Guatemalan worry dolls

Guatemalan Worry Dolls
According to legend, Guatemalan Worry Dolls listen when you tell them a problem. You place the doll under your pillow and the worry goes away!

A few people in class have been worrying about different things so this morning we made our own worry dolls and wrote our worries on them. Then we sat on the mat. Each person shared their worry and the rest of the class gave them strategies to deal with the worries. The worry dolls are in book bags ready to go under pillows tonight!

We also learnt to find our happy place. We lay still and imagined hopping on magic carpets. We flew over the school, up Kyle Road, over the city and then into the country. We flew over fields of different and beautiful coloured flowers, over the gentle green sea, then over the blue foamy waves and landed on our island. We walked up ten big concrete steps and came to a big door. It was heavy and creaked as we pushed it open. Inside the room was full of sunlight we saw a door and opened it using the old fashioned key. Inside was our own private room. In our imaginations we looked around, out the windows and we felt happy and warm and safe. Then we left we went out the door, down the steps, over the ocean, over the fields, across the city and then back to UHPS. We can use our happy place to go to whenever we feel bad, mad, angry, sad, scared, worried, frightened and confused. No one else can see our room except for us!