Happy Thanksgiving Business Educators!

During Thanksgiving, I would have my classes create cards for all of the faculty saying "thank you" as well as a banner for the teachers' workroom and my FBLA chapter would bring in treats for the teachers' mailboxes to say "thank you".

I always had my students work on a community service project the days leading up to Thanksgiving. We did a "Warm Up for Winter" clothing campaign to bring to the shelter. My classes worked on the promotion of the project (flyers, e-mails to the teachers, notecards, table tents, hallway decorations - mittens hanging from the ceiling, created boxes for the clothing to go in, and a spreadsheet to tally what items we received as well as their estimated tax value.

For their reflective journal that week, we would read the "Giving Tree" and they would reflect one someone in their life who had giving up everything for them to be happy. Some students wrote poems or notes to that person instead of a journal and gave their work to the person on Turkey Day.

Please share what you have done with your students to instill the value of thankfulness.

Happy Teaching,
Georgia Business Education