Feelings Thermometer

About this book

Five is not a bad number. The moment a child works out that saying five gets a sigh, a raised eyebrow or a consequence, the thermometer is finished. It will read one or two forever and tell you nothing. A five reported early is the single most useful thing a scale like this can produce, because it is the only one that arrives in time to do anything about. Thermometers in three sizes: five levels blank, five with plain words already on them, three levels for a younger child, and ten for an older student who finds five too blunt. A personal page filled in WITH the child, on a calm day, in their language. A child who writes "fizzy" at three and "volcano" at five will use those words. Then the half that turns a number into a tool: what helps me at each level, where I feel it in my body, and check-in grids by day and by lesson. This is an original scale. It is not a version of any published program, it does not use anybody else's color order, and it is not affiliated with any branded regulation curriculum.

What's inside

• Thermometers in three, five and ten levels, blank and pre-worded
• A personal page filled in with the child, in their words and not yours
• What helps me at each level, because a number alone is a weather report
• Where I feel it: body clues come before words do
• Check-in grids by day and by lesson, plus a filled example