We Listen to Our Bodies
We Listen to Our Bodies

We Listen to Our Bodies

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3 - 5
Reading age
36
Page count
25
Words per page
AD490L
Lexile measure
Mar 5, 2021
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Deja helps young children recognize their emotions by listening to their bodies Body awareness is a key foundation of consent. We Listen to Our Bodies gives children a vocabulary to understand and communicate their feelings, develop personal boundaries, and build their social and emotional skills. Through body awareness and recognizing how emotions physically manifest, young children can listen to their bodies for clues about how they’re feeling. Their bodies might feel shaky when worried or like one big sigh when calm and relaxed. By recognizing that physical sensations are trying to communicate something, children can understand when they feel unsafe, calm, or in need of healthy touch. We Listen to Our Bodies follows Deja and her preschool classmates as they learn to build emotional self-awareness by listening to the physical cues of their bodies. Using the book as a read-aloud, educators and families can model the language Deja’s teachers use to support children as they learn body awareness. The author, who hosts workshops and trainings on teaching consent for families and early childhood educators around the country, offers additional activities in the back of the book. Digital content includes a song from Peaceful Schools with downloadable MP3 files and sheet music. We Say What’s Okay Series Centered around a class of preschoolers, the We Say What’s Okay series helps teach young children the social and emotional skills they need to understand the complexities of consent. Each book covers a consent theme, such as how to recognize the physical sensations that emotions create, look for body language cues, ask for and listen to choices, and know that our bodies have value. With believable, everyday situations and diverse characters, children can see themselves and others reflected in each story–and develop a vocabulary to communicate consent and feelings. Every book in the series is accompanied by a song from Peaceful Schools with downloadable MP3 files and sheet music.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781631985003
    Publication Date
    March 5, 2021
    Publisher
    Free Spirit Publishing
    Original Publication Date
    January 1, 2021
    Page Count
    36
    Words Per Page
    25
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    3 - 5 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2020022501
    Lexile® Level
    AD490L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~M
    Est. ATOS® Book Level
    ~3.3

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