February’s Superpower is Compassion!

• Compassion is the sympathetic concern for the suffering of another.
• Compassion is the emotion that one feels in response to the suffering of others that motivates a desire to help.
• Compassion is a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry, hurt, in trouble, etc.

Lyrics – You’re a Grand Old Flag
Lyrics – Love Can Build a Bridge

Watch what happens when you care more about others than yourself.
(Click the title below.) 

Compassion is caring more about others than yourself!

Turn & Talk – What are some ways you can show compassion this month? 

Book of the Month:
Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting

“In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family. Marianne, heading west with fourteen other children on an Orphan Train, is sure her mother will show up at one of the stations along the way. When her mother left Marianne at the orphanage, hadn’t she promised she’d come for her after making a new life in the West? Stop after stop goes by, and there’s no sign of her mother in the crowds that come to look over the children. No one shows any interest in adopting shy, plain Marianne, either. But that’s all right: She has to be free for her mother to claim her. Then the train pulls into its final stop, a town called Somewhere . . .”

How will your class show compassion?  You can all be a “Soup-er” Hero!  Bring in a soup can for our local food pantry.  We will have a heart train in the hallway displaying each class and the amount of cans you collect and one other item for the SOCES Food Drive. 

3rd grade– canned vegetables
4th grade– peanut butter/jelly
5th grade– canned tuna, chicken and other canned meat
ALL – One Soup Can

There are many stories of compassion right here in our own homes, schools and community. This month’s superhero, Compassion Twins, reminds us how concerns for the sufferings of others and doing what you can to help them makes a better life for all.