Whole School – Friday’s Home Learning

1. Sit mindfully, with your spine straight and body relaxed
2. Take 3 soft, slow mindful breaths and feel them in your body
3. Breathe in and feel air coming into your nose. Does it feel soft in your nostrils? Breathe out and count one.
4. Breathe in and notice air filling your lungs. Does your ribcage go out? Breathe out and count two.
5. Breathe in and see the air expanding your middle. Does your tummy look round like a ball?  Breathe out and count three.
6. Repeat for two more rounds of breathing into your nose, lungs and tummy. 

Explain to your child that human beings can have loads of different feelings, and another word for feelings is emotions. Sometimes emotions change because of the things going on around us, and sometimes they change because of our thoughts. 

We give names to different ways we feel inside so we can talk about them with others. 

On a piece of paper draw 12 circles and write an emotion in each circle (See sheet below – print it off if you can). 

Think about what colour each emotion would be if they were colours and use that colour to shade in the circle. 

Please remember that there is no right or wrong answer to this. If everyone in your family did this you would probably find that you all have different colours and that is ok. Being aware of your emotions helps you identify them and that helps to manage them.