SuperNoodle Coping Skills: Go Fast & Slow Page

[MUSIC PLAYING] Hello and welcome, my super noodle friends. I'm so grateful to have you here. Join me today. We're going to have fun laughing, learning, exploring, and letting our imaginations wander together. Super noodle makes learning about ourselves and each other a really cool adventure. We'll get to look for clues, listen to exciting stories, and try new things so we can be our very best selves. Join the adventure with your friends, relate better to each other, handle tough situations, and get to know your amazing tools, like your thoughts and emotions. Check it out. You're about to enter the Champyverse through the fitness forest to begin your super noodle journey. I'm super excited to introduce you to your friends, the champs. They'll guide us through our Super noodle travels. Each champ is a hero with their own superpowers. They'll leaders on journeys through magical lands. How exciting. Now, let's check in with our hero champ to see where this adventure takes us. Today, we're going to be hanging out with Squeaky LaRue deep in harmony hollow diving into super useful coping skills. [MUSIC PLAYING] Squeaky LaRue at your service, super noodlers. Whoopsies. Was that too loud? Sometimes I get super excited and I realize I might have been a tad loud. So I need to dial my enthusiasm back a. Couple of neat things about me is, I'm half goat and half butterfly. Cool, right? I live in harmony hollow. And sometimes when I get nervous or excited, I make odd noises. [ODD NOISE] But that's just part of who I am, and I like who I am. And also other times, I get super excited and my voice gets really loud. And I have to remind myself to use my indoor voice. You'll see. Oh, wait, are you looking at me? Don't look at me. Sometimes being in the spotlight makes me nervous too, and it isn't easy for me. But I'm ready to put my growing wings forward for you because you're my super noodle friends, and I trust you. [MUSIC PLAYING] Today I want to chat about coping skills and exploring opposites with you. Sometimes we go fast and then we go slow. We can go big and small. So one day, I was playing and feeling false with my pet hummingbird, Mildred. We decided to go hummingbird speed playing tag, chase, follow the leader, and catch me if you can. And fun fact, did you know hummingbirds can flap their wings more than 50 times each second. Wowza. We had been going so fast chasing one another under the waterfall on top of the swing bridge and in between the palm trees all afternoon when we realized we were really tired. It was time to do the opposite of fast. Even hummingbirds have to slow down sometimes. Luckily for me, I brought my hammock along. I tied it up between two trees so we could slow down, take in our surroundings, and even take a nap if we needed to. And you know what? I really needed a nap. [ODD NOISE] Sorry, I was loud again. I used my big voice. My bad. Small voice fits better here. Oh, and those are opposites too. Even Mildred who lives her life always on the go going super fast needs to slow down every now and then too. And fun fact, did you know hummingbirds are the only kind of bird that can also fly backwards? Neat, ha? And Mildred weighs less than a nickel because she's so small. That's so light. We slowed down and got in the hammock. I could hear the water splash spilling off the rocks from above the fall, the wind moving the leaves and the trees, and Mildred humming herself to sleep on my shoulder. Yeah, that's right. Mildred took a nap too. Mildred and I both slowed down, re-energized our body batteries. Breathing. Then we were ready to get going again. And anyone who knows me knows I like to go as fast as much as I like to go slow, and Mildred does too. Changing our speed from fast to slow and fast and slow again is a coping skill after all. [MUSIC PLAYING] We're going to keep flying along and take some time to learn more about coping skills with our friends and our teacher. All righty, let's move, super noodlers. Wings up in 3, 2, 1. [ODD NOISE] [MUSIC PLAYING]