Our principal started the "Principal's Principles" this week and each week there is a different theme/topic/character building trait that she discusses during morning announcements and we are expected to follow it up with a 5-10 minute discussion with the students. We were given a whole binder with discussion starters to follow along with.
This week we kicked it off with Having a Positive Attitude. I, personally, was pretty excited about this topic....so I took these discussions pretty seriously.
On Thursday we talked about the quote "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." However, it wasn't enough just to talk about it...we actually made lemonade!
(NOTE: If you want to get your kids excited about something- make lemonade!)
We decided that every time someone in my class had a negative attitude we would add more lemons (to make it more sour) and every time someone had a positive attitude we would add more sugar (to make it more sweet)....at the end of the day we'd try our lemonade and we would be able to see how our day went.
I can't even explain how excited and motivated my kids were to have sweet lemonade at the end of the day. And lucky for me I had Open House the same night and our parents got to try our "Positive Attitude Lemonade" so they could 'taste' how our day went!
I have to say....I started with a very 'lemon' Monday and ended the week with lots of lemonade!
-Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing
I'm so glad you and your fourth graders had such a "zesty" day! :)
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