First we sang "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" and then I asked everyone if they could guess what we were going to talk about, based on those lyrics. Eventually someone guessed being grateful :)
We then had a grateful race and we broke into 3 teams of 2 people and tried to think of as many things as we could that we are grateful for in 2 minutes. Then we counted them up and the team with the least number went first. If you had the same thing on your list, you crossed them off, etc. until everyone had read every unique thing they were grateful for.
We then talked about how a great way to feel better when upset, frustrated or angry is to stop and think about our blessings. We came up with a code word so that during this week, if anyone was upset or angry, we could use our code word to kindly remind them to say something they are grateful for in that moment, to help cheer them up! We decided the code word would be "but at least..." Then we all took turns practicing pretending to cry and then someone would remind them with the code word, and they'd stop crying and say, "but at least I... get to have a cupcake tonight!"
Hopefully it works!
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