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West Coast Language Development Centre CHANGING FUTURES _________________________

Name: __________________

Year: 20____

Social Skills Support - Kindy

The following are some ideas on supporting Social Skills development during school closure. We have included some infor-

mation about school-wide approaches to body awareness and listening behaviour. Your child is aware of this language and we

thought it may be useful for you if you are trying to engage them at home. We have also attached some visual supports for

this.

We have chosen some of our Social Skills lessons from our I Do It! package that particularly focus on feelings. Children often

pick up on our worries and fears and don’t always have the ability to express how they are feeling. This may support you to

support your child through their feelings.

Whole Body Listening

We use this term throughout our classrooms to refer to how students should sit down to listen.

We listen with our whole body:

Legs crossed

Hands in lap

Eyes looking at the speaker

Mouth closed

Brain paying attention

Ears listening

Boss of Body/Mouth

Boss of Your Body and Boss of Your Mouth are other terms that we use throughout our days at WCLDC. This refers to the way

we move around and the way we speak to each other. We are being the Boss of Our Body when:

Our hands are by our sides

Feet are walking

Eyes are watching where we are going

Ears are listening

We are the Boss of Our Mouth when it is closed while listening or talking at an appropriate volume (inside and outside voices).

We also refer to being the Boss of Our Mouth when we use kind words and greetings.

Feelings

Stand in front of a mirror with your child. Pull “feeling faces” (e.g. happy, sad, mad, scared) and get your child to copy you. Talk

about which feeling you are showing and look for clues that tell you that – for example a smile shows you are happy, a frown

shows you are sad, nearly closed eyes can show that you are mad.

Talk about which feelings feel good and which ones don’t feel good, and why. For example, it doesn’t feel good to feel scared,

but it helps by warning you of danger.

Use the picture of Billy Koala with the different faces. For each of the faces talk about some things that may have happened to

make Billy feel that way. You can refer back to this throughout your days as needed, it may help to talk through any big feelings

that arise for your child.

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Visual timetables

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