Dec08
HOLIDAY EDUCATION: Emphasize the Giving — Not the Getting — This Holiday Season by Gary Hopkins from EducationWorld.com
Are your students too focused on the “gimme” elements of the holiday season? Teach about the true meaning of the season by emphasizing the giving over the getting. Included: Ten classroom activities that focus on doing good things for other people!
Christmas trees spring up in shopping malls even before the trick-or-treaters have arrived at your doorstep.
The gifts — even kids’ toys — grow more sophisticated and more expensive each year.
TV ads scream out buy, buy, buy! — as they compete to out-scream one another…
Getting caught up in the commercialism of the holidays is easy — but teachers are in a unique position to remind students that holiday time is as much about giving as it is about getting. Lessons in holiday-giving present models of good citizenship for a new generation; and giving unselfishly can generate good feelings that students will carry with them for a lifetime!
