Daily CheckIn It can be really helpful to
Daily Check-In It can be really helpful to try to know and understand how our children are feeling, but it isn’t always easy for our children to communicate this with us. Visual check-in tools can help children to communicate their thoughts and emotions. • Experimenting with different ways of ‘checking in’ is a good idea as different children will respond better to some visuals more than others. • It’s often helpful to start by naming the feelings in the images before moving on to ask children to share how they are feeling. There are question prompts to help on the slides. • If a child indicates that they are feeling unhappy/angry/worried etc. but they do not or cannot say ‘why’, then it can be helpful to say something along the lines of, “Thank-you for sharing how you feel, that can be really hard to do. Now that I know you’re feeling like that, I’ll be able to support you today if you need me to. If you’d like to talk to me about why you’re feeling like this then we can find some time later to do that. ”
Bear Cards
• How do you think each bear feels? • Why might they feel like this? • What might have happened to the bear? • Which of these bears feels like you today? • More ways to use the bears: http: //www. qcards. com. au/ideas-for-parents
Blob Resources
• How do you think the blob feels? • Why might they feel like this? • What might have happened to the blob? • Which of the blobs do you think is the happiest? • Where would you choose to be in this picture? • Which of these blobs feels like you today?
Feelings Scales
• Children sometimes find placing themselves on a scale easier than naming a feeling • You may like to suggest what feeling may go where – i. e. what would a ‘number 6’ feel like?
How do you feel today? 1 Not Great 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Amazing!
Excellent Great Good OK Uh-Oh Bad
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