We started today’s jigsaw lesson with the Calm Me exercise to prepare ourselves to learn.

Sitting in a circle, the teacher squeezed the hand of the child on her right. The child then passed the squeeze onto the next child. Then they were asked to close their eyes and pass on the squeeze. The children were asked how they felt doing it with their eyes closed.

The children were then asked to complete a sentence in their Jigsaw Journals: Being normal is……. The children then had to write their definition of what they felt was normal.