A great program!

Our elementary school has a program called "Character Ed", where they teach all of the great character traits to the kids.  Typically the parents volunteer, get trained, then teach the classes.  But, there is a special program for the 5th graders where they get to teach these lessons to the Kinder and 1st graders.  Sydney submitted an essay at the end of last year to apply for this "job", and then had to get a recommendation from her teacher, and was excited to get selected as one of the official 5th grade Character Ed representatives.  Even more exciting, she got assigned to her sister's 1st grade class!

Today was the first lesson, they were to teach the younger kids about generosity.  The girls went and got trained by the official Char Ed team, got together to rehearse their presentation, and then today during lunch they went to present to the class.

Typically the parents don't go watch these activities...but being the official 1st grade class photographer, I had to go ;).  I showed up a bit early to see the girls at lunch...they weren't eating.  They were scurrying around getting ready for this important job.

They literally ran out of the lunch area to go get ready for the big event...I chased them...

They gave some examples of being generous, then gave a few examples of actions, and asked the kids to give a thumbs up or thumbs down depending on if what they said was an example of generosity.

(That's Brooke's thumb up)

Then they did a simple craft with the kids.  Each kid got a fish to decorate...

Then they put their decorated fish on the Generous Fish Tank.  The 1st grade teacher will add sparkly scales to the fish when she sees them doing something generous.

It was a great first lesson!  We look forward to lesson number two next month!