Happy Friday! Sadly, it was just tooooo cold to go to the Forest this morning. Due to the cold and snow, we have been mostly inside for the past couple of weeks, and we are sure missing running around on the playscape and going for our walks. The Willow classroom has been working on new ways to calm their minds and bodies during these crazy times, and today they shared the Tapping Method with us.
First, you decide how your body feels. If you are very angry, you hold your arms all the way out to the sides to signify a 10: the most angry. If you are very calm, your hands are folded together in front of your chest. This means zero: the most calm. Then, you take a deep breath and begin tapping on different parts of your body. You start by tapping the side of one hand with two fingers from your other hand. Then you move to your eyebrows, tapping the space in between. Then the sides of your eyes. Next, your undereyes, followed by the area under your nose, then under your chin. After tapping your chin, you move to your collarbone, the area under your arm, and finally, end with tapping the top of your head. I'm probably not explaining this very well, so please feel free to check out the video below, which goes into more detail about Tapping! You can also ask your Acorn to share their tapping tricks with you this evening-- they were really interested in the whole process. When I got to school today, they couldn't wait to tell me all about how it works and they loved practicing it over and over.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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