Homeschool Gratitude Curriculum

Home-schoolers use the same missions teachers use in class. The manual, one activity book, and the flashcards fit on the kitchen table. An all-inclusive home-schooler package is available in English and Spanish. Daily schooling can follow the Monday–Friday format. A weekly gratitude block can follow the once-per-week format.

The mission should not crowd the rest of the homeschool day. Stop at the time limit even if the child wants to keep decorating the note.

Monday does not add a new helper. It stays with Mr. Alvarez. Look only. Put a cloth and a clean spot where crumbs were where preschool children can see it. Name Mr. Alvarez, the lunch helper, and say the kindness: he wiped the table so the children had a clean place to eat. It happened at the lunch table. Ask “What did his hands do before you sat down?” Stop at 5 to 7 minutes. No note yet. The mission should not crowd the rest of the homeschool day. Stop at the time limit even if the child wants to keep decorating the note. If they freeze, Point at the clean spot on the table and ask one child to touch only that spot, then say who made it clean.

Keep Tuesday inside 5 to 7 minutes in this homeschool group. Say the line. preschool children tell a partner, “Thank you for wiping our table.” Practice the spoken line twice in the group, then have each child say it to a partner as if that partner were the helper. If the kindness disappears, point back to a cloth and a clean spot where crumbs were. The mission should not crowd the rest of the homeschool day. Stop at the time limit even if the child wants to keep decorating the note. If they freeze, Point at the clean spot on the table and ask one child to touch only that spot, then say who made it clean.

Wednesday in the homeschool table belongs to the homeschool parent. Test the detail. Ask “What would the table have felt like if he had walked past it?” Answers have to name what Mr. Alvarez did, not that the lunch helper was nice. one picture and one question, answered out loud in a small circle. The mission should not crowd the rest of the homeschool day. Stop at the time limit even if the child wants to keep decorating the note. If they freeze, Point at the clean spot on the table and ask one child to touch only that spot, then say who made it clean.

On Thursday, preschool children (about 4 and 5) stay with “The wiped lunch table.” Draft the note. The note can be a dictated sentence. The child supplies the person’s name and the kindness. The adult prints it on the activity-book template so the child can see that spoken thanks and written thanks are the same idea. Aim at “Thank you for wiping the table before we ate.” Most preschoolers dictate. The adult writes the name and the short line. A child who wants to mark the page can draw the helper and trace the words Thank you. The mission should not crowd the rest of the homeschool day. Stop at the time limit even if the child wants to keep decorating the note. If they freeze, Point at the clean spot on the table and ask one child to touch only that spot, then say who made it clean.

Friday does not add a new helper. It stays with Mr. Alvarez. Send it. Children deliver “Thank you for wiping our table.” or the note, then take home this job: Thank the person who clears the table after a meal at home, and name what they carried. A child can say who helped and what the person did, in one sentence, without a joke in the middle. The mission should not crowd the rest of the homeschool day. Stop at the time limit even if the child wants to keep decorating the note. If they freeze, Point at the clean spot on the table and ask one child to touch only that spot, then say who made it clean.

preschool (about 4 and 5): Most preschoolers dictate. The adult writes the name and the short line. A child who wants to mark the page can draw the helper and trace the words Thank you. The note can be a dictated sentence. The child supplies the person’s name and the kindness. The adult prints it on the activity-book template so the child can see that spoken thanks and written thanks are the same idea.

kindergarten (about 5 and 6): Kindergarten children can copy a short sentence and draw the person they are thanking. Many still need an adult to spell a name. The classroom activity book gives extra space so the first note is not squeezed onto one line. The adult writes the helper’s name if needed. The child copies “Thank you for” and then adds a few of their own words or a drawing of the kindness.