Today's #TakingCareThurs featured book, Are You Grateful Today? is book #5 in the Becoming a Better You! series by Michigan author, Kris Yankee (@KrisYankee). With today being Thanksgiving, it seemed like the perfect "taking care of ourselves" character trait to focus on! When I talk to kids about being grateful, I often interchange the word "thankful" because they truly do understand what it means to be thankful. Kids are taught from an early age to say "please" and "thank-you," but gratitude goes beyond just thanking someone for something we have received. This book does a great job of pushing kids to think beyond just staying "thank-you" and to truly embrace the gratitude attitude!
Gratitude means appreciating yourself and others, noticing and being grateful for our food, clothes, and homes; appreciating our teachers and being thankful for all we learn; looking deep inside and thinking about what are talents are and being thankful for them; loving our strong bodies and our hair, face, etc.; and appreciating the rewards we get when we work hard to attain a goal. Kris Yankee does a great job of helping students understand what it means to be grateful with all of these examples and more.
Gratitude means appreciating yourself and others, noticing and being grateful for our food, clothes, and homes; appreciating our teachers and being thankful for all we learn; looking deep inside and thinking about what are talents are and being thankful for them; loving our strong bodies and our hair, face, etc.; and appreciating the rewards we get when we work hard to attain a goal. Kris Yankee does a great job of helping students understand what it means to be grateful with all of these examples and more.
At the end of the book, she includes reflections and tips for creating grateful kids. You can read more about her books by following High 5 for Character (@Hi5forCharacter) on Twitter or by visiting the High 5 for Character website.
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