Hands are not for Hitting

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My hands help me comb. My hands help me comb. My hands help me comb my hair; my hands help me comb. Music: Sing and use gestures top the song “Skinamarinky Dinky Dink”: Skinamarinky dink, Skinamarinky doo, I love you. Skinamarinky dinky dink, Skinamarinky doo, I love you. I love you in the morning, and in the afternoon. I love you in the evening, and underneath the moon. Skinamarinky dink, Skinamarinky doo…I LOVE YOU (I really mean it), I love you too! Peter never plays Here comes that kid with me. who teases me... I want that I don’t like it when my toy! sister takes my things! Why do people hit? Sometimes they feel….. Hands are for working together. Hands are for playing, learning, doing, and building. Hands are not for hitting. Hitting is never ok. So what can you do when you and your friend don’t get along? Sometimes people want to be the boss of Have you felt these ways? Maybe you wanted someone. to hit someone. But hands are not for hitting.

Hands are for helping. There are many ways you can use your hands to be a helper. How do you make yourself handy? Hands come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Hands are for saying hello. There are lots of things your hands are meant to do. My hands help me dress. My hands help me dress. My hands put on my clothes and shoes; my hands help me dress. Introduce the concept of the day by having the children think about the many different ways we use our hands to talk. Recall from the story the ways our hands can talk: hands wave hello and goodbye, hands shake when meeting, hands draw and write, they gesture “come here” and they point, clap, count, hug, give high-fives, make a promise… Discuss how we can also talk with our hands using sign language. Demonstrate a few simple signs or show photographs and have the children imitate the signs. Encourage the children to try to use signs throughout the day to request “food”, “all done” or “more” Make-Believe: teach the children how to make shadow puppets. You can build a tent in the classroom and have children go in the tent with flashlights. One child can make a shadow puppet and the other children shine their flashlights on the shadow puppet so that the shadow is displayed on the wall or the side of the tent. Children can take turns making up stories go with their shadow puppets. Discuss how sometimes shadows can be scary and sometimes they are really funny. Idea of the Day: How We Use Our Hands to Make Music

Hands are for taking care of you. They’re for putting on pajamas, washing your face, combing your hair, brushing your teeth, and turning out the light at bedtime. What do you do to take care of you?

This book is a very colorful tool that helps make the lessons more tangible for a child with receptive language difficulties. Pictures make everything a bit easier for my child to grasp and I was able to sign along to some of the simple phrases for him to understand better. Math: How many hands? Have children measure the size of the objects in the classroom by working in teams to count “how many hands high/long” the object is. How many hands across a door? How many hands across a table? How many hands high is the chair? Record their measurements, then discuss what is the tallest, longest, etc.. While the children are measuring objects, talk about all the different ways they are using their hands. Idea of the Day: How Hands Are Not for Hitting There’s some thing hands are NOT for. How does it feel when someone hits? Hands are not for hitting. Hitting isn’t friendly. It hurts a person’s body. It hurts a person’s feelings, too. Hitting I’m Sorry. Give children several scenarios and play a game of “What could you do instead of hitting?” Examples below:This booklet about hitting can be personalised to specifically support individual students. For a some students, dealing with frustrations are not easy and this can manifest itself in behaviours such as hitting. This social situation identifies alternative calming strategies that can be used when students begin to feel frustrated or angry and want to hit others. You can easily add the student's name and details and also include their preferred method of calming. Read the booklet regularly, specifically prior to identified times of difficulty such as outside play. Designed to be inclusive, Twinkl Social Situations use positive language to re-affirm that is it OK to have different feelings, and gently guide students to potential ways they can deal with them. What are Social Situations?

Hands are for greeting and communicating. You can wave to a friend. There are many friendly ways you can use your You can draw pictures or write hands to communicate. words. You can shake hands. Try it now. Shake hands with the person next to you. You can try to solve the problem together. You can try to understand how your friend feels. You can talk about it. Your friend can try to understand how you feel. You can listen. You can think of ways to make things right.

Repetition of the same book allows children a chance to really learn the story – it becomes their story by the end of the week! Repetition helps children feel confident and competent as they become able to talk about the story, predict what will happen next, recognize and understand certain words, talk about their own experiences related to the story, and even make up their own story! Based on this idea, try reading Hands Are Not For Hitting every day for several days during the week and emphasize a different concept, word or idea from the book each day. Continue to build on the concept with related activities in small group/center time. An example is included below: Idea of the Day: How We Use Our Hands to "Talk" Don't hesitate to buy this even if you think your child might be a bit too old. It is very basic and simple, but sometimes that is the most effective approach.