Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Good morning! Let's see who is an early riser and who prefers a later start.
High Priority Vocabulary
Take a look at our *Calendar Words today. Sorting the months into their correct seasons! You can do the sheet you got in your packet along with the
group.
Level UP Challenge: Sort the months again, but this time for the Southern Hemisphere. The seasons are on an opposite schedule in the Southern half of the globe. Use this link to learn about the seasons in both hemispheres
PRESENTERS: Zoom in by clicking the magnifier icon or CTRL and the + key.
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Show & Share
You have told us about your contributions to community. AWESOME. One more contribution we make is to appreciate the contributions of others. Can you tell the group about a person you either know, or have learned about, who contributes to your community? What makes you notice their work?
Tomorrow's Show & Share is about how we can learn about and get involved in a new community when we move or have other life changes.
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Life Skills Discussion Prompts
Choose 1 or more life skill to discuss or take action on from these.
PRESENTERS: Annotation is helpful. Participants have these prompts on the Wednesday page in the home packet.
Making a Regular Exercise Plan
Using this copy of a calendar page for this month, show exercise you have completed and/or plan to do.
Using a Planner
Make a list of activities that would make sense to write in a planner. Include activities from all parts of your life, such as personal, work, and school.
PRESENTERS: White board could work if you choose this one.
Scheduling Errands
Create a one-week calendar page. Working around your program requirements to include these tasks.
- schedule a hair cut
- a trip to a store to return a pair of shoes
- a stop at the grocery store to get brownie mix
- and a run over to a friend’s house to say hi.
Recognizing and Accepting Authority
In this story, which people are authority figures for Todd?
Being Honest
By not telling his mother about his exercise activities, do you think Todd was being
secretive? Is being secretive the same as dishonest?
Using Community Resources
List the community resources involved in this story.
Respecting People with Physical/Mental Challenges
Todd said, “I can’t let Kyle sit in a wheel chair and play better than me!” Does he mean that he respects Kyle’s playing ability and he will have to try hard to win? Or does he think the wheelchair automatically means he will beat Kyle?
<Body Break> Move around!
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Thematic Connection: Assessing Produce
Speed Round Word Search
How many of the hidden words can you find *in this word search in 4 minutes or fewer?
**TIP** Assign each person just one word to find and divide the work. You can use your home packet printout or help annotate the screen.
PRESENTERS: Share the screen to allow annotation then watch the clock. See how far they get without help. Then compare to the answers in this link.
Drawing OR Describing
For typically sighted people: Use the *printed sheet in your packet or a blank sheet of paper and draw a picture of your favorite vegetable (or fruit).
For low vision people: Use a vegetable or fruit you have at home and hold it, then describe to the group how you recognize it.
For everyone: What details do you notice about vegetables or fruit? What details tell you if produce is fresh or old? What might you see if produce is going bad? What senses besides vision are necessary to choose fresh produce?
PRESENTERS: Get across the idea that touch, smell and weight and even sound (melons, cucumbers) can be important ways we judge produce. Our eyes don't tell us everything.
Casually a Fruit
First identify all the fruit *in this sheet. You can do it in a time limit to make it harder.
LEVEL UP CHALLENGE--Officially a Fruit:
There are all kinds of food that we think of as vegetables that are actually a fruit. Can you guess which items in the worksheet you just did are usually CONSIDERED vegetables, but scientists call them fruit? Compare your guesses to this list.
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<Body Break> Move it friends.
What Did We Learn Today?
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