The impact of being grateful for what you have

Did you know that we all have things to be grateful for?

Things that are so small that we don’t take the time to recognize them. Gratitude journals help us pay attention to the small things in life and bring recognized moments of happiness to our everyday.

In this lesson, we’ll chat about the why behind gratitude, and begin our own journey by building our own gratitude journal using Microsoft OneNote.

Join us for this 60-minute lesson as we discover, not only how to practice gratitude and mindfulness, but all the things you have to be grateful for!

This lesson is perfect for students in Grade 3 and above (including you, Teachers!).

What do you need for the lesson?

• A device for each student (Chromebooks, Macs, PCs, iPads or tablets all work!)
• Access to Microsoft OneNote (you’ll be logging in with your O365 account)
• Access to the internet (this is a livestreamed lesson via Teams Live)

How is this lesson connected to the curriculum?

• Language: Developing and Organizing Content, Applying Knowledge of Language Conventions and Presenting Written Work Effectively
• Social-Emotional Learning: The practice of accurately recognizing your own emotions and thoughts. Being more aware of your own thoughts and feelings. Being able to self-manage and self-regulate emotions becomes easier when you are aware of them
• Health/Physical Education:
  • Apply, to the best of your students’ ability, a range of social-emotional learning skills as they acquire knowledge and skills in connection with the expectations in the Active Living, Movement Competence, and Healthy Living strands for this grade.
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and social-emotional learning skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions relating to their personal health and well-being

Next Steps after the Lesson:

Here’s a sneak peak of some of the additional resources your class will receive to continue the conversation after the live, co-taught lesson:

• Goal writing prompts to help your students create attainable and realistic goals.
• A list of self-reflection journals/podcasts to dive deeper into the topic
• Resource on how to create video journals to change up how you communicate your gratitude
• More in-depth lessons on how to use OneNote to amplify student voice

As always, this free lesson will be recorded to allow for flexibility.  Register below and you’ll receive a link to the recording to use when it best fits your class schedule!

This workshop is made possible by Microsoft Canada – thank you!

To register:

• Only educators need to register – think about it as one registration per class!
• Click the “+” to change the quantity from 0 to 1
• Click ‘Get Tickets’ to add it to your cart!
• Head back to the lesson schedule page to add another lesson to your registration.  Remember to head to your CART to add all your details to register!