September 27–October 1, 2021
Theme: My Learning
Skill Building: Body Care Skills
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday September 27, 2021
Today happens to be...Ancestor Appreciation Day
Theme for the Month: My Learning
Skill for the Week: Body Care Skills
Hope Program Updates
Thematic Media
Thematic Activity
Review this medical aid decision tree for a college campus.
As a group, what kind of chart like this could you make for your Hope Program?
PRESENTERS: Use the Ctrl key and the + sign to enlarge the image to fit the screen. Ctrl and the - sign shrinks it back.
Body Break
Here's a channel that offers exercise music. Choose a groove and get creative with your body break.
Skills Media
A comic explanation of why to take care of your body
Skills Information
- Make a decision to be healthy.
- Take the steps to GET healthy and stay healthy
- Create a PLAN--write it down and put in basic goals with rewards and consequences
- Accountability partner! Someone who cares whether we do it or not.
If you could find the perfect accountability partner what traits or behaviors would they have?
Skills Applied
How much do you love and appreciate your body?
How yoga improves how your body feels.
What else do you do to take care of yourself?
How do you make sure you stay safe and well?
Covid prevention practices prevent a lot of other illnesses too. What other common things do people do to prevent getting sick or hurt?
What can you do to stay strong, flexible, balanced and comfortable in your body?
Here's a drawing of our INTERNAL systems that need care. What skills do you use to care for them?
With your group come up with a list of EXTERNAL body systems that need care, attention, or maintenance. What skills do they require?
Body Break--Choose the music and give the moves your own twist
Fun Stuff
Acrobats at Cirque du Soleil have amazing body care and body skills
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics & Community Awareness
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Today happens to be...Strawbery Cream Pie Day
Hope Program Updates
Theme: My Learning
Skills: Body Care
Thematic Media
Thematic Activity
Community Health Resources in YOUR town are part of public health solutions. How can you find support and resources in your community?
Do an online search for
- A health clinic in your town
- Counseling services in your town
- Food support for people who can't afford groceries
- Housing support for people who don't have a place to live
What did you discover?
Do you volunteer at any place that promotes public health?
What other community resources help us take care of our bodies?
Here's a channel that offers exercise music. Choose a groove and get creative with your body break.
Skills Media
Pollution is a threat to public health
Skills Information
Review this poster for fighting air pollution.
PRESENTERS: Ctrl and the + key will enlarge it in steps so it doesn't get too big.
Skills Applied
Reduce the effect of air pollution on your health
How many of these steps do you take?
Plants can clean the air in your home
Air-cleaning plants slide show
Do you have any of these in your house?
Here's a channel that offers exercise music. Choose a groove and get creative with your body break.
Fun Stuff
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Today happens to be...World Heart Day
Hope Program Updates
Thematic Media
Learning a new sport can be intimidating but it's worth it. Scan this article and see if you agree with what the writer says.
Thematic Activity
Here's a channel that offers exercise music. Choose a groove and get creative with your body break.
Skills Media
Physical skills related to fitness
Remember when we learned about contributing our strengths? What of these fitness skills do you think are your strengths? Which ones do you think could be improved?
Skills Information
What does coordination help us with?
What happens if we have poor coordination?
Can you have good coordination in some ways and less great coordination in other ways?
Fine motor coordination is for small things, like embroidery or drawing.
Gross motor coordination is for large things like kicking a ball or doing a sit up.
What are favorite fine and gross motor activities you like?
Skills Applied
Do these body awareness exercises as a group.
- have someone call them out randomly OR
- go through them as fast as you can OR
- do them super slowly OR
- start doing them and then hold position when someone says "freeze"
Here's a channel that offers exercise music. Choose a groove and get creative with your body break.
Fun Stuff
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Rights & Self Advocacy
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Today happens to be...Mudpack Day
Thematic Media
Self-Advocacy is a SKILL and here are 10 steps to help you identify the skills you should develop.
In your group discuss which skills you feel confident about and which skills you can practice to get better.
Thematic Activity
Review your bill of rights. In your group think of examples of each right.
Here's a channel that offers exercise music. Choose a groove and get creative with your body break.
Skills Media
Pronunciation is something you can do better with practice. Even if you are a native speaker of English, practicing tongue twisters can help build your speaking skills for any time you need to speak. If English is your second language, tongue twisters can help you be more comfortable saying English words and figuring out how to pronounce new words that you read.
Read the points on why tongue twisters are good for you.
Skills Applied
Here's a channel that offers exercise music. Choose a groove and get creative with your body break.
Fun Stuff
What did we learn today?
Sequence the day—Help the group review what you explored together today.
What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge & Fun
Friday, October 1, 2021
Today happens to be...Bunch of different stuff
Hope Program Updates
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Movie Time
Let’s watch Goldie, a short film about a giant girl.
After watching Goldie, share what you think about it. Who was your favorite character and why? When have you made mistakes like Goldie? Who appreciates you? Who helps you feel better when you’re feeling down?
Body Break
Let’s do some yoga today: Quick 2-Minute Yoga Flow from Mary Beth LaRue.
Music
What do you know about the banjo? Let’s watch Banjo Basics with Abigail Washburn.
Do you ever listen to lofi hip-hop music? It’s great for when you want to chill out or when you need to study. Here’s a video on YouTube with some lofi hip-hop music and a beautiful animation: Sleepy Fish - Everything Fades To Blue.
Presenters: Heads-up: the Sleepy Fish video is 30 minutes long. You’ll likely want to listen to just the first song or two and then move on.
Body Break
First, make sure you have enough space to stand, reach out your arms, and move around. Now, who here likes Zumba? Dance Fitness: Senorita by Shawn Mendes x Camila Cabello
Food
You may have heard of French crepes, but did you know that savory breakfast crepes are popular in China as well? They’re called jianbing. Here’s an article you can read about jianbing: “Why Jianbing is China's Most Popular Street Breakfast.” And here’s a video you can watch to see how a jianbing is made.
Language
Have you used Duolingo before? Duolingo is a free website that you can use to learn many different languages. If you want Duolingo to save your progress, you may have to make an account. However, you can try out and use Duolingo without making an account.
On Duolingo’s homepage, click “Get Started,” and when it asks “Want us to help you keep your daily goal?” select “Not now.” Try choosing a language some of you already know (like Spanish) and taking a placement test, or choosing a new language and starting fresh.
Presenters: If you are already signed in to a Duolingo account, open a private window in your web browser and then visit Duolingo. If you do that, you should be able to select “Get Started” and “Not now” and use Duolingo from scratch without making an account.
Moments of Gratitude
What are you grateful for today?
Review the Week
Sequence the week. As a group, review what you explored together over the last week.
What did we do in program this week? What was your favorite part?
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Today's photo is by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash.
Choosing Fun Stuff to Do
Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?
The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below.
