Week 2 Gratitude

This week we talked about gratitude. We talked about being thankful to our Heavenly Father for his blessings.  I started by reading the book Thankful Together by Holly Davis.  This book talks about blessings in our day and how we should pray in gratitude for each of them.

After reading about gratitude, we put together some simple gratitude books. We took a walk outside and collected things we are grateful for (leaves, mint, grass, even a rock).  And then we taped them inside our books.  Two days later we did art with stickers, choosing pictures of things for which we are grateful.

What really brought the lesson home for my daughter was singing "I Am Glad For Many Things", song #151 in the Children's Songbook.  After we learned the song she seemed to really understand that we should say Thank You for our blessings.

A couple follow-up activities: at bedtime we list three things we're grateful for.  Putting up a large sheet of paper and making a collage of things we're grateful for.

Later we focused on math, and did number matching for 10 to 15.