Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Check In (3-5 min) 

Remind everyone of the themes for the week: Food and Giving in non-material Ways 

Short recap of yesterday: Farming in California, soil and water resources, non-material resources compared to material resources for helping communities 

Show and Share 

Your recipe, food dish, drink, or costume or had that celebrates food from your culture or special occasion foods you really love.  

Next Week’s show and share is your favorite self-care treatment. Do you have a sleep mask? A meditation tape? A yoga mat? A cozy bathrobe? A facial treatment? Manicure supplies? What do you do to make yourself feel pampered and special?  

Covid-19 Exposure Mitigation Moment (5 min)

Use this recording to follow the chant. Say it like you're in the army. (staff are not to make fun of Tahiya for this...) 

Call and response chant for Covid 

I don’t know how long we’ll be 

Stuck at home in quarantine 

We gotta work together work together work together 

We gotta kick corona kick corona kick corona  

Covid’s out there playing games 

I’ll stay distant, well and sane 

We gotta help each other help each other help each other 

We gotta kick corona kick corona kick corona 

Wash my hands and sanitize 

Keeping clear of crowds is wise 

We gotta keep it level keep it level keep it level 

We’re gonna kick corona kick corona kick corona 

To keep you safe I’ll wear my mask 

You wear yours. Don’t make me ask 

Who’s gonna kick corona? 

We ARE! 

Who’s gonna keep it level?  

We ARE! 

Who’s gonna help each other? 

We ARE! 

Who’s gonna work together? 

We ARE! 

YES WE ARE! 

Thematic Activity (10-15 min) 

Look at these slides about organic farming 

The slides should make you wonder what the Clean 15 and Dirty Dozen are... 

PRESENTERS: See if learners will retrieve learning they did yesterday to show they know some of this content already.

Here is a great graphic of produce. Use it with the worksheet to identify which things we should try to get organic if possible, and which are OK to buy conventionally farmed (so long as we wash them well)

Use the *Clean Fifteen/DirtyDozen worksheet to identify the produce items you should buy organic if possible and those which can be safely eaten conventionally farmed  

Watch this video to understand how organic farming is different and how it needs community support.

1. Does organic food look different? 
2. Will you buy food that doesn’t look perfect if you know it’s safe to eat? 

OPTIONAL LEVEL UP (3-4 min) 

Look on google maps for farms in the bay area near you that offer organic produce or naturally produced animal products like meat, cheese, or eggs 

Skill Builder Activity 01 CHOICE:  (10-15 min) 

Option 1: Gift of performance 

Decide in your group if, in December, you would like to give a performance gift to a group in a sister district, or in your own. 

You can choose a holiday song, a short play, a game to present, or a small social gathering to have with a group in another district or in your own.  

Here are some holiday songs and plays you can use for inspiration—or write your own  

Holiday Song Lyrics 

Holiday Song Karaoke type practice video

(once you know the song, try to sing it without the video or recording)

Holiday Skits

Do some planning on how to rehearse, if people will take parts, or if you want to add special effects like zoom backgrounds or costumes... 

Option 2: Gift of Thanks 

Review the information on our essential workers in health care 

More info about who to thank

Work together to think of messages of thanks and inspiration 

You can use this link to ask Hallmark to send some free cards for you use  

You can work with your staff to create a recording of your zoom meeting and put it on YouTube But make sure everyone in the video is allowed to be on camera in public and is OK with posting the video.  

You can create a paper card with a message on it and post a picture to instagram if you have an account.  

What have we learned today?

What are we doing this afternoon?