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Week 36

Foundation – Grade 2·Foundation · Year 1 · Year 2

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Week Thirty Six nurtures the life skill of gratitude, drawing inspiration from Saturn and its beautiful rings. Throughout the week, students explore the idea that thankful thoughts create connection, joy, and a sense of belonging. Activities such as Gratitude Balloon Toss invite children to share what they’re thankful for in a fun, movement-filled way, while My Thankful Hand provides a creative space to reflect on the people, places, and moments that matter most. Students also learn to connect emotions with movement in Stretch and Say Thanks, and practise giving through Thank You Space Power Cubes, discovering that gratitude can be spoken, drawn, moved through, and shared with others.

Together, these activities help students recognise gratitude as a powerful and uplifting life skill. They experience how appreciation can calm the mind, strengthen relationships, and brighten everyday moments. Guided by the lessons of Saturn, students begin to understand that gratitude works like a ring, circling outward to others before returning to us even stronger. Week Thirty Six encourages kindness, thankfulness, and connection, helping students build habits of gratitude that can shape a positive classroom culture and enrich their lives at home and beyond.

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Gratitude Balloon Toss
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My Thankful Hand
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Stretch and Say Thanks
Gratitude
Thank You Space Power Cubes
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Personal & Social Capability and HPE Version 2.0, VCAA, used by Victorian schools.

PSC / SELPersonal & Social Capability
Play
  • VC2CP2S04The importance of continued effort when faced with unfamiliar or challenging situations, including how it can help to try new things.
  • VC2CP2O03Strategies for making and keeping friends; how actions and words can help or hurt others; and when, how and why behaviour should be modified.
Written
  • VC2CP2S03Actions for supporting personal strengths useful for school and broader life; actions for supporting developing awareness of personal interests.
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Gratitude
  • VC2CP2S01Verbal and non-verbal ways to recognise, name and describe emotional responses and situations associated with them.
  • VC2CP2O05Situations where conflicts might occur between individuals, and appropriate and inappropriate behaviours and attitudes.
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