Wednesday December 16, 2020

Well Being and Social Connection   

Check In (3-5 min)

Theme of the week and Skill Builder 

Today’s focus is winter in other cultures 

Recap yesterday’s topics 

Show & Share (5-10 min)

Sharing memories of snow. Have you lived in a place that gets snow? Have you been to the snow with family or friends? What are your favorite memories of snow? Do you like it or dislike it? Why or why not? 

Tomorrow‘s Show & Share 

Favorite cold weather meals. What is your favorite thing to eat when the weather is so cold? Do you make it yourself or does someone else make it? Is it  home-made or store-bought? What are the features of it? Is it rich or salty or sweet? 

Covid Mitigation Moment (5 min)

If you go into a public space they will ask you questions at the door before they take your temperature. It's a good idea to be ready to answer. 

Below are the common screening questions.

PRESENTERS: We will put these questions into the next few days curriculum so just work on one question at a time and help people who have low expressive language or English to come up with a strategy for answering. 

1. Do you have any of the following symptoms?

• Fever
• Cough
• Shortness of breath
• Muscle pains
• Loss of taste or smell
• Runny nose or congestion
• Sore throat
• Diarrhea
• Fatigue
• Headaches
• Nausea
• Vomiting

2. Do any members of your household have any of the above symptoms?

3. Have you traveled recently?

4. Have you been in contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past two weeks?

5. Are you or a family member awaiting COVID-19 test results?

Thematic Activity 01 (10-15 min)

Winter holidays around the world. 

Choose one or two items below that seem interesting. Learn and discuss.

•  The coldest place on earth (Siberia)
• Temperature converter from Celsius to Farenheit
• Snow and Disability: Nickole Sheron's Story PRESENTERS: Read just Nickole's Story
• * I Spy: Find the winter objects 
• Share screen and see if you can find all the instances of each object in the list. You can use the annotation tool or have your staff annotate for you. 

Optional Holiday Party practice (10 minutes) 

(optional Video of Tahiya explaining Virtual Rooms)

PRESENTERS: You can just demo if no one from your group is going to try it. Just DON'T ALLOW the Zoom meeting when the prompt pops up or you'll be prompted to leave your current space.. 

1. Go to the holiday version of our home page here.  (You can also get there by going to hopelearningservices.org)
2. Identify the tile for each district party space. on the page
3. Clicking a party page will take you out of the meeting we are in and into a new meeting space
4. If you are going, come back and tell your group what it was like
5. Remember you can come back to this meeting by click on the square of your district on the home page.

*Reader’s Option-Life Skills Discussion (10-15 min)

PRESENTERS: if your group is reading the story and doing the exercises, the link will go to ALL the documents for that package of work. Scroll down to find the sheet you are working on on a given day

Thematic Activity 02 (5-10)

Winter practices, foods, and stories from other places. Use any of the links to find out about things other people do. Share your own traditions with your group, or things you've learned from traveling. 

• Popular Winter Foods
• Popular Winter Activities PRESENTERS: This link is to a great tool for people with low expressive language, minimal English or pre-readers. Read the text aloud for them as it appears.
• Winter Solstice Traditions

Skill Builder (5-10 min) 

Super easy fast way to help you manage your mood. Try it!

Tapping for mood regulation 

*My Winter Self Care plan part 1 (printable) 

Review the self-care plan and see which items make sense to you. 

What did we learn today? 

What are we doing this afternoon?