Help books
It can be difficult to think of new ideas for circle time, but there are plenty of useful reference books you can consult. Forest of Feelings by Jo Browning Wroe and Carol Holliday has been written to encourage children to explore feelings of fear, jealousy, sadness, anger and happiness. The book includes a guide on how to encourage children's emotional development, plus teacher's notes, activities and a circle time script, relating to each chapter. The book has 96 pages and is priced 18.99 from LDA.
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Helping Children with Feelings by Margot Sunderland and Nicky Armstrong is a series of nine guidebooks with accompanying illustrated storybooks, written for children aged from four to 12. Each guidebook includes comments from children on how they have dealt with the particular feeling and how they could have coped better. Exercises, tasks and ideas are also included to help children to express their feelings and to bring about a resolution.
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