Sending Encouragement Across the Miles

 Lately we have been noticing how our words can help or hurt.  We can choose to have powerful self-talk, and we can use our words to encourage others. Our words are powerful!

I shared the following quotation with Room 408:

We read the book The Bad Seed by Jory John and noticed how the bad seed became what he told himself he was. When he said he was bad he would do more bad things, when he said he was doing well he did kind things.

We talked about how positive self-talk is very important, especially when things get tough.  I shared with Room 612 how my son, CJ, is in Basic Military Training right now. (CJ is in the middle, 3rd from the left).

 CJ sent a letter to me last night requesting that our first graders send letters to his flight. There are some members who aren't getting any letters from home. We talked about how challenging Basic Training is, especially when no one is sending letters of encouragement.

We worked on writing words of encouragement and pictures to Flight 732. Here are a few examples:

We sent over 45 letters!

Tomorrow we will make a ring of self-affirmations to keep in our safe zone, to give ourselves words of encouragement.

Here is a great video about believing in yourself.