Name: Thank You Body, Thank You Heart
Author: Jennifer Cohen Harper

Guiding Questions for Parents.

Definition: Someone who is grateful is thankful for people, nature, and things. Stewardship means taking good care of what we’ve been given. In short: Thankful for every blessing, big or small. Summary: Learning Objective: Guiding Questions:

🌿 Virtue Connection: Gratitude means noticing and appreciating what is already good.

Activities for This Story.

Activity: Gratitude, Levels Pre-K, K

Resource: Thank You Body, Thank You Heart - by Jennifer Cohen Harper. Illustrated by Karen Gilmour

Activity: Students listen and follow the video. They respond to each prompt while standing and making up actions to go with the words.

Materials needed: the video; space for students to stand and move according to the prompts on the video

Directions: Explain that students will watch the video and pause at the end of each page to make up an action that goes with the words. Give an example. Choose a page like the one in which the feet and legs are thanked. Ask students to make up an action that could go with that page, such as jumping up and down three times while chanting three times: “thank you feet and hands”! Go through the book, create actions that go with the words, and say thank you for the body part that is highlighted on each page. Do it more than once so students can remember some of the words and actions.

Wrap it up: Explain: “It’s fun to thank our whole body and all its parts at the end of everyday like they did in the story. Today we practiced motions that go with the story. Try to remember to thank all the parts of your body before you go to sleep tonight, just like the mother-daughter pair did in the video. See if you can get a family member to do it with you!”

About the Story.

This guide is part of the Values & Virtues library, a free collection of 400+ book guides and activities organized around 12 core virtues for children from pre-K to 6th grade. Each guide includes Guiding Questions designed to open a real conversation with your child in 10 minutes or less.