Cottage Lane Elementary School

January’s Superpower is Forgiveness!

“Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.”
~ Paul Boese

  • Forgiveness is to stop feeling anger toward someone who has done something wrong.

  • Forgiveness is to stop blaming someone.

  • Forgiveness is to stop feeling anger about something.

FORGIVENESS LYRICS

This month’s read aloud is a poem, New Beginnings.

A new year brings an opportunity to have a new beginning.  We get to start fresh with a clean slate and become better citizens for ourselves and the world. In class you probably made New Year’s Resolutions for school, and some of you may have made them for home.  A resolutions helps us to be better people.

One way you can be better to yourself is to forgive.  Most people believe you need two people for forgiveness, the forgiver and the “forgivee”.   But forgiveness doesn’t require anyone … just YOU!.  It doesn’t mean you have to reconcile with the other person. You don;t even have to say a word to them.  And it doesn’t mean excusing or forgetting what happened.  Forgiveness is something you do for yourself.  It lowers your stress and makes you happier.  Getting rid of negative feelings and negative emotions makes you a better person.

Let’s all get rid of negative feelings and start a new year with a clean slate.

  1. Think of someone from the past that might have hurt your feelings or made you feel bad about yourself.
  2. Write the situation on this brown piece of paper.
  3. Crumple up the paper nice and tight.
  4. You can carry this with you at all times or you can get rid of these feelings.
  5. If you want to practice forgiveness, toss this “stone” away.  It is too heavy to carry it with you.
  6. We will need a Superhero to help take away and destroy all of these negative feelings.
  7. Don’t carry anger with you.  Write it down. Toss it away. Start a new day being happy.

Let’s hear from January’s Super Hero, The Forgiver!

We all promise to find peace in our hearts

in order to bring peace to the world!

 

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