| CHEERFUL: Good humored; looking on the
brighter side
Vs. Sad
- SUGGESTED READING:
The Happy Baker
The Cheerful Heart
Happiness Hill
Cocoon
- SONGS:
High Hopes
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- Call a relative.
- Happily call the family to the dinner table.
- Enjoy a family walk together.
- Eat in! Have a winter picnic.
- Remember the happy times. Go through family photo albums.
- Find time to play and read without the television.
- Use winter months indoors to organize your home as a family.
- Lead the family in a song.
CLASS ACTIVITY:
- Have students share a happy moment with the class.
- Have students write about a time when they were having a hard time
but stayed cheerful, perhaps when they were losing at a game or
struggling with an assignment.
- Have students make new decorations to make the classroom look more
attractive.
CREATING A POSITIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT:
- Teachers should endeavor to create a positive atmosphere that
welcomes students into the learning environment. Think critically
about how you interact with your students and which of your actions
create a positive, and which a negative environment. Let your
actions be guided by the questions, "Would I like to be a
student in my class?" "Would I treat my own children this
way?"
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds
to be." -Abraham Lincoln
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of
endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it
better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
-Thomas Carlyle
"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent,
the more it remains." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die,
to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness." -Charles
Dickens
Perform a Random Act of Kindness Each Day
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