Anger is a normal healthy emotion. What we do with our anger and frustration is an important skill to learn early on in life to create healthy habits.
Dovi and Evan role playing what makes them angry and showing us their angry faces.
What can we do when are angry?
We used the Stop Light Method.
Stop. Think. Act.
Learning how to stop and think (of how to deal with the frustration) VS immediately reacting is a skill we need for life!
Hannah telling us what makes her really upset. As a class we thought and came up with our 'green light' solution!
We used this method throughout the week and it really helped the children work out their own problems.
Motty creating his own stop light sign and writing the words himself.
Breathe in and out
It is so important to get enough oxygen into our system. A flower (smell-breathing in) and a candle (blowing out the 'fire') helped our friends practice deep breathing. Throughout the week we encourage the children to BREATHE. This helped especially when they were sad or upset.
Making a take home version to help with deep breathing. Batya smelling the flower and blowing through the tube.
Morah Avigail shared with us a great calming technique that showed wonders for some of our friends.
A grid from 1-10 with a sad face becoming sadder as the numbers went higher helped the children differentiate what is something small that we can move on from or something that requires more problem solving.
Saige showing another technique of how she drew her sad scenario 10 times on a paper. By the 10th time she was able to talk calmly about what happened and even came up with her own solution!
Calming basket
A basket filled with different sensory input objects. We also placed the flower and candle from circle time for children to practice their deep breathing.
Moshe found magnets in the calming basket.
Ari started off circle time with something bothering him. It was challenging for him to verbalize what he needed. We passed him a balloon filled with flour from the relaxing basket. It was a great way to calm down and verbalize what he needed.
Cornstarch and water is one of the most calming and therapeutic sensory experience.
When using fast motions the texture is firm, when using slow motions it dissolves and melts.
Relaxing Yoga!
Quiet space centers
Centers that require concentration are a great way to re-focus and calm ourselves.
Evan sitting at a beading table that only had one chair to create his own space.
Dovi using many different materials to push through pool noodles. This was a great activity for fine motor skills as well as concentration.
Dramatic play creates so many opportunities to practice our self- control.
Sweet moment of the week..
Mendel being sweet and helping out Batya!
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