LESSON: 2
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Introduction: Introduce to the children the concept of 'Everything is a gift'.
Goals: To make the children realize the fact that everything is a gift and that we have to show gratitude towards our body.
Click: Everything is a gift
About the topic: Receive every small thing in life as a gift, for example: When you take your plate to eat, see the plate as a gift. We never see things as gifts. Everything is taken for granted. We only look at those who have a diamond ring on their finger. We never look at those who don't have fingers that is the problem, which is why we don't feel anything in our life is a gift. When we start feeling grateful for small things, our whole sensitivity will increase. We will become more refined. Our whole attitude towards life will move to a different plane. Remember the person who is not thankful for small things will never be thankful for big things either. Even big things, will be taken for granted. Currently, we feel we have a right to everything that we receive because of this attitude, we miss seeing the benevolence of existence. We remain insensitive to the gifts showered upon us by existence. If we sensitized ourselves with gratitude, we would never take anything for granted. When sensitivity happens, every moment passes in deep awe of the happenings in existence. When we take things for granted our mind will have a dead pattern that is constantly repeating "what next". When we are able to look at things with wonder filled attitudes, we will be full of gratitude and fulfillment.
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[Figure: Gratitude icon]
Assessment:
- How do we receive every small thing in life?
- When will our sensitivity increase?
- What happens when a person is not thankful for small things?
- Name a few people and a few things that you are grateful for?
- When do we get 'what next' attitude?
- What were the gifts you received in your life?
Art of the Day - Rock Painting
Materials Needed: Rock, Poster colors, Painting brush
Procedure: Give each child a rock and encourage them to color the rock beautifully using different poster colors. They can appreciate the beauty of the cosmos and express their gratitude towards the cosmos and elements of cosmos.
Inference; Everything is beautiful. Even the simplest thing becomes valuable when we have gratitude. Even the most precious things become simple when we miss gratitude.
Evaluation: Evaluate their language skills by asking them to share their experiences.
Conclusion: When we have gratitude in our inner space, our inner space expands like a galaxy.
Activity of the day:
Assignment: Try to take the students to visually challenged and auditory challenged (differently able) School in your neighborhood and ask the children to come back to class and put down their thoughts.
Work shop - 1
Topic of discussion Write a letter to your friend who you hate very much Write good points about them and give it to them
Explanation: Encourage each child to write a letter to their friend or any other person whom they hate a lot. They have to write only good points about them. Encourage each child to give the letter to whomever they wrote.
Inference: This work shop enables them to understand there is always good in bad and bad in good. There is always strength in weakness and weakness in strength. Have gratitude towards everything.