Students will...
Students will...
Explain to students that we will be talking about gratitude, watching a video, learning vocabulary, and sharing an experience about gratitude.
Ask the students:
Inferences and Predictions. What are they? What do we need in order to make predictions?
Watch the following video as a class, stopping it a few times to ask the students:
Practice making predictions.
Bear Does Laundry - Samsung Washing Machine Commercial (funny)
Have students watch this video for the following activity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XA0bB79oGc
Past tense: Give a brief review on how to conjugate verbs in the past tense by playing a matching game.
Have students share a personal experience with a partner about gratitude in the past. Remember to use past tense and some of the above phrases.
Write down or share with someone three things you are grateful for today.
Tuesday:
Write a thank-you note to the anonymous donor that gave each student $200. Explain what a thank-you note looks like and take some time for the students to write their notes. Please bring those to the office before Wednesday at 3pm. They will be bound in a book, so doing this on normal paper would work great.
Wednesday:
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin said, "Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul an a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable." (retrieved from https://www.dailymormonthoughts.com/2015/11/joseph-b-wirthlin-on-living-in-gratitude.html
Read this quote as a class and think of a person in your life that is an example of that. Share with a partner. It can be a story or a description of the person or how you feel when you are around that person and why (Teacher models first).
Thursday:
Read the following proverb with the class.
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
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