and oil to get energy instead of solar, wind and other power sources.
When a person has gunk in their body, gunk in their environment, and gunk in their diet, fitness coaches and doctors recommend they change things.
If you were a fitness coach for planet Earth, what would you recommend to Earth to get her health back? How could WE help planet Earth to get her fitness back? What small habit change can you make today that will be good for the environment AND your health?
What Did We Learn Today?
Self-Advocacy, Rights & Responsibilities
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! July's theme is INDEPENDENCE! Today is about exercising our rights AND responsibilities in lots of areas: home, health, friendship...
High Priority Vocabulary
Choice of activities today. For those programs that sent out the Word Bingo cards, you can play. Here is the caller card for the person calling the squares.
If you don't have the bingo cards or don't feel like playing bingo or have other plans for different bingo, you can create a word cloud here.
PRESENTERS: Go to the word cloud page and have participants tell you the number words to type into the box. Ask them to spell them if they can. Then click "generate cloud" and see your word cloud.
Show & Share - standing up for friends
Have you ever heard people saying unpleasant things about someone who wasn't there to hear them? It's extra-mean gossip and even though we have all been guilty of it sometimes, we really shouldn't do it.
One way we can discourage it is by standing up for our friends when we hear this kind of stuff. Share what you might say or do to let gossips know you are not OK with that.
Now that we've heard some ideas, discuss one or more of following points about hearing gossip.
- We can tell people we don't like something without being mean about it.
- We don't always have to use words. Sometimes action is enough.
- Some gossip is just words that can be ignored.
- Some gossip is a threat or plan to hurt or bully someone and needs to be reported to an authority
- Sometimes we need to tell our friend, like if they are trusting someone they really shouldn't.
- Other times, telling them will only hurt their feelings. Like if someone didn't like their haircut or clothes.
- Would you want to know if people were gossiping about you?
Tomorrow's Show & Share is how our differences make us stronger. Tell us about your best friend or favorite relative. How are you DIFFERENT from that person? How does knowing them make your life richer?
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Story Quiz (answers at the bottom of the page)
PRESENTERS: Read the questions out and see if people remember the story particulars. Support recall by helping everyone VISUALIZE things in the story.Responsibilities at home
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Making Housework FUN
The ranger in Yogi's park got the bears to pick up trash by making it a song and dance.
Take a look at this procedure card for dumping out the trash cans and pick a good song for doing trash duty at your house. Anyone wanna show us YOUR trash dance? Staff included... (wink)
Responsibilities for OUR Health as a Community
Remember the health goals we talked about yesterday? Well health is both an individual RIGHT and GROUP responsibility. We have a right to things that support our INDIVIDUAL health and we have a responsibility to help each other stay healthy. Which of these is your individual right and which is a responsibility you have to your community?
- Access to a doctor and medicine
- Avoiding creating excess noise for long periods in your neighborhood
- Using less harmful garden supplies so animals and bees don't die
- Having adequate food to stay nourished
- Clean, drinkable water.
- Behaving peacefully and appropriately in public places
- Freedom from violence or abuse
- Keeping our pets healthy and well behaved
Dealing with Criticism from a Friend
In the Life Skills Story Mitch teased Todd about his hobby at first. Then Todd taught Mitch more about it and helped changed his attitude.
In strong friendships we have enough confidence to keep cool when someone offers feedback we may not want to hear. Do you agree with these tips? Why or why not?
- We know our friends love us, so if they are offering feedback, it may be important
- Is our friend trying to help? Sometimes advice or suggestions feel like criticism when the person didn't mean it that way.
- Is our friend teasing us, like Mitch was teasing Todd in the story? If so, can we laugh it off? Or do we need to tell our friend they are hurting our feelings?
- Does a friend criticise and only ever criticize? We might need to tell our friend that they are becoming more negative than we are used to them being.
- Should we try to teach our friend more about the thing they are bring critical of? That's what Todd did in the story.
What Did We Learn Today?
Knowledge & Fun With Friends
Friday, July 24, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! July's theme is INDEPENDENCE! You worked hard this week!!! GREAT JOB. Have a longer check in and discuss weekend plans. Summer is winding down. What do you want to get to before autumn rolls around?
High Priority Vocabulary review
PRESENTERS: OPTIONAL SUGGESTED game using annotation tool. Show the link in shared mode. Offer prompts like "find the number between 10 and 12" and have the participants make any kind of mark on the number they think is correct. Also prompt participants to marke the words for numbers rather than just the numbers.
Show & Share - Differences Are Great
Tell us about a person you care about who is very different from you. What are the differences? Did you know about those difference early on in the friendship? Or did you find out later? What have you learned from the ways the person is different from you? How do you think that person sees these difference?
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Expressing Differences
It's important to be able to say when see or think differently than the people around us, without feeling like we are breaking a rule or being rude. We don't have to agree to get along. We can be assertive without being aggressive. Aggressive communication creates negative feelings and upsets people.
There are lots of reasons that people learn to use aggressive communication. It takes practice to be ASSERTIVE instead.
Vote: Which of these statements is ASSERTIVE and which is AGGRESSIVE?
- You're wrong.
- I believe we can still go to the show.
- Never mind that. I'm telling how to solve the problem.
- In my opinion that was unnecessary.
- I hear that you feel anxious but I would really like to try again. What do you say?
- I hate this food. Why did we come here?
Here is a long list of ways (+page 2) to communicate your thoughts and differences respectfully. Choose 3 that you think will fit with the way you talk. Use these topics below, or choose your own, to practice saying what you think, even if it's different than everyone else.
- People should only eat cake on their birthday
- Bread is far better than crackers
- People with differabilities shouldn't live alone
- Trusting others is very difficult
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*Life Skills Story - friendship and shared interests
In the story Todd is making sets of different stamps and hoping to find the stamps missing from his sets.
Sets for collections often go in order, called a SEQUENCE. To figure out sequences we the examine the items we DO have so we can figure out what is missing. It's like being a detective.
This sequencing worksheet will give you a chance to practice your detecting skills. Each sequence is for a different set of things. Work together to fill it in. *Sequencing worksheet
Pursuing Interests Safely
Todd's hobby is one he can do alone. Many hobbies can be done with others. Some hobbies can only be done in groups.
Every few years you should explore possible new hobbies to try. It will make your life interesting and bring you into contact with people and ideas that open your world. Start by reviewing your own preferences. Brainstorm some answers for this Interests Grid to get an idea of what might appeal to you. Once you know your direction...
...take a look at this list of hobbies. It's SO LONG!!
- As a group, choose a few hobbies from the list
- Do some searches on how to get started with that hobby
- If you would need supplies, check some online stores like Blick Arts or a cooking tools shop
- Do you think you're ready to start a fresh new hobby? If not, make a note of what you've learned and refer to it later
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Teach us something you know that you like to share. It can be a fact, a skill, a tip, or a shortcut.
Have a great weekend. Next week we start some new activities. Look forward to a whole new series on health and fitness, great recipes to share, virtual shopping trips, and even some special event days on the calendar.
What Did We Learn Today?
