Enhance students’ awareness of the benefits of gratitude with this social emotional unit focused on teaching students how to feel and show GRATITUDE in their daily lives. Whether you use this unit during morning meeting or another social emotional learning time, the lessons, discussions, and student journal will engage your students in social emotional development, character education and community building. You'll experience proud teaching moments as your students develop a more grateful heart for the things around them!

This unit is also found in the all themes bundle of 17 social-emotional learning units where you’ll save 40%.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR GRATITUDE SEL MORNING MEETING THEME SET:

✨ TEACHER SUPPORT

➥ a teacher overview of the GRATITUDE theme with suggested read alouds, discussion questions, activities and extension ideas, and linked online resources

➥ 15 days of printable and editable lesson plans

💜 You'll have more than you need to address gratitude. Pick and choose from the ideas and lessons offered to customize a unit that specifically meets your students needs, or grab the 15 days of lesson plans and print and go!

💜 Some of the suggested picture book read alouds for this unit include: The Table Where Rich People Sit, The Quiltmakers Gift, Thanks A Million, What Is Given From The Heart, and Last Stop On Market Street.

✨ BULLETIN BOARD WITH QUOTES AND KEY VOCABULARY

➥ 5 Gratitude-related quotations

➥ important vocabulary with definitions: gratitude, thankful, appreciation, mindfulness, value, and perspective

➥ decorative quotation posters

• comes in color and ink-saving versions

💜 The bulletin board helps anchor important learning and growth. Displaying key vocabulary creates an established language for your unit and related quotations inspire everyone to internalize an attitude of gratitude. If you implement many theme units, your *growing* bulletin board becomes a display of students' learning as you add new themes!

✨ STUDENT JOURNALS

➥ cover pages with quotations and important vocabulary

➥ gratitude-related discussion prompts

➥ always, sometimes, rarely self-reflection and goal setting

➥ a daily gratitude journal

➥ a self-assessment on beliefs about gratitude

➥ ABCs of gratitude acrostic exercise

➥ template for identifying things I am grateful for

➥ graphic organizers for brainstorming different types of gratitude, ways we can increase our experience of gratitude, and identifying the positive effects gratitude has on our lives

➥ "Flipping to an Attitude of Gratitude" activity

➥ 5 quotation analysis journal prompts

➥ gratitude stories compare and contrast chart

💜Student journals allow students time to process big thoughts and ideas before beginning a discussion. Student journal pages become a record of their learning that can be referenced in the future!

✨ DIGITAL COMPONENTS

➥ Gratitude SEL Teacher Slides (Google Slides)

➥ Gratitude SEL Notebook for Students (Google Slides)

➥ Editable Lesson Plans

💜Implement this unit digitally or use the teacher slides to display your lessons + capture student responses to discussions.

With these GRATITUDE SEL Morning Meeting Activities, you are able to incorporate social emotional development and classroom community building while targeting common themes in literature and your grade level's ELA standards. Students who experience theme-based morning meetings develop a strong understanding of themes in literature because this and other ELA skills are integrated into the morning meeting routine!

Ignite your students’ interests and growth with discussions and experiences specifically designed to strengthen their social emotional development and gratitude skills!

You won't be disappointed in the time you spend with these upper elementary social emotional/morning meeting lessons!

➥ Learn more about my Framework for Theme-Based Morning Meetings and if you have any questions, please reach out at tarheelstateteacher@gmail.com or use the Q/A here!

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Kindness Theme

Compassion Theme

Conflict Theme

Perseverance Theme

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Integrity Theme

Compromise Theme

Happiness Theme

Goal Setting Theme

Individuality/Be You

SEL Morning Meeting Theme Set #3

Friendship Theme

Courage Theme

Intrinsic Motivation Theme

Managing Emotions Theme

Responsibility Theme

Growth Mindset

Gratitude

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