We recently began exploring Michelle Warner Garcia's social curriculum. This frames behavior as doing things that are expected (what we anticipate other people will do) or unexpected behavior (things that we do not think other people would do). We use the terms expected and unexpected, but are also labeling these actions as things that make us think warm and fuzzy thoughts or things that make us think clunker thoughts. We can then place these warm, fuzzy things (we use pom poms) and the clunker thoughts (we use plastic tiles) in a jar and keep track of how these actions are making us feel. In an example two children were yelling at each other and fighting over a toy during play time (we put a clunker in the jar). Then they talked it out and decided that one child could ask the other child for a turn when he was done (a warm fuzzy).
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