Whole School – Friday’s Home Learning

1. Stand straight with your feet apart and your arms by your sides. Feel the bottoms of your feet planted on the floor. Keep your eyes open.
2. Imagine you are a mountain rising up from the ocean. Your head is the top of the mountain.
3. Raise your arms and stretch your fingers apart. Imagine that lifts the mountain higher. Hold this position for a moment, solid as a mountain.
4. Notice if you have any thoughts or worries. See them as tiny waves splashing the mountain.
5. Breathe in and breathe out to blow the waves far out to sea. Watch the water become calm and still around you.
6. Lower your arms, take 3 mindful breaths and relax. 

Discuss with your child that everyone feels many different feelings everyday, and sometimes the less happy feelings that you talked about last week take up more space in our thoughts and this can make us worried. 

On a plain piece of paper draw a picture of yourself in the middle. Then ask your child ‘How do you feel right now?’ Around the edge of the picture write all the different emotions your child is feeling right now. It is a great idea to do your own picture too so that you can show your child that you feel a mixture of emotions too. You might feel happy that you are drawing with your child, you might feel nervous because you haven’t drawn a picture for a long time, you might feel weary because you are trying to homeschool and work from home,  you might feel excited because you’ve got something delicious for dinner etc. 

Comparing your pictures and emotions and discussing them will help you both to acknowledge your emotions.