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Sherrie Salinas sherriebobby@gmail.com Course ID#: 050316 Final Practicum The Penny Game The Penny Game is used for socializing and fun. We use this, especially if we get new residents to kind of break the ice or just get to know each other. It also helps the residents use and keep their reading and math skills. The materials needed for this game is a bunch of pennies. A container with a lid with the questions inside. Small cups for each resident or bowl to keep their money in. Enough for at least 6 people; you can have more players if you want, but 6 is a good number. Then you have to have at 20 to 30 questions. The questions can be anything simple to something silly, (I will list sample questions below). Be sure to have resident seated at a table circle works best but a square one works well too. The way you play the game is, you pass out 10 pennies to each resident. They can keep them in front of them or they can keep them in a cup, which ever works out best for them. Begin by having them read a question. If the question says Give that means that the one reading the question will give the penny to the person the question is referring too. If the question says Take, then that means that everyone will take a penny if that question refers to them. You keep playing until you are done with questions or your hour is up. You can play from 30 minutes to an hour. The person with the most pennies at the end of the game wins the game. Here are some sample questions: These sample questions are when the person who is reading it will have to give a penny from their cup to whoever has the color red on, or has brown hair, has been to Paris or has been on an airplane. Give a penny to everyone who is wearing the color red. Give a penny to everyone who has brown hair. Give a penny if you have ever been to Paris. Give a penny if you have been on an airplane. The next sample questions are when you say Take. That means everyone takes penny from the container holding all the pennies. Here are some sample questions for this: Take a penny if you were born in August. Take a penny if you are wearing jewelry. Take a penny if you love to play sports. Take a penny if you have ever been to New York City. Take 5 pennies if you are enjoying this game. This is a simple and fun game. There are really no rules and you can make up your own questions. This really helps to keep the residents engaged and involved. You can even make different questions to match up with the seasons, or holidays. I know that your residents will really enjoy this game as much as my residents enjoy it.

Hello everyone! My name is Sherrie and I am currently taking my MEPAP 1. I have 2 weeks to go! Yea!! I have learned a lot and I feel that this course is helping me to prepare for my career as an activity professional. I have been working at a skilled nursing facility for 7 years now. I worked as a dietary aide for 3 years. When they had an opening in the activity department, I applied and now here I am 4 years later. I love my job. I currently work with our memory care residents. It is a lot of work but it is so worth it. The course that I have been taking has been very informative and helpful. To be honest the hardest thing about the course is managing my time. I work fulltime, I have no internet at home and my computer broke about 2 weeks ago. So everything that I have done online has been at work. It makes it hard to have to do my own job plus make time to work on my course. I have stayed very late at my job to do my classes and to do chats online. But I has been worth it! Well I will be going now, I hope you all have a great day and I am looking forward to chatting with everyone!