Parenting Tip

Doing the Noodle!

 

This is a script to give you some ideas about helping children relax when they are stressed, anxious or worried. The main idea is to help children be like a soft, cooked noodle and relax! 

Here are the steps:

1) Start by explaining that a worried stressed body is usually stiff like an uncooked noodle that could easily be broken.

2) To relax, children want to look and feel like a cooked noodle - soft, floppy and warm

3) To do this, children loosen up their body parts by wiggling them, shaking them, and telling them to relax.

4) Children start by telling their toes to 'wiggle', then they tell their toes to 'stop' and feel warm and soft.

5) Then they do the same with the other body parts, starting with their feet, legs, bottom, tummy, hands, arms, shoulders, face and head, until their whole body feels like a soft cooked noodle lying on a plate! 

(Source 'Tuning into Kids')

Amanda Thorpe - PFSA 

Composer of the week  

Ludwig van Beethoven

Continuing with our Classical theme this week's Composer is Ludwig van Beethoven. 
 

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. He wrote classical music for the piano, orchestras and different groups of instruments.

 Beethoven lived when the piano was still a new instrument, and when he was a young man, he was a talented pianist. Beethoven was popular with the rich and important people in Vienna, Austria, where he lived.

In 1801, however, he began to lose his hearing. His deafness became worse. By 1817, he was completely deaf. Although he could no longer play in concerts, he continued to compose. During this time he composed some of his greatest works. He is said to be one of the greatest classical composers who has ever lived.