Virtue |
Definition |
Grade Level |
Beauty |
pleases the eye or ear and lifts the drooping spirit. |
K-6 |
Beauty |
reveals truth and promotes goodness. |
5 |
Charity |
is caring, and working to be kind. |
K-6 |
Charity |
is giving of heart and soul and mind. |
K-1 |
Charity |
is love. |
K-6 |
Charity |
is self-less giving to those in need. |
2-6 |
Charity |
is the root and mother of all the virtues. |
K-6 |
Civic Responsibility |
is doing our part as citizens of a democracy. |
2 |
Compassion |
is feeling what others are feeling and trying to help with their troubles. |
K-2 |
Compassion |
is feeling the pain of others, and acting to end their distress. |
3-6 |
Constancy |
is standing firm in the good. |
4 |
Courage |
is doing what is right in the face of fear. |
K-6 |
Courage |
is moving beyond fear. |
K-6 |
Courage |
is finding the strength to venture and persevere. |
K-6 |
Courtesy |
is showing respect through kindness, politeness, and consideration of the other. |
K-6 |
Diligence |
is working your very hardest and staying with it. |
K |
Diligence |
is steady, earnest, and energetic effort. |
1-2 |
Diligence |
is doing what needs to be done with devotion, dedication, and determination. |
3-6 |
Diligence |
is doggedly doing your best. |
3-6 |
Duty |
is doing our part, living up to our obligations. |
3 |
Empathy |
is standing in another’s shoes. |
K-6 |
Empathy |
is trying to understand another’s thoughts and feelings. |
2 |
Faith |
is trust in the Divine, confidence in the Creator, love of the Living God. |
K-6 |
Faithfulness |
is standing by those we love, those we serve, and what we believe. |
K-6 |
Forbearance |
is patient self-control, waiting and enduring when one would rather not. |
6 |
Forgiveness |
is having enough heart to let go of hurt. |
K-2 |
Forgiveness |
is being able to forget wrongs done to us. |
K-6 |
Forgiveness |
is finding it in your heart to pardon or excuse. |
3-6 |
Forgiveness |
is freeing yourself from anger and the other from guilt. |
K-6 |
Generosity |
is giving without thinking about getting. |
K-2 |
Generosity |
is giving with an open hand and an open heart. |
3-6 |
Gentleness |
is treating others with kind words and mild manner. |
K-6 |
Gratitude |
is thankfulness for the gift of life and the gifts in life. |
K-6 |
Graciousness |
is acting kindly, courteously, and making another feel special. |
K-6 |
Heroism |
is taking noble action for a good cause. |
K-6 |
Honesty |
is truthfulness: loving the truth, telling the truth, and living truthfully in word and deed. |
K-6 |
Hope |
is finding the light in the darkness, and trusting in right endings. |
K-6 |
Humility |
is knowing that I am definitely not perfect. |
K-6 |
Humility |
is avoiding the temptation to exaggerate our own abilities and underestimate those of others. |
3-6 |
Integrity |
is living life faithful to good principles and high ideals. |
5 |
Joy |
is the fullness of spirit that blooms from the loving heart. |
K-6 |
Justice |
is giving the other his or her due. |
K-6 |
Justice |
is making a space for the rights and needs of others. |
K-6 |
Kindness |
is caring for each other in all we do and say. |
K-6 |
Kindness |
is finding the gentle way to work and play. |
K |
Lives to Learn From |
Learn from those who act well, think well, forge new paths, and seek a better world. |
K-6 |
Love of Country |
means being devoted to our nation — loving its ideals, honoring its heroes, respecting its past, and working hard for a just and noble future. |
K-6 |
Loyalty |
is being faithful and true to our duties, relations, and ideals. |
K-6 |
Magnanimity |
is noble generosity that leaves all pettiness behind. |
6 |
Magnanimity |
keeping your eyes on high ideals and undertaking great deeds for noble reasons. |
6 |
Mercy |
is showing compassion to the enemy, the wrongdoer, or those over whom one has power. |
3-6 |
Patience |
is the power to wait peacefully. |
K-3 |
Patience |
is bearing pains and trials calmly and without complaint. |
4-6 |
Perseverance |
is sticking to it—even when you’d rather give up. |
K-3 |
Perseverance |
is persisting. |
4-6 |
Perseverance |
is pushing on despite difficulty and hardship. |
K-6 |
Prudence |
is practical wisdom. It is choosing the right means to a good end. |
6 |
Resolution |
is being bold enough and firm enough to act on behalf of a good cause. |
5 |
Respect |
is treating others politely and kindly. |
K |
Respect |
is treating others with high regard regardless of their race, their place, or the color of their face! |
1 |
Respect |
is treating others with high regard. |
2-6 |
Responsibility |
is doing your part for the groups that make us whole. |
K-6 |
Self-control |
is stopping to think about my actions before I enact them! |
K-6 |
Self-discipline |
is applying ourselves to our tasks. |
K-6 |
Self-discipline |
is giving the best of ourselves, and saying “no” to our weaknesses. |
K-6 |
Service |
is helping others with a cheerful heart. |
K-6 |
Steadfastness |
is standing constant, firm and unwavering for a good cause. |
3 |
Stewardship |
is caring well for the gifts given us – our life, our world, our talents, & those entrusted to our care. |
K-6 |
Temperance |
is moderation in our appetites, passions, and desires. |
6 |
Wisdom |
is knowledge of the things that matter. |
K-6 |
Wonder |
is to stop and say: “Wow!” |
K-2 |
Wonder |
is to delight in beauty and mystery. |
K-6 |
Wonder |
is to marvel at mystery, to stand in awe before the unexplained. |
3-6 |
Wonder |
is the first step on the path to knowledge. |
K-6 |
Imagination |
is letting the mind take flight, forming a new image of how life might be. |
K-6 |
