We have been reading lots of Tom Percival stories to help us take a peek inside our hearts and think about the different feelings we all experience from time-to-time. Big feelings are not always easy manage but it can help if we know how to talk about our feelings and begin to understand the things that might help us manage our feelings in different situations.

In Ravi’s Roar, we learnt about having temper tantrums and how to manage the very big feeling of anger:

In Milo’s Monster, we met the Green-Eyed-Monster and learnt more about how it feels to be jealous…https://youtu.be/tOKUV9uGiJY?si=NdsDoevOT_lfQAUS

And in The River, we learnt that feelings are always changing and we don’t always feel the same feelings every day.

In the first video below, Tom Percival reads the story himself. In this video (https://youtu.be/zrNUq4dvgSs) you can see the pictures much more clearly.

Have you read any more of Tom Percival’s Big Bright Feelings books? Which is your favourite one and why?

You can find out more about the books here: https://toppsta.com/books/series/42202/big-bright-feelings.

And you can find out more about the author here:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/tom-percival/

This week, we read the fourth book in the ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ series; ‘What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside’.

You can revisit the antics of Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len here:

At St. Matthew’s we use topics to guide our choice of Spotlight Stories and, this term, our topic is ‘Take a Peek’. Throughout the year, we will be helping the children to talk about the different emotions that we all feel and how they may be able to manage their emotions in different situations. The beautiful book ‘In My Heart’ by Jo Witek helped us to take a peek inside our hearts and have a look at all the different emotions we keep there.

Next, we read the story of ‘Ruby’s Worry’ by Tom Percival. This story helped us to understand that everyone has worries from time to time and the best thing to do, if you have a worry, is to talk about it!

We also thought about who we might talk to if we have a worry and the children came up with some super ideas: mummy, daddy, grandma, grandpa, a friend, a teacher and Mrs Morgan! At St. Matthew’s, all children are asked to think of two trusted adults at school who they might speak to if they have a worry. And, in Reception, we also have a worry phone and a worry phonebook with direct numbers for Elsa, Anna and the Green Ninja, amongst others! Photos to follow…