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Cycle of Virtues - Year 1

with grade level definitions
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September: Respect and Responsibility
  • Kindergarten: 
    Respect is treating others politely and kindly. 
  • First Grade: 
    Respect is treating others with high regard regardless of their race, their place, or the color of their face! 
  • Second to Sixth Grade: 
    Respect is treating others with high regard.


October: Diligence
  • Kindergarten: 
    Diligence is working your very hardest and staying with it.
  • First and Second Grade: 
    Diligence is steady, earnest, and energetic effort.
  • Third to Sixth Grade: 
    Diligence is steady, earnest, and energetic effort.
    OR
    Diligence is doggedly doing your best.

November: Gratitude
  • Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
    Gratitude is thankfulness for the gift of life and the gifts in life.
  • Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
    Generosity is giving without thinking about getting. 
  • Third to Sixth Grade: 
    Generosity is giving with an open hand and an open heart
    .

December: Generosity & Hospitality
     ●  Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
         Generosity is Giving with out thinking of getting.

     ●   Third to Sixth Grade:
          Generosity is giving with an open hand and an open heart.

January: Courage
  • Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
    Courage is doing what is right in the face of fear.
    OR
    Courage is moving beyond fear.
    OR
    Courage is finding the strength to venture and persevere. 


February: Honesty and Justice
  • Kindergarten - Sixth Grade:
    Honesty is truthfulness: loving the truth, telling the truth,and living truthfully in word and deed. 

    OR
    Justice is giving the other his or her due.
    OR
    Justice is making a space for the rights and needs of others.

March: Compassion
  • Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
    Compassion is feeling what others are feeling and trying to help with their troubles.
  • Third to Sixth Grade: 
    Compassion is feeling the pain of others, and acting to end their distress.


April: Forgiveness
  • Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
    Forgiveness is having enough heart to let go of hurt.
  • Third to Sixth Grade: 
    Forgiveness is finding it in your heart to pardon or excuse. 
  • Fourth to Sixth Grade: 
    Forgiveness is freeing yourself from anger and the other from guilt
    . 

May: Hope
  • Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
    Hope is finding the light in the darkness, and trusting in right endings.


June: Heroism
  • Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
    Heroism is taking noble action for a good cause.

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