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Whole School – Friday’s Home Learning

Whole School – Friday’s Home Learning

Home learning for Friday 5th June

Warm up activity Inhaling the Universe
  1. Stand with your feet wide apart. Raise your toes up and lower them again. Feel the bottoms of your feet on the floor.
  2. Raise your arms as high as you can, fingers spread and breathe in deeply. Hold your breath.
  3. Bend forward, breathe out and say a big “Ahhhh!” Swing your arms down by your sides. 
  4. Breathe in and imagine scooping the entire universe into your arms and over your head as you stand up again. Hold your breath and imagine showering yourself with stars.
  5. Bend forward, releasing your breath with another big “Ahhhh!”
  6. Imagine scooping the universe up and over your head two more times. 
Main activity How do we act when we are feeling anxious? 

Recap last week’s discussion about worries. Hopefully you still have the drawings of the worries you and your child talked about. 

Explain to your child that sometimes, when we feel anxious, we act in ways that make us feel better for a little while, but that won’t help change how we feel about that situation. Because we feel the same about the situation, our worries come back just the same next time. Talk about how worry and anxiety can make us behave in ways we don’t normally behave, that is our body and brains’ way of telling us we need help to deal with this worry. For example we might be worried about going to school and that might make us not sleep very well, if a worry is affecting how we feel then we need to get help so the worry doesn’t take over. 

The activity today is to write two lists. List one should be titled ‘Happy Brain’, in this list you and your child should write or draw as many things as you can that make you really happy. e.g. family, friends, a favourite comforter etc. Talk about the list with your child and try to describe to each other how it makes you happy. e.g. The smell of my cuddly toy makes me feel calm and relaxed and that makes me happy. 

List two should be titled ‘Worried Brain’, in this list your child should describe the ways the worries you talked about last week make you feel. e.g. The dark makes me feel nervous because I can’t see and I worry there might be something I can’t see that I don’t like. That makes me have a tummy ache. Link this list with the list of worries you made with your child and the list of physical changes we may experience when we are worried (22nd May).

 

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