One of the songs we are singing for the spring concert is called "Everything is Beautiful." So we have been talking about what makes someone beautiful.
At first, kids shared out about what they thought was beautiful about a person...
No huge surprise, but all of our ideas were about outer beauty...at first.
We kept sharing ideas about what made someone beautiful and all of the sudden...someone shared that someone's heart could make them beautiful.
The wheels began turning and these thoughtful first graders started raising their hands to share other things that might make someone beautiful on the INSIDE.
Then each first grader stood at the front of the room and we shared out what we thought was beautiful on the outside of the person and then what we thought was beautiful on the inside of that person.
Toward the end, everyone was smiling and laughing. We kept thinking of more ideas about inner beauty. We started talking about evil queens from story books and how it didn't matter how beautiful they were on the outside because they were "down right rotten" on the inside. We talked about how we could tell if someone was being beautiful on the inside.
After our discussion, we brainstormed a new list about what makes us beautiful. Here's what we came up with...
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