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Hope to Home January 2021: Planning My Year Planning My Year Overview January is often the fresh start for many individuals. With the coming of the new year, many want to explore and implement new beginnings. This month we will plan for important dates, goals, and ambitions for 2021. Planning My Year – Jan 2021 Objectives: By the end of this month, learners will be able to: • Collect and organize important service days, holidays, and key events in their lives. • Create a calendar of these dates • Define their organizational & personal planning styles • Discuss planning styles • Identify important dates, service events, and timelines for their ISPs 1
Hope to Home January Dates to Remember Daily Themes Month Awarenesses 1 New Years Day Bath Safety Month 2 National Science Fiction Day Glaucoma Awareness Month 3 JRR Tolkien Day Slow Cooking month 4 National Trivia Day Soup Month 5 National Whipped Cream Day Braille Literacy Month 6 Sherlock Holmes’ Birthday Hot Tea Month 7 Fossils & Old Rocks Day Get organized month 9 Word Nerd Day Hobby Month National Cut Energy Costs Day 10 Houseplant Appreciation day Weekly Themes National Hot Toddy Day Jan 10th - 11 Letter Writing Week Learn your name in morse code day 17 th 12 National Hot Tea Day Jan 10th - Pizza Week Korean American Day 17th 13 Clean Your Desk Day Jan 18th- Sugar Awareness 14 Dress Up Your pet Day Jan 24th 15 Hat Day Jan 23rd – Hot Air balloon Week Jan 31st 18 Blue Monday (saddest day of year) MLK Jr Day 20 Cheese Lovers Day Inaguration Hugging Day – (Covid safety “virtual 21 hug” 24 National Compliment Day 26 Australia Day International Holocaust 27 Rememberance Day 28 National Lego ADay 29 National Puzzle day 31 Fun @ Work Day 2
Hope to Home Week 1 January 4 th – January 8th Theme: Calendars from Around the World Weekly Goal: By the end of the week, participants will recall a calendar type from the history of calendars from around the world. Objective 01: Participants will collect and organize calendars from history according to historical timelines. Objective 02: Identify two uses of calendars historically (or culturally). Examples: sunlight, crops, hunting, specific holidays. Skill Building Participants will be defining the use of calendars, why humans tracked important dates historically, and identify why tracking dates is important. Goal: By the end of the week, participants will distinguish types of calendars used and explore ways that different cultures have historically kept track of important dates and times. 3
Hope to Home Monday January 4th - National Trivia Day Person-Centered Thinking & Safety Objective 01: At the end of the hour, participants will be able to explain why cultures practice keeping track of important dates over time. Objective 02: Participants will practice keeping track of important dates using a mock calendar activity on Zoom. 1. Introduce this week’s theme - 10 Minutes Calendars from around the world: Calendars are systems used to organize time and keep track of important moments in time over a long amount of time. We use monthly calendars based on Gregorian calendar themes 2. Questions to Consider & Ask the Chat – 10 Minutes a. Why do you think people use calendars? b. How do calendars help us with our cultural traditions? c. What are examples of important dates we could mark on our calendars based on some holidays we already know? (ex. Christmas, valentine’s day) 3. Introduce Calendars Used Around the World – 15 Minutes Calendars are used in almost every place in the world for different reasons. These reasons can be for following crop cycles, understanding lunar movements, or just to keep track of important dates throughout the year. 4. Wrap Up – 5 Minutes a. Review calendars covered in today’s meeting i. Lunar Calendar ii. Egyptian Calendar iii. Roman (Julian Calendar) iv. Gregorian Calendar b. Why we use Gregorian Calendar today 4
Hope to Home Tuesday January 5th Civics & Community Objective 01: Participants will identify three days important to the From Home to Home community. Objective 02: Participants will recall different calendars from cultural communities around the world. 1. Show and Share – 20 minutes Ask participants to recall some different calendars from around the world. If time permits, allow chat to use callout from yesterday and zoom annotate/identify calendars based on questions about the calendars from yesterday. a. Ask participants about specific days in hope to home that we may not have program. b. Why would we not have program? i. A holiday ii. Some sort of gathering iii. An emergency 2. Which calendar belongs to each culture activity – Calendar Trivia – 20 minutes a. Quick review of yesterday’s activity, countries, and what the calendars mean. b. Using yesterday’s lesson, match and/or write the name on the country in which the calendar belongs. c. Allow users to use Zoom annotation to draw a line from the country flag to the calendar in which the country may belong 3. Observed Holidays in Our Program & Wrap Up – 10 minutes a. Navigate to our yearly hope calendar b. How are days on our calendar are marked on our website? (visual call outs and zoom annotation heavy) 5
Hope to Home Wednesday January 6th Social Connection & Wellness Objective 01: When presented with a story about keeping track of important dates, participants will identify words used to track dates (habit, goal, important). Objective 02: Using date tracking, Participants will practice tracking their own important dates using zoom annotation. 1. Show & Share: Introduce this week’s theme – 20 Minutes a. How can tracking our dates/habits be a healthy decision for our wellness? b. Zoom calendar activity: Using Zoom & screen sharing or annotation, participants will identify an important date in January (examples – Martin Luther King Day, a holiday from another country’s calendar, etc.) c. Icons and visuals: Large calendar of January (or another month if selected). 2. Life Skills Story: Why keeping track of dates is important -– 30 minutes a. With the provided life skills story, participants will review the story and annotate as following. b. Use corresponding icons to share social story with participants. 3. Story Questions & Discussion – 15 minutes: a. Review the following terms with participants: habit, goal, tracking, and dates. b. Use the discussion prompts in the life skills story to ask participants why the characters keep track of dates and decide to work towards their goals. c. Ask the group if they have a specific goal that they would like to work towards in 2021. d. Brainstorm an example of a goal and why it is different from a habit. 6
Hope to Home Thursday January 7th Rights & Self Advocacy Objective 01: Participants will describe dates that are important to them or their culture throughout the year. Objective 02: Participants will sort dates based on importance based upon the week’s activities. 1. Show & Share – 20 Minutes a. Ask the participants what are dates you consider important to you (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year) b. If participants would like to share their screens, allow them to show an example of a way in which they celebrate their important holiday. 2. Which day would you consider important to remember? – 15 Minutes a. Important Example: my ISP meeting, my best friends’ birthday, a holiday important to my family. Non-important day: put a zucchini on my neighbor’s porch day, national hot dog day. b. Examples of dates that may be important in January are included at the beginning of curriculum is a list of fun days in January to use as exaples.. 3. More important, sort of important, Less important activity – 15-20 Minutes a. Share that you are going to review different holidays or dates that occur each year and the participants are going to have the opportunity to vote with Zoom annotation on if they consider the holiday more important or less important. b. Participants and staff will take turns sorting dates based by importance, such as service dates, holidays, and fun dates in between. c. Have important/not as important on screen. d. Read out the holiday and its description. Have participants Zoom annotate and circle either the word important or not important. e. Engage participants if they chose important or not important. Ask why they came to that conclusion and have them share if they find a specific day important than their peers f. Continue this activity until holidays are finished. You are more than welcome to discuss more holidays than the specific ones provided. 7
Hope to Home Friday January 8th Knowledge & Fun Objective 01: Participants will relate important dates to the community cultures (jeopardy game online). Objective 02: When presented with a list of important dates, participants will illustrate one reason this date is important. 1. Show & Share Review this week – 20 Minutes a. What calendars did we explore? b. Why is tracking on our calendars important for us to do? c. How/ Wwhat are some things we can track on our own calendars/ portfolio? d. Which calendar did you find the most fascinating, or coolest? Why was that calendar so cool to you? 2. Calendar Quiz Activity Game – 35 Minutes a. Using the PPT Quiz Game as a fun way to review this week’s topics 3. Wrap up the week – 5 Minutes a. How will participants use their calendars/portfolios in the future? b. Introduce next week’s theme: Planning styles c. How we can use planning styles to help us make our own plans and track our goals for the year using our new knowledge about keeping track of dates and holidays (or important events) in our portfolios)? 8
Hope to Home Week 2 January 11 – January 15 Theme: Planning Styles Goal: By the end of the week, participants will identify one planning style they would like to implement for their own 2021 plan. Objective 01: Given examples of planning styles that may be used, participants will select a planning style to implement on their monthly calendars. Objective 02: Shown different planning styles, participants will differentiate between each planning style with examples and explanations. Skill Building Distinguishing planning styles and keeping track of important dates Goal: Participants will gather and share planning styles to begin calendaring their own important dates in their hope to home portfolio. 9
Hope to Home Monday January 11th Person-Centered-Thinking & Safety Objective 01: Participants will list or identify a planning style when presented with an icon list. Objective 02: Participants will be able to set a date which they assess the safety of their workspace as a team virtually. 1. Introduce this week’s theme: Different Planning styles - 10 Minutes a. Different planning styles: This week we will discuss, explore, and review different styles of planning that an individual can use in their lives. Planning helps us remember important dates and the time of events, and is a great way to track out goals. 2. Show & Share: How do you plan? – 15 Minutes a. Ask participants if they have ever used a planner or calendar before. b. Was the calendar something you wrote in daily, monthly, or weekly? c. Allow participants time to discuss and discover ways that their peers might have used calendars in the past. 3. Explore Planning Styles – 30 minutes a. Using the icons provided, explain different types of planning styles. i. Goal Oriented Planning: In goal planning, you tend to lean towards creating plans and outlines where you can see your end goal and add in the milestones and objectives that you need to achieve to get there. ii. Direction – Sometimes while we are working towards something, we use plans that are a map (kind of like the map in the front of our portfolios that are coming out next week!). This is a strategy that can be used to. iii. Task Based – There are a variety of people out there that enjoy planning based on a to-do list. Simply checking off their tasks (or to-dos) for the day is how they like to plan their days, weeks, months, and even a full year! A task planner is someone who likes to make lists of what they need to do at that moment. 1. Do you have any examples of to-do lists? Have you ever tried to use them in a planning way? iv. Staying in the moment – This is a relatively neat way to stay organized, by focusing on what is happening right this second. They keep their eyes on the “end prize” of their daily plans and keep focused on what they can do in that moment in time to accomplish daily, weekly, or monthly goals. This type of planning usually involves time management and being aware of the clock and what you need to accomplish at that moment. 10
Hope to Home Tuesday January 12th Civics & Community Objective 01: Using an online calendar, participants will explore a community-based virtual museum in their area to calendar into their program. Objective 02: Participants will identify a date in which the community around them will vote. 1. Show & Share – Review Planning Styles – 15 minutes a. Review the week’s topic: Planning styles. b. Touch on the planning styles and briefly describe each one: Task oriented, Stay present, c. Using prompts from yesterday’s show and share discussion, ask participants what type of planning style they found the most interesting and why. 2. Find a virtual activity to attend in your community – 35 minutes a. Ask participants about places or events that they enjoy attending and visiting. b. As a group, decided on 3-5 activities or locations that you would like to research as a team. c. Navigate to the websites by using an internet search engine of your choice. d. Explore the website virtually with the participants, noting anything that may be of interest to be brought up later. e. See if the location has any “virtually-based events” available or upcoming on the calendar. This activity may be a sort of scavenger hunt, but it will be an excellent opportunity for participants to explore locations that we have not been able to explore physically this year. f. Make a note of any events (either pre-recorded or upcoming) for a future date. 3. Wrap – Up & Review – 10 minutes a. Remind participants that planning styles are all different, but they all act towards achieving the best possible outcome. b. Review the places you found today and note if there are any events that are upcoming or prerecorded to attend. c. Using the virtual calendar, record one (or more if wanted) dates in which an event will be streamed or when the team can attend virtually. 11
Hope to Home Wednesday January 13th Social Connection & Wellness Objective 01: Participants will be able to identify dates in their week that can be used for relaxation exercises. Objective 02: Participants will demonstrate using their personal calendar to create a social Zoom meet-up with their breakout group. (Potential for meeting outside of program hour – participant driven activity) 1. Show & Share – What relaxation techniques have you used while at home? – 30 Minutes a. Review the week’s theme and yesterday’s activity. b. Again, ask participants if they are leaning toward a planning style or if they are still thinking about the options. c. Remind them that next week the portfolios will be arriving, and we will begin to track our own important dates, goals, holidays, and anything else in the portfolios. d. Ask participants about ways they have relaxed or kept active while being remote (Examples could be yoga, walks, meditation, reading, crafting, creating, etc. The possibilities of relaxation are truly endless!) e. Ask participants ways in which they have used virtual spaces to socialize and used their face-to-face time online to relax. Have they been sharing what they are doing after program? Are you sharing book reviews online with peers? There are many things that participants may be doing virtually. 2. Social Story Annotation: Relaxing Virtually – 30 minutes a. Using the provided life skills story and prompts, read the life skills story, and ask participants the corresponding questions. b. How has relaxing virtually changed from relaxing like we did in program? c. What are was virtually relaxing has been better? d. What are ways that we can continue to make relaxing virtually better? e. While participants answer questions (or annotate the screen with the icon examples) take note of their answers and remind them that we can try to implement these ideas in the coming weeks using our portfolio and tracking days that we complete the tasks as well as how we feel to see if the relaxation techniques we have identified are virtually working. 12
Hope to Home Thursday January 14th Rights & Self Advocacy Objective 01: Given a list of breakout room options for the next week, participants will calendar in at least two breakout sessions they want to attend and share these with their peers. Objective 02: After a virtual challenging scenario story is shared, participants will identify the challenge, and one action they can use to address the challenge (muting microphone, sharing screen, etc.). 1. Show & Share: Virtual Experiences We Enjoy – 15 minutes a. How have virtual classes helped us? What are ways that being able to “hang out” virtually has helped us stay connected? b. Allow participants to share their experiences with attending virtual programming (both positive and negative). c. Ask participants how we can plan to make virtual programming more accessible for their friends and other individuals. (Please keep note of anything interesting you find.) 2. Scenario – Planning for virtual challenges in program – 35 minutes a. Read the virtual challenges in program scenario. b. Using the scenario provided, explore the challenges that the characters have while attending courses virtually. c. Review the challenge story and ask participants to: i. Discuss how to plan for anything that may occur while attending program virtually. ii. Identify keyways in which being patient and flexible can help solve any virtual challenges. d. Create a task list for identifying virtual challenges that may be encountered during virtual programming. i. This task list can be created using Zoom annotation. Create a list of other challenging virtual events that occur on one side of the screen. On the other side of the screen, create a list of ways that we can plan to problem-solve these events. ii. As a team, create an action plan with at least 3 steps that facilitators and participants can utilize in the event of a virtual challenge. iii. Challenge examples: microphone unmuted, video not working, someone getting kicked out of a room, screen frozen, etc. 13
Hope to Home Friday January 15th Knowledge & Fun Objective 01: Participants will be able to identify similarities and differences between dates, planning, and keeping track of things in their planner when presented with examples. Objective 02: By the end of the lesson, participants will demonstrate one way in which they have created a plan by marking a date in their portfolio and sharing with their group. 1. Show & Share: Let us Review this week – 20 Minutes a. What sort of planning styles did we explore? b. Which style did you like? Which do you not like? c. Why is tracking on our calendars important for us to do? d. Are we ready to receive our portfolio? What are we going to be tracking? 2. Virtual Exploration Activity – 35 Minutes a. For Tuesday’s activity this week, we explored a few places in our communities that offer virtual tours, have virtual events occurring throughout the year, what are some that we can watch now? b. What are activities that we would like to explore in the future? c. How can we use this resource to explore places we haven’t be able to explore while we have been working virtually? 3. Wrap up the week – 15 Minutes a. Review the week’s goals and objectives. b. How will participants use their calendars/portfolios in the futures? c. Introduce next week’s theme: Planning styles and how we can use planning styles to help us make our own plans and track our goals for the year. d. REMIND EVERYONE THERE IS NO PROGRAM ON MONDAY 14
Hope to Home Week 3 January 18 – January 22 Theme: Important Service Dates Goal: By the end of the week, participants will identify and recall the 4 most important service dates of their year and mark them on their personal planners. Objective 01: Participants will be able to classify personal service dates from other important dates using their Hope to Home planner Objective 02: Using their Hope to Home planner, participants will schedule their service dates for 2021 Skill Building Recognizing important dates Goal: Participants will understand, recall, and identify service dates important to their Hope to Home programming. Monday January 18th No program – Martin Luther King Jr. Day 15
Hope to Home Tuesday January 19th Civics & Community Objective 01: When presented with a holiday, participants will describe why we take off specific days of the year to commemorate dates and important occurrences culturally. Objective 02: After reviewing a monthly calendar, participants will identify which days we take off yearly. 1. Introduce this week’s skill building theme – 15 minutes Recognizing important dates and adding them to our planner: a. Why are keeping dates important to us? b. Why is focusing on service dates important? c. What service date is the most important to mark down (ISP) d. When is our ISP usually scheduled? 2. Questions to Consider & Ask the Chat – 20 minutes a. This week is all about our most important service dates. b. Use the resources provided to review what an annual meeting generally looks like. c. Ask participants if they can recall the most important service dates throughout the year i. Examples of service dates are an annual ISP, a semi-annual ISP d. Review how we can use our habit trackers and planners to create for both our annual and semi-annual meetings. e. Review ways in which tracking our habits and goal progress will help us get the most of our virtual meetings each day 3. Brainstorming our Annual Meeting 20 minutes a. Ask clients to review ways in which they think that our virtual program can be shared during their annual meeting b. Using reference and brainstorming material, come up with 3 different ways virtual programming will be shared in our annual meeting Wednesday January 20th Social Connection & Wellness Objective 01: Using their portfolio habit trackers, participants will identify 1-3 habits they would like to keep track of for a week. Objective 02: Participants will define two days in each week that they would like to explore their portfolio habit trackers with their breakout teams. 1. Check in – Show & Share (15 minutes) 16
Hope to Home a. Recap yesterday’s activity and this week’s theme. b. What are some ways keeping track of goals and habits are good for us? c. Have you found a habit tracker you like? 2. Exploring New Habits (20 Minutes) a. At the beginning of every year, many people like to start fresh and learn new skills (or become better at old ones) b. Brainstorm a list of things that people may want to learn, try, or explore more. i. Examples of new habits can be: practice a language for 5 minutes a day, paint something new, complete a puzzle, move your body for 20 minutes each day, reflect. ii. Allow clients to brainstorm new habits iii. Use a search engine if needed to explore different habits that are funny or quirky c. Using the hope to home portfolio, ask clients to use an icon or write down what habit they would like to try for the next week. Thursday January 21st Rights & Self Advocacy Objective 01: By the end of the hour, participants will choose one service provided in which they would like to establish a working session or date to review the services or ask for different services (if needed) Service reassessment. 1. Check in – Show & Share (15 Minutes) a. Review this week’s theme and recap yesterday: What are ways in which we can use our virtual program for our portfolios? b. Make note of participant answers and ask if they would like to share some of their ideas with other sites c. Tomorrow’s show and share will be a review of this week’s habit. d. Ask participants if they have begun to track and how they are tracking (if they started) 2. Reviewing our services (30 Minutes) a. Our program offers many services that help participants b. Ask participants to brainstorm different services they have received c. Are there ways that we can work towards making our services better? d. What sort of plan do we need in place to try and make change? e. Service changes need to be discussed with our service team, are there any changes you’d like to add to your plans? Friday January 22nd Knowledge & Fun: 1. Show & Share: What’s been good this month? (20 Minutes) 17
Hope to Home a. Today’s show and share is a little different. Let’s review the things that have been good this month. b. Why was it so good? c. Could it be better? d. What do you want to do next month? e. Allow participants to share anything they want about this month so far and how the new year has been good to them. f. Keep it positive! 2. January Themed Bingo (25 minutes) a. Use the provided bingo generator and January themed bingo cards to play a little bingo this morning b. Have fun! 18
Hope to Home Week 4 January 25 – January 29 Theme: Planning, Calendars, and My Service Dates Goal: By the end of the week, participants will develop, mark their calendar, and recall the 4 most important service dates of their year Objective 01: When prompted to recall important dates, participants will accurately recall dates previously marked in their hope to home planner Objective 02: Using calendar scenarios, participants will describe the service date that is coming up in the scenario Objective 03: Given examples of calendars, planning styles, and services, participants will correctly classify each example into its correct category Skill Building Putting it together: My 2021 Calendar Goal: Participants will discuss their planning style, share their hope to home 2021 calendar, and recall all service dates Monday January 25th Person-Centered-Thinking & Safety Objective 01: When presented with yearly service dates (Annual, semi-annual, etc.) participants will be able to recognize when their annual or semiannual will take place throughout the year. Objective 02: After reviewing the safety around their home, participants will identify and mark the date in which they checked the batteries in a device in their home (example: smoke alarm, remote) 1. Check In – Show & Share (15 Minutes) Share and review this week’s topic: Planning, Calendars, and dates a. This week we will focus on the topics and outlines that we have been reviewing for January. b. What calendars have we discussed? c. Which calendar have you found most fascinating? d. Allow clients the chance to share their current portfolios and any sort of tracking mechanism they have come up with. 2. Theme of The Week (15 Minutes) a. This week will be focused on exploring everything we have been working on up to this month. 19
Hope to Home b. How will topics like habit tracking, goal creating, and reviewing these topics help us in the future? c. What were some topics we learned this month that we think we should explore more? i. Habit Trackers ii. Creating goals iii. Portfolios & Planning iv. Using planning to be involved in our community 3. Questions to Consider & Ask the Chat (10 Minutes) a. What are dates you remember every year (these can be good, bad, happy, sad, exciting, etc.) b. Do dates (actual date) change? No, but the day of the week might! (Memorial Day for example) 4. Safety around my home (20 Minutes) a. Review the resources provided to begin assessing the safety of your at home workspace b. What are some workspace problems we may have? c. What action steps can we take to fix these? Tuesday January 26th Civics & Community Objective 01: Participants will recall why we keep dates based on important local decisions (such as elections, votes, or locally based decisions) and report a date in which they found. 1. Check In – Show & Share (15 Minutes) a. Briefly recap and share what you did yesterday to make your workspace (or virtual Zoom space for program) safer for you to work in or around b. Allow clients to share what they have Done in their spaces in order to create a safer working area c. Brainstorm other potential hazards that we can be aware of. 2. Activity on topic – 20 minutes a. Describe ways in which we can get involved virtually within our communities. b. Use the resource material provided to explore dates, locations, and times when local events occur that directly impact our communities c. An example of a local event that involves votes would be a public planning committee 3. Share which important dates you have found and research them as a team. (10 Minutes) a. Brainstorm ways in which we can make an impact by marking these dates and what sort of contributions we can make using our input b. Create a three-step action plan as a group that you would like to act upon virtually 20
Hope to Home Wednesday January 27th Social Connection & Wellness Objective 01: After reading a story about a personal health plan, participants will identify which habits or healthy activity the character decided to partake in Objective 02: When prompted by staff, participants will share their planning style, and one important date from their hope to home portfolio calendar 1. Check In – Show & Share (15 Minutes) a. Review yesterday’s lesson on being active (even if it means being active virtually) in our communities. b. What did your three-step plan look like for becoming active within your community? c. Today’s show and share is which 2. Skills Story – Planning for Our Health (35 Minutes) a. Use the attached story to review a health plan. b. The story will have a character that decides to create a healthy plan to attain their personal health goals c. Use attached links to see how individual’s have changed their lives by planning for their health 3. Which planning style have you liked the most (15 Minutes) a. Over the last month we have explored planning styles and types in which we want participants to utilize both physically and virtually in the future. b. Prompt participants to remind them the different types of planning styles and planning techniques we’ve gone over c. If needed, review 21
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Hope to Home Friday January 29th Knowledge & Fun Objective 01: When presented with topics from Calendar month (previous weeks) participants will identify and answer questions while using a quiz-based identification game. 1. Check in – Show & Share (20 minutes) a. Review the Month and all topics covered b. What was an aha moment? c. What would you like to see more of in the future? d. What would you like to see less of? 2. End of month activity (30 minutes) a. Using the activity provided online, explore different topics that we’ve covered using a quiz style game. b. Discuss that next week we will be exploring the topics of relationships and setting boundaries both with our loved ones and ourselves c. Our Monday Show & Share topic will be something or some one around us that we consider important and why 23
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