Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Wednesday! Did you know that the word Wednesday comes from Old English and Norse? It was called "Woden's Day" (Day of Mercury in Latin.)
High Priority Vocabulary
Tackle this worksheet *Months in the News to practice connecting the NAME of a month with the NUMBER of a month. For each headline, write the number of the month named in the box next to it.
PRESENTERS: Read the headlines together on the shared screen and let participants who can, complete the prompt on their sheet at home. After those working at home have had a chance to write in a number, review together in shared screen and annotate the correct number. The text tool can add a clear number into the square.
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Show & Share
Have you volunteered at an animal shelter? Your local ASPCA? Did you participate in 4H Club? Ever pet sit? Share your experiences or memories that these animals brought joy to your life.
Looks like this friendly dog is cat sitting... sort of.
Tomorrow's Show & Share is about the routines and habits pets and their owners get into and how those routines help or create challenges.
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<Body Break>
Life Skills Story 5: 15 = Fun X's 3
*Life Skills Stories Questions
These questions fit perfectly with our calendar words this week. Go over the questions and do some or all.
(Answers provided at the bottom of page)
PRESENTERS: Remember you can CLICK on the document (mouse turns into a magnifier) to enlarge the text on the page.
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Thematic Connection: Health Advocacy
*Junk Food VS Food Food Matching
PRESENTERS: Share screen and ***click the "PRESENT" button on the TOP RIGHT of the slide in order for the animations to work*** Ask learners if a food is Good or Junk in the numbered order. Click the screen after everyone chooses. The gray square for that food will disappear and reveal it in the grids.
Those who have the sheets at home can cut up the squares of food items, or follow along with the digital activity.
Body Love
This week's show and shares are all about pets. But if you think about it, your body is kind of like a pet too. You have to
- feed your body,
- give it rest,
- take it out for exercise,
- make sure it gets some sunshine,
- keep it clean,
- never hurt it on purpose,
- never give it poisons,
- take it to the doctor when it's sick,
- and give it attention and love.
In a lot of ways your body is as loyal as a great pet too. It always tries to do what your brain is telling it to do, even when it's very hard.
Let's take a minute and think about how loyal and hard working our good bodies are, even when we make them stay up late, feed them stuff that makes them uncomfortable, or force them to put up with a lot of extra stress.
What is your body's favorite physical activity? What is your body's favorite napping spot? What is your body's favorite nature spot?
Take your Body Break with this song!
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More About Healthful Food
WHOLE foods are healthful foods. PROCESSED foods are hard on your body and make you sick when you get older. Let's learn to tell them apart. Look at these two posters. Notice that each processed food has a WHOLE version of it that is better for you.
PRESENTERS: Remember when you share an image CTRL and + to zoom bigger and CTRL and 0 to make it regular sized-or if you see the magnifier mouse, just click to grow.
How do we tell them apart? Notice that
WHOLE food
- is grown and sold the way it grows
- can spoil or go bad in a short time
- has no added sugars, colors, or preservative chemicals
- has flavors and scents you recognise besides just sweet or salty-like cucumber or banana
- has vibrant color, scent, flavor
- each one is unique, like all living things
- needs to be prepared
PROCESSED food
- doesn't grow anywhere—is made in factories
- has a lot of packaging
- each one is exactly like all the rest
- sweet, salty or tangy are the main flavors
- can last a very long time
- has a lot of ingredients, fake flavorings and chemicals
- no need to prepare
DISCUSSION
How can we balance our love of
What Did We Learn Today?
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Life Skills Answers:
Set 1 answers: 1.A, 2.C, 3.D, 4.C, 5.C, 6.D
Today's picture was provided by Ella Valentine on Flickr CC license
