Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Check-In with everyone
Hello everyone. Bet you never saw a food fight like this one! In the following match ups which food would win?
Broccoli vs Oreo Cookie
Hershey's Kiss vs Garlic cloves
Mango vs Vanilla Cone
*High Priority Vocabulary handout
Today there are 3 steps for each item. THREE!! That's a lot of steps.
PRESENTERS: Share screen and DO NOT READ INSTRUCTIONS ALOUD for as long as possible. Give time for readers AND nonreaders to read or recognize the direction words.
Reading/recognizing the words and responding correctly is the objective. The activity is meaningless if you read the instructions aloud for everyone too soon.
OPTIONAL TEACHING SKILLS CHALLENGE! lead this activity without you yourself saying anything.
Validate that they have read it correctly and repeat for any pre-readers. Then give time for people to take action.
Either have individuals show the camera how they are doing the steps, or use this slide deck to show the outcomes of the directions. Remember to use "present" button to fill the screen.
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Show & Share—Borrowing Money
- Have you ever borrowed money from anyone and paid it back?
- Have you ever lent anyone money?
- Does anyone have a credit card?
- How is a credit card different from money?
- Has anyone ever used layaway?
- Have you ever borrowed for something big like a car or your education?
Tomorrow's Show & Share will be about your financial rights. Do you know what rights you have when it comes to your money? Do you know what a conservator is? What rights do you think you SHOULD have when it comes to money?
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<Body Break> Make your body happy
Life Skills Stories
For this week's discussion questions you can use a random picker for which questions to talk about.
OR you can scan them yourselves and decide which ones interest your group.
Go to this online dice and CHANGE THE NUMBER OF SIDES ON THE DICE TO 12 because that's how many questions you have to choose from.
(can you pronounce the name of the shape for a 12-sided die?)
Then roll the die and use these links to find the discussion question. Choose at least 3 questions to discuss.
PRESENTERS: Review the activities below and put them in the order that words for your group. Feel free to make them more complex or slow them down to meet the needs in your group.
<Body Break> Make your body happy
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Thematic Connection: Ordering Healthful Food
Did you know that restaurants cook food differently than we cook at home? Restaurant chefs use A LOT more salt, sugar and oil in their cooking. Many restaurants also soak their vegetables and fruits in chemicals called SULFIDES which make the fresh items look fresh many days longer than they would in your fridge at home. Some people are allergic to sulfides.
On the other hand, eating in a restaurant is usually a special occasion. Richer, saltier, sweeter food tastes DELICIOUS and if we don't eat it all the time, it's OK to enjoy it for special times.
So, to include restaurant foods in our diet and still be good to our bodies we have a few choices to consider.
Choice 1: What's the Occasion?
This spinner has 20 events on it. Spin it and vote in your group on whether it's a special occasion where eating something rich or fattening would be appropriate, or if it's an ordinary event that doesn't really require special food.
PRESENTERS: Spin the survey wheel and take the vote. If the same occasion repeats on a spin, spin to get a different result. Try for 5 different events to vote on. The goal is for participants to differentiate things that merit special food from ordinary things.
Choice 2: What's Healthful to Order?
Review the *Ordering Healthy Meals handout together and discuss what are considered healthful choices in restaurants.
<Body Break> Make your body happy
Choice 3: Special Requests
We know that restaurants cook things in less healthy ways so sometimes we can make special requests to improve the quality of our restaurant meal. But if we're not used to doing it, it's a good idea to practice.
This is a sample dialog for ordering an entree in a restaurant. Listen to it and answer the following questions together.
- Did the customer order a healthy choice?
- How would you find out if the noodles are fried in oil?
- How would you make sure your salad doesn't have too much dressing?
- How would you find out how the mushroom burger is cooked?
PRESENTERS: You can change your zoom audio settings to "system sounds" so the audio will work better in the meeting.
Building the Perfect Salad
PRESENTERS: The take home packet included a set of produce cards that can be used to build a paper representation of a sald. Have those who can, cut it apart.
If you have the pictures of vegetables and fruit, cut them apart. Choose the cards that represent your choices for vegetables and fruits you like in salad. Show everyone your "card salad" and tell us what dressing you'd prefer.
PRESENTERS: Use the *Salad Worksheet to further explore the salads people created and check knowledge. Use the questions that make sense for the way your group is working.
What Did We Learn Today?
