September

Descriptor:

Recognizing the good and seeing the positive
Individual Quality Characteristics identified might be strengths, happiness, caring, kindness and respect

Public Service Announcement:

We Celebrates What’s Right with My/Our World by encouraging everyone to look for the good in people and to search for the positive in situations.

Thought for the Month:

“If you celebrate what people do well, it’s like giving them oxygen and they perform way beyond your expectations.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present." - Anonymous
"Every day is a day to celebrate." - Anonymous
“We can Do Anything” - Terry Kelly
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world” - Anne Frank
“There is something wonderfully rewarding in being part of an effort that does make a difference.” - Brian O’Connell
"The power of choice is my greatest gift." - Anonymous

Suggested Whole School Events/Activities:

Participate in Random Acts of Kindness. (Document found in Additional Resources or online at www.randomactsofkindness.org).
Give out positive tickets to people caught doing something right.
Invite parents to view Celebrate What’s right With the World DVD i.e. on meet the teacher night, at Home and School or PSSC meetings. Share with them how they can support their child/youth’s school in celebrating what is right with the world.
Make a Celebrate journal and circulate it through the class with individuals making entries. Create Celebration Wall.
Drama clubs could identify or develop plays with celebration message.
Participate in the Terry Fox Run. Prepare for Run For the Cure or other community initiatives.

Suggested Classroom Activities:

Make a Celebration Banner and have students draw what they have to celebrate on it.
Make a Celebrate journal and circulate it through the class with individuals making entries.
Participate in Random Acts of Kindness. (Document found in Supplementary Resourcesor online at www.randomactsofkindness.org).
Math warm-up: value your words with positive words adding to and negative words subtracting from total value.
Have students write a short story on what new place or activity they discovered over the summer that they would like to share with others.
Volunteer opportunities for children/youth.
Have students create a positive thought basket which can remain in the classroom so that if a student is having a particularly bad day or if caught doing something positive then they can pick a positive thought. Students in primary grades may just use one word while older students may use phrases or sentences to make up the positive thoughts which go into the basket. They can go on coloured paper to add to the celebration theme.
Create a celebrate time capsule which the class can open in June.
Plan a walk or run to celebrate Terry Fox. (Sept 17th is the Terry Fox Run official date)