J couldn't believe that I was going to let her highlight in her bible as well as add sticky tabs! Each virtue is designated with a color. She looks up the verse, highlights it with the correct color, and then adds a sticky tab so she can find the verses that reference compassion later. The hardest part of this is lining up the sticky tabs! To aid in her learning about each virtue, I am creating mini notebook pages to add to a spiral notebook. If you would like these notebook pages, link is below.
First, I had her look up the definition of compassion in the dictionary. She wrote the definition under the compassion heading of my notebook page.
Then we looked up several of the verses offered for compassion in her bible. She highlighted each verse with the correct color marker. There are so many verses for each character trait that we worked on compassion for the entire week.
I found some free videos about compassion and a song taught in sign language from Character First Education (link below). We watched the videos and learn the sign language song. (This prompted her to ask to learn sign language.)
We also listened to An Adventure in Odyssey episode called The Drop Box. I found it at a Christian bookstore and thought it was a great example of showing compassion. This prompted J to ask to see the movie which we bought from I-Tunes. The Drop Box film is about a Korean pastor who takes in unwanted children that parents feel like they can't take care of. He made a box that opens in his house so babies can be dropped off without shaming the parents. It was an emotional film to see all of these unwanted babies but J loved it. Pastor Lee and his family are tremendous people.
She made a mini book about several ways we can show compassion. She drew her own way that she can show compassion - by helping her baby brother when he cries.
She wrote the ways she can show compassion in her notebook.
She learned that zebras are compassionate because they take care of the young, sick, and old. She made her own zebra craft by cutting strips of black and white paper and gluing them to the zebra outline (template came from Character First -link below).
Here is her completed Compassion page for her notebook. The Compassion header at the top of the notebook page under which she wrote the definition of the word. Ways I can be compassionate header which she wrote several ways she was going to try to be compassionate. Then she added her favorite verse that she learned this week - Jesus, you are my compassionate shepherd. On the back of the notebook page, she glued the mini book she made.
Here is the finished Compassion virtue ring. We will add to this each time we study a virtue. There is a bible verse on the back. For Compassion, I had her color a letter every time I saw her show compassion. We did this for a week and discussed each way she showed compassion and ways she could have shown compassion (especially to her brother Kaleb).
The notebook pages I made are simple. I kept it to a front and back of a notebook page. I created tabs to keep the virtues separated and once we make it to the end of the page, we will start over again at the top.
Links
Character First Education - free downloads and craft ideas plus videos and songs to help teach about compassion.
Meaningful Mama - the idea for the virtue ring cards came from here as well as the I will statements for each virtue. This is a great website if you are looking for virtue/character training ideas.
The Drop Box - trailer and film.
Adventures in Odyssey - an episode called The Drop Box. I couldn't find the episode here but I did find it on Amazon (link below).
Adventures in Odyssey - The Drop Box episode on CD.
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