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SAMMY 1 — Understanding My Feelings
Supporting children to recognise, name, and understand sensations and emotions with warmth and safety.
How is your child's body budget today?
Check in with your child's body energy. No zone is good or bad — each is simply helpful information.
My body feels ready
Calm, steady, and ready to learn, play, and connect.
My body is getting busy
Restless, silly, fluttery, or feeling a little spark rising.
My body needs help
Overwhelmed, stormy, upset, or needing safe comfort.
SAMMY 1 — Understanding My Feelings
Four weeks of playful, parent-supported learning designed to help children notice, understand and communicate their feelings.
Noticing what my body feels
Begin by helping your child notice the physical sensations that can happen in their body.
Naming my feelings
Build emotional vocabulary by helping your child notice, identify and use feeling words.
Feelings in motion & rest
Explore how movement, pauses and connection can support children as they experience different feelings.
Connecting & sharing my world
Help your child bring their growing emotional understanding into connection, communication and everyday life.
Week 1: Noticing what my body feels
This week is about helping your child slow down, notice their body and begin recognising that bodies can give us useful information about how we are feeling.
What your child is learning
Children experience emotions through their whole bodies. Before they can always explain a feeling with words, they may notice changes such as a fast heartbeat, a tight tummy, warm cheeks, wiggly hands or a heavy body.
Notice these moments alongside your child without needing to fix, stop or change the feeling immediately.
Sammy notices his body
Introduce Sammy as a friend who is learning to notice what his body is telling him.
"Sammy is wondering what his body is telling him. I wonder what your body is telling you?"
Keep the conversation playful and curious. There is no right or wrong answer.
The body weather map
Help your child imagine their body as a weather map. Different parts of the body can feel different things at different times.
Tension & release
Invite your child to notice the difference between a body that feels tight and a body that feels loose.
What is your body telling you?
"What do you notice in your body?"
"Does your body feel busy or steady?"
Notice it in real life
Sammy's sensation detective
Notice three different body sensations during the day.
Pause & reflect
Week 2: Naming my feelings
This week helps children build a growing vocabulary for feelings.
Why feeling words matter
Children need repeated opportunities to hear and practise feeling words.
Pause & reflect
Week 3: Feelings in motion & rest
Explore how movement and pauses support children.
Pause & reflect
Week 4: Connecting & sharing my world
Bringing together noticing, naming, and sharing feelings.
Pause & reflect
You've reached the end of SAMMY 1. 🎉
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