Safety & Person-Centered Focus
Monday, August , 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! August is a new month and it's time for a new theme! For the next four weeks we'll be learning about CONTRIBUTING with JOY!
Once again some of the activities online will be included 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
The number words come up in this exercise in news broadcasts. Work through the sheet together.
Show & Share
Since today we are starting a new monthly theme, share a memory with us. Take a minute and think about your past. When did you give someone something that made you feel joyful when you gave it? STAFF, you too. Share your moments of joyful giving. What was it about giving that thing that made you feel so good?
Tomorrow's show and share will be about something you accomplished with a group of other people. Did you build something? Support a charity event? Have a big party? Start a club or organization? Raise awareness about an issue that is important to you? Get a difficult job or challenging project done at work? Introduce a new idea or opportunity to others?
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Life Skills Story 3: In this story a group of friends go skiing and one young person gets a lead on a job. Read the story either all at once or half today and the rest tomorrow.
PRESENTERS: Read aloud with your group, or have some readers help. When reading aloud exaggerate tone and emotion somewhat to increase engagement.
Stop reading a few times to prompt participants to VISUALIZE what the words describe. This is an important part of learning to read well which is often challenging and rarely taught adequately in public schools.
There is an arrow at the bottom of the story page that will bring you back to this curriculum guide.
Discussion
Go over the What do you think? and What would you do? questions as appropriate to what you read. Tomorrow you can do the story quiz to check how much you remember.
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Looking Good!
Very often we overlook a very important part of grooming that during Covid-19 is even more important because it can affect our health.
Together review this *procedure card for cleaning our fingernails.
- How is cleaning our nails different from just washing our hands?
- What can get trapped under our nails that could be bad for our health?
- We often use our nails to pick things like labels off of surfaces. What else might we pick, when no one is watching, that could put us at risk of getting viruses or germs into our bodies?
- What habit do some of us have that can create another health risk from our fingernails?
Manicure for Anyone
Manicures are like supercleaning your nails. This is a list of steps for giving yourself a manicure at home.
What Did We Learn Today?
Community & Civic Education
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! Remember our theme! Contributing with JOY! Today we'll discuss fairness when contributing to group activities.
High Priority Vocabulary
For book lovers AND number enthusiasts
Show & Share
So what did you accomplished with a group of other people that you'd like us to know about?
Did you build something? Support a charity event? Have a big party? Start a club or organization? Raise awareness about an issue that is important to you? Get a difficult job or challenging project done at work? Introduce a new idea or opportunity to others?
Tomorrow's Show & Share will be to share your keepsake or anchoring object for joy. An anchoring object is usually small and symbolic, like a stuffed animal, a piece of jewelry, a post-card, anything really, that powerfully reminds you of something that's important to you. So what object is a powerful reminder of joy for you?
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PRESENTERS: If you didn't read the whole story through Monday, finish up today. Otherwise, prompt participants to do a recap before tackling the quiz.
Review these questions to see how much of the story you remember and understand.
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Dining Out
Take a look at this *planning worksheet for visiting a restaurant. The left side is about your order. The right side is about the whole experience of eating in a restaurant. To enjoy eating out, it helps to know what to expect in both of these areas.
PRESENTERS: Go over the menu side, then do the questions below. Look at the Denny's menu together and discuss first and second choices. Review the whole experience side of the link after people understand the idea of a "backup" choice when ordering.
- Why is there a second choice in the order options?
- Is dessert ALWAYS part of every meal?
- Are the main dish and side dish always separated or do they sometimes come together?
Practice with a Real Menu -- here is the menu at Denny's restaurant. Discus it together. How would you choose items to put on the planning sheet? What SECOND choices would be OK?
Now go back and check the rest of the process for eating out. Which items seem difficult or confusing? Does it seem like the experience you have had when eating out?
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Safety at the Table
A dining table can have a lot of potential safety hazards. Read the preventive tips below and decide what kinds of accidents or injuries they would help prevent.
- Eat slowly and swallow each bite before taking the next
- Keep glasses and cups away from the edge of the table
- Ask people to pass items that are out of reach
- Place your purses, coats, bags or other items in a visible place that is not under anyone's feet
- When pouring from a pitcher or bottle use both hands
- Quickly touch the side of plates or serving dishes before picking them up to pass or move
- Put a napkin over your mouth and turn your face away from the table if you need to cough or sneeze
What other safety tips can you contribute about dining in a restaurant, or at home?
What did we learn today?
Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello!
High Priority Vocabulary
This is a crossword puzzle using number words.
Show & Share
Please show us your keepsake or anchoring object for joy. How long have you had it? How did you get it? How does it help you remember joyful feelings? Have you ever lost it? How do you keep it safe?
Tomorrow's Show & Share will be a silly face. Be sure to practice in the mirror tonight. One of the best ways to contribute, especially in hard times like now, is to be funny and make one another laugh. So tomorrow the challenge is to show everyone your silly-billyest, goofyest, most ridiculous funny face.
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Below are 3 interesting exercises or topics that relate to the story that relate to the story. You can choose one or more to explore.
Discussion Questions
Counting by Skipping: together, count to 30 by 2s and to 100 by 5s, and 10s.
Recognizing Area Types: Work together to give an example of each area type.
Area Types
- rural
- urban
- inner city
- suburban
- small town
- large town
- small city
- large city
Which areas are places you have lived?
What were the communities in those places like?
Considering Weather When Packing
- How you would pack differently for a trip to a ski resort and a trip to the beach?
- What other destinations can you think of that would require thoughtful packing?
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Splitting the Bill in a Restaurant
On Tuesday you may have discussed eating out. Watch this video about contributing to the bill in a restaurant. For contributing to feel good and be joyful we need to feel it's fair and appreciated.
- In your opinion, which is more fair, splitting the bill evenly or each person paying for what they eat?
- If you are invited to a restaurant to celebrate a friend's birthday, should you help pay for the birthday person's dinner?
- If you are the person who gets the bill last, and people didn't put in enough, what can you say and to whom?
Health Advocacy
Sometimes we eat or avoid foods because we like or dislike them. Other times our eating choices are for other reasons. These actvities will help you recognize the different ways you choose foods.
*Look at the pictures: which foods do you LIKE?
*Now look again: Which foods do you DISLIKE?
*This CROSSWORD puzzle is about the reasons we eat certain foods. There are so many.
EXTRA: Host or Guest?
When you INVITE someone to eat out with you as your GUEST, the expectation is that you will pay for the table. You are the HOST. Sometimes servers give the bill to the wrong person because of a mistaken assumption. These assumptions are usually about age, ability, gender or appearance. In each party below, discuss why the server may not realize who is really the host.
- A brother and sister dress up to take their mother out to a fancy lunch. The sister is paying because the brother just lost his job, but the server gave the check to the brother.
- A young woman who uses a wheelchair is taking her father out for dinner on his birthday. The server gives the check to the dad.
- A family of 4 is celebrating because their oldest daughter just won a lotto scratcher and got $2000. The server gave the bill to the mom.
- A deaf salesperson who signs takes his new client out for lunch. The server gives the check to the client instead of the salesperson
What Did We Learn Today?
Self-Advocacy, Rights & Responsibilities
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello!
High Priority Vocabulary--*Number words
Optional craft project! Cut out the shape on the sheet then fold on all the lines and use glue or tape to make two (2) dice.
Here is a set of pictures showing how
Show & Share
OK! Challenge issued! Show everyone your silly-jillyest, goofyest, most ridiculous funny face. Take turns so everyone can see and keep it going long enough so no one misses it. You can add sound effects if that helps make if funnier.
Tomorrow's Show & Share is to bring a tool. Bring any tool that you use to contribute to something you are a part of. Is it a tool you use for work? An appliance for a house keeping task? A tool you use to do your hobby or make things that you share with others? A tool that helps with differability? A tool for organizing or remembering or communicating?
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Life Skills to Remember
We need to use our self-advocacy skills even in positive situations so that we can live our best life. When someone says they might be able to get us a job it's important to follow up and see if we can get the job.
- Why is that self-advocacy?
- What makes it hard or scary to follow up on a job lead?
- How can we gain the confidence or skills to follow up on job leads?
- Is it possible to OVER advocate for ourselves and annoy people so that they don't want to help us any more?
- When a contact tells us we have to wait for an answer, or they don't get back to us quickly, how many times should we ask again?
Life Skills Questions
Below are 5 life skills questions from the story. See how you would answer them. (answers at the bottom of the page).
1. Which area type best describes where the people in the story were spending spring break?
A. inner city
B. urban valley
C. rural mountains
D. suburban desert
2. Think about the weather at a ski resort. Which of these items would you least likely need to pack for a trip to a ski
resort?
A. socks
B. shorts
C. bathing suit
D. gloves
3. Which choice is the least important part of a typical phone message?
A. name of caller
B. which phone the call came in on
C. reason the person was calling
D. phone number
4. Which comment is an example of good sportsmanship when spoken by a person who won?
A. Glad you all got the chance to play with me!
B. You played a good game!
C. I knew from the very beginning that I was going to win today.
D. I guess I’m the star today.
5. Since Carol said she might have some summer jobs, Tess should
A. call Carol in one week.
B. wait for Carol to call her.
C. go to the company in one week and ask to see Carol.
D. call around to some other companies to find other jobs.
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Contributing in the Kitchen
Look at the picture of this week's recipe
Now the recipe itself--pg1, pg2
Soup is a good way to contribute to your household in the kitchen because
- You can feed a lot of people so a big family can dig in--WHAT are good foods that go with soup?
- Vegetable soup is very inexpensive--a lot is cheap. WHICH ingredient in the recipe is filling even though it's cheap?
- Soup leftovers taste really good so even if you live alone, you can make a big pot of soup and eat it all week long-- less cooking, more health
- Soup uses up leftovers, especially vegetable soup, so if you have stuff that might go bad soon, you can just pop it in your soup--WHAT leftover vegetables are in your house right now?
- Soup fills the house with a wonderful smell which gives us a good, happy feeling. WHAT other yummy smells make you house joyful?
What Did We Learn Today?
Answers to Life Skills Questions
- c
- b & c
- b
- b
- a
Knowledge & Fun With Friends
Friday, July 24, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello! High Priority Vocabulary--*Number words
This is a WORD SEARCH!! You can do a shared screen or show your work to the camera if you have your printout at home.
Show & Share
Let's see those tools! Where do you use them? Who benefits from them? How long have you known how to do what you do with them? Who taught you to do it? How do you care for it? Is it a tool you can demonstrate how to use?
Next week Show & Share will focus on emergency supplies and knowing what to do in a crisis. When emergencies happen, it really helps if everyone is prepared and can do their part correctly.
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*Activity Sheet--Packing for weather
Look over the activity sheet. Check out this map of the US to be sure you know these locations.
Here are some weather patterns for those places in January.
- Vermont
- Georgia
- South Texas
- go back and check a state you would like to visit
Fill out the activity sheet as a team. Notice how the time of year and location makes you think about the weather.
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This web page is like a fun click and learn activity. You read the state it is asking for and try to guess which flag is that state's flag.
Bragging VS Confidence
In this week's Life Skills Story we saw Todd brag about winning. But there are a lot of people who tell us to be confident, be proud of ourselves.
How can we have self-confidence without bragging?
- Confidence doesn't exaggerate. It just tells the FACTS.
- Bragging often tries to make others feel small.
- Confidence can give credit to others.
- Bragging ALWAYS has to use the "superlative" that means words like "best," "greatest," "biggest."
- Confidence only uses superlatives if there is evidence that those are the truth, like someone else said it.
- Bragging is just about the braggart.
- Confidence can be proud of other people too.
Use this wheel to practice telling the difference.
PRESENTERS: spin the wheel and read the sentence aloud. If it is a bragging sentence, read it that way. If it's a confident sentence say it that way. And if it can be either, talk about that. Just do as many as your group wants to.
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Scattegories Online with a Twist!
- Assign each player a number from 1-12 (fewer is OK.)
- Remember your number because that will be your turn.
- Go to this website: Scattegories
- Read the big letter and make sure everyone knows that the words they think of have to start with that letter.
- Click the Play button
- PRESENTER reads the categories in number order one at a time.
- The player with that number says a word for that category that starts with the letter. If they can't think of one in 12 seconds they are out.
- Keep playing until just one person is left. Or Not. Your choice.
Weekend Plans
Let's talk about our weekend plans. What you got going on? What are you looking forward to?
What Did We Learn This Week?
