January 25th - January 29th
Theme: Wrapping Up January 2021
Skill Building: Using Our Portfolio Planners
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday
January 27th, 2021
Photo by Guilia Gasperin from Unsplash
Today is: International Holocaust Rememberance Day
United States Holocaust Memorial - Rememberance Day
"The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides."
-United State Holocaust Memorial
Check In — (5 min)
Show & Share (5-10 min)
We often feel stressed out when we don't have control or information about how our time will be spent. Can you share a time when you felt stressed out because someone else was deciding everything and you didn't have a say? How can we advocate to get a say in how our time is used?
Tomorrow‘s Show & Share
Planning things we want to do for others. Can you remember a great surprise, gift or outing that you planned for someone else to express your appreciation? When did someone surprise you with something that took a lot of planning?
Life Skills Stories (10-15 mins)
Read this life skills story together and discuss the questions at the end.
- Is your planner a good place to set up your exercise routine?
- Do you know people who have a regular working out schedule?
- What are real reasons to skip exercise?
- What are just excuses?
Body Break (5 min) MOVE IT DRINK IT ROCK IT move that booty!
Thematic Activity 02: Planning For Health Challenges (10-15 min)
Challenges to health are usually conditions we have like allergies, asthma or diabetes. These are things that don't really ever go away. Doctors call this a "chronic" condition. (If people want to share conditions they find challenging that's fine but only talk about your own, not someone else's)
If you happen to have a chronic condition you can manage it best by being a smart planner. If you don't have such a condition there is probably someone in your life who does and it helps to understand what they need to manage it.
See if you can identify the things that require planning for a chronic condition.
Presenter Note: Use the PRESENT button in the upper right to make the slides fill the screen. ESC key will close presenter view.
People with chronic conditions also need to think about their schedules a lot. They often have more doctor visits and pharmacy errands than others and can't always participate in everything they would like to. For each condition, can you name something that person should probably avoid?
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Chlorine allergy
- Pet allergy
- Narcolepsy-a disorder that causes one to fall asleep suddenly in the middle of doing things
<Body Break - let it be, make it free>
Covid Mitigation Moment (5 Minutes)
We have spent a lot of time on ways to keep COVID-19 contained. It's more important than ever to review simple ways we can all help with battling Covid. This is a potentially serious illness and many people have died of it. It is our community duty to do everything we can to protect one another.
Social Distancing
Want to know two easy ways to protect yourself and those around you? Practicing social distancing and wear a cloth face covering when around others.
Skill Builder Activity (5-10 min)
Changing Plans At the Last Minute
Sometimes we need to change our plans. There are polite ways to do this. This conversation is meant to help people learning English to change plans with someone politely.
- Do you agree with what the teacher is teaching?
- Practice the requests and come up with some of your own.
- What are examples of impolite ways to change plans?
- Is it ever polite to just skip out on a plan and not communicate with the other person?
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What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
