Gratitude Preschool Theme

 Today we talked about gratitude.  We read "Bear Says Thanks".  Then we talked about all the things we are thankful for.  We had fun making a long list and then I pointed out that when we are thankful for something we should thanks especially to our Heavenly Father when we pray.  We sang some church songs, "Children All Over the World" and "I Thank Thee, Dear Father".  I encouraged him to sometimes say prayers where he just says thanks for things.

This Gobble Gobble Pack has a Thankful printable booklet.  Here is one of the pages my son was working on.  He has his brothers and blankets on this page.

Gratitude

 Today we talked a little about gratitude and how we can express our gratitude to others.  All month we have been doing Gratitude Leaves this year again.  I do this with all of my boys.  Each day they write down something they are grateful for.  I hope it is a good reminder of all the things they can and should be grateful for.  We leave the leaves up throughout the month of November, but I hope they remember it all year long.

I told my son many things I am grateful for and why.  I included how grateful I am for him and told him many reasons why I am grateful for him. I also told him that when we are grateful for things and people we should say thank you.  We read "Bear Says Thanks" by Karma Wilson.

I also told him that we can thank our Heavenly Father for all the things we have in our life we are grateful since they all come from him.  We sang several church songs to go along with this idea including "My Heavenly Father Loves Me", "Children All Over the World", and "I Thank Thee, Dear Father".

Then my son drew pictures of things he was grateful for from this printable book I found in this Gobble Learning Pack.

All in all it was a pretty low-key day, but I hope it is something that sticks with him just the same.

Gratitude Leaves

I have been a horrible blogger.  I haven't blogged about our preschool adventures in over a week.  We've been doing stuff, I just haven't posted about it.

Last year we did these Gratitude Leaves to count our way to Thanksgiving.

We are doing it again this year.  I decided to make a little banner to go on the wall above all of our leaves.

I meant to post this earlier but I have been a slacker.  Anyway, the boys have fun with it.  My kindergartener is writing the things he is grateful for himself.  (my preschooler still write rather big to fit the words on the smalls leaves).  You could have them draw a picture though.