Grateful, Thankful, Appreciate

 It is that time of year,  not Christmas, but the holiday before

Christmas- even though Target is already ready for Christmas!  I’m talking about Thanksgiving.

Anyway, our SEL character trait for this week is gratitude.  We have been practicing gratitude recently by writing in our gratitude journal daily after lunch.  It is a way to appreciate , refocus, and get ready for the afternoon.

 Building off of the daily journals,third grade students wrote about all

of the things they are grateful for.  

After reading several picture books and brainstorming at our tables we made a class chain to display in our room to remind us of all of the good things we have in our lives.

If we write things down, we tend to remember it–we want to remember all of the good things that we have in our lives even at the ripe old age 8 years old.

Go out there and be grateful, thankful and appreciate!