Thankfulness

“The NVIV (Next Vista Inspiring Video) series of posts are written by Rushton Hurley and designed to provide students and teachers with fascinating discussion prompts.”

In Thinking Through Thankfulness, Rushton features A.J. Jacobs wanted to thank everyone involved in making his cup of coffee.

He gives the following prompts to accompany this video:

“Try talking to a friend about how many people you can identify who are part of making something you love.

Then try thanking at least some of those people. Did you learn something different from what the guy in the video learned?”

Every morning I write down one thing that I’m thankful for from the day before. I try to make my gratitude intentional and thoughtful. I never thought about making a thankful trail. I think this would be fun to do in a classroom where the class picks one thing to be thankful for. Then the class would brainstorm all the people who had a hand in creating this one thing. Then every day throughout the school year, students could write a thank you note to one of the people on the list.

Please check out the video and think of other prompts you might come up with. Please share.