Transition Week 5/30-6/2
Theme: Pets — Skill Building: Loving Care
Well Being & Social Connection
Wednesday, May 31st, 2023
Check out the National Day
PRESENTERS: If you, or your group, have a phobia or sensitivity to certain images of some kinds of animals (reptiles, amphibians, insects or birds) preview the image links and figure out which ones feel OK to bring up.
Check In (2-3 min)
Remind everyone of the themes for the week: Pets and Loving Care
Short recap of yesterday: costs of pet care, community gardens, tubers vs seeds
Happens to be… Pets Day – bring your pet or dress up like one or bring a stuffed animal
Thematic Activity 01 (5-12 min)
Look at this info about mammals and non-mammals.
Pets are often mammals but many people have non-mammalian pets. This article shows Non-mammal animals that are CUTE!
Poster of the mammal and non-mammalian animal groups.
PRESENTERS: you can enlarge the graphic with the CTRL and "+" keyboard combination.
Choose 1 or more of these prompts to kick off a discussion about mammalian and non-mammalian pets.
- Pets WITH fur are better because...
- Pets WITHOUT fur are better because...
- Pets with special habitats can be...
- Snakes and lizards are...
- Birds can be...
- I would NOT like a _____________ for a pet.
- I WOULD like a _________________ for a pet.
Show and Share
Your actual pet or pet costume that you or your pet has worn.
Tomorrow’s Show and Share is about why is training important for both pets and people. What tricks have you trained, or would like ot train, your pet to do?
<BODY BREAK> (5 min)
Using Imagination (5-10 min)(OPTIONAL as time allows)
Imagine that aliens from another planet came here and they wanted us to be their pets. How would you want them to care for us?
- What would we get to eat?
- What kind of habitat should they give us?
- How will they get us to exercise?
- How will they keep us from getting sad or bored?
Draw a picture of the ideal “habitat” that you would want your alien owners to build for you
Skill Building Activity 01 (15-20 min)
- Review the relationship map from Monday
- Choose people in your map to whom you want to give holiday gifts
- Read any of these stories about gifts of loving care.
- Talk about the stories you chose. Did you think about how gifts can show loving care?
- Who from your list of gift recipients would appreciate a hand-made gift? It can be more than one person.
- Review this resource on hand-made gifts. Do any of these ideas fit with the people you identified in your list?
- What are your own ideas for things to make?
More Stories About Thoughtful Gifts--though some are purchased objects (Optional as time allows)
<Body Break> (5 min)
Skill Building Activity 02 (10-15 min)
Loving Care of Each Other's Health
- Review the resource on healthful gift ideas
- Would you want healthful gifts?
- Why or why not?
- Do the *worksheet on healthful and unhealthful gifts we can give and their costs PRESENTERS: Have your group estimate the costs of some of the items, then look them up to see how accurate their guesses were
- Which of the healthful gifts can you afford?
- Would you want to give these to anyone in your list?
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
