Hands are not for Hitting

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Repetition of the same book allows children a chance to really learn the story – it becomes their story by the end of the week! Repetition helps children feel confident and competent as they become able to talk about the story, predict what will happen next, recognize and understand certain words, talk about their own experiences related to the story, and even make up their own story! Based on this idea, try reading Hands Are Not For Hitting every day for several days during the week and emphasize a different concept, word or idea from the book each day. Continue to build on the concept with related activities in small group/center time. An example is included below: Idea of the Day: How We Use Our Hands to "Talk"

Hands are for working together. Hands are for playing, learning, doing, and building. Hands are not for hitting. Hitting is never ok. So what can you do when you and your friend don’t get along? My hands help me clean my spills. My hands help me clean my spills. My hands help me clean my spills and mess; my hands help me clean my spills.

Hands come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Hands are for saying hello. There are lots of things your hands are meant to do. My hands help me dress. My hands help me dress. My hands put on my clothes and shoes; my hands help me dress.

Music/Movement: Take photographs of your special instruments. Place the photographs onto a cube shaped box. Have the instruments and the cube with the instrument choices available in the music area. Children can take turns rolling the cube die to see what instrument to play. Others can join in by dancing or singing or rolling the die to play different instruments.

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While reading the story, demonstrate the suggestions throughout the book: handshaking, clapping, blowing kisses, pointing, etc. Children can practice what we can do with our hands. Hands are for helping. There are many ways you can use your hands to be a helper. How do you make yourself handy? Math: How many hands? Have children measure the size of the objects in the classroom by working in teams to count “how many hands high/long” the object is. How many hands across a door? How many hands across a table? How many hands high is the chair? Record their measurements, then discuss what is the tallest, longest, etc.. While the children are measuring objects, talk about all the different ways they are using their hands. Idea of the Day: How Hands Are Not for Hitting I agree with another reviewer that this book is too long and too much for a child under 2. I’d even go as far and say this is better for the 3 and up range and I wish I would’ve tried the board book first. However, I do like that this is a book he can grow into and have for years to come.