What your child will be learning about
What you can talk about together
Note to parents/carers: take care to frame ideas in positive language. For example, if a child says ‘Don’t be mean to your friends,’ acknowledge and praise this response and re-word it into something like ‘… be kind to your friends.’
What are the ‘ingredients’ that make a good friendship? Discuss with your child what is important in a friendship. Write your ideas down - recipe style!
Sometimes we can fall out with friends so you could think of another recipe – a recipe for making up.
Write and draw about your friends on Harold the giraffe's special activity sheet:
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How would you feel if:
Look at photos in a book or magazine and see if you can work out how people are feeling. How can you tell?
Summarise by saying that we can show our feelings even without speaking and that others can tell how someone is feeling by looking at their face or body.
Explain that this is sometimes called body language. Being able to ‘read’ a person’s body language is a useful skill as it helps us to understand how they are feeling and respond to them in a suitable way.
Use magazine cuttings or photos and stick them to a piece of paper. Use as many words as you can to describe how the people of the photos are feeling, e.g. happy, overjoyed, elated, smiley, fantastic…
Or you could make this feelings mask:
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Families come in many different forms. Families are made up of people who are special to us.
Draw a picture of a large balloon on a piece of paper. Make the balloon big enouth to fill the paper. Then draw and/or write your special people in it.
Make a chatterbox! Find out how, below...
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Try to encourage your child to talk freely about their feelings. Get them to think of different ways they can deal with difficult feelings and feel better. Share some of your feelings, too.