LESSON: 1🔗

Introduction: Introduce the topic of 'Gratitude' to the children. Goals: Make the children aware of the meaning of gratitude, essence of gratitude and being grateful.

Click: We are asking for something or the other continuously in our minds.

About the topic: Gratitude is our response to recognizing the abundance of existence. When we recognize that we are lovingly taken care of by existence every minute, we are overcome with gratitude. If you ever feel that there is something missing in life, it is because you feel less gratitude. Gratitude should become the very breath of a person. Gratitude is an energy that harmonizes you with the energy of the universe and brings back tremendous prosperity to you. When you feel gratitude towards everything, it means you feel fulfilled, you feel blissful. So when you radiate gratitude, your energy of fulfillment attracts fulfillment back to you in the form of material gains, good relationships, good health and so on. Gratitude makes you resonate with existence and transforms you into a beautiful human being. It increases the level of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, optimism and energy. Gratitude encourages a positive cycle when one act of gratitude encourages another. Real gratitude can never have a reason. It happens as a causeless overflowing within you. This life itself is a gift that we have received. Just for being, we should feel grateful. We ask for something or the other continuously in our minds. We have always been taught to thank only for what we receive that's all, we have been taught gratitude as social etiquette nothing more than that. We are only aware of the people who are directly responsible for providing and caring for us .We always think, that whatever was given to us was either because we deserved it or because it was an accident. When you live with overwhelming gratitude in you, you have found a space where in nothing else is needed

Assessment: • What is gratitude? • When do we feel something is missing in our life? • Name the energy that would transform you into a beautiful human being. • Does real gratitude have a reason? • When can we easily connect to nature? • Do you think life is a gift? • Does a flower bloom for a reason?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking them multiple questions.

Conclusion: Gratitude is the energy that makes your life intense and exciting every moment.

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Materials needed: Paper, Pen or Sketch pen or Pencil

Procedure: Encourage each child to draw a picture of their country. Ask them to depict their family in a pictorial format. Ask them to talk about how they feel grateful towards their country and family. In which way do they show their gratitude towards their country and family?

Inference: We must have real gratitude towards our country and family. When we take relationships for granted then we miss gratitude. For example when we think my mother takes care of me because I am her child, then we will not have gratitude towards our mother. We have to think what we have done for our country rather than thinking what our country has done for us.

Assignment: Make a list of the people who help in your day to day activities. Go out of your way, and say 'Thank You' to them at least once.