Core Virtue Definitions 2020-2021

September: Respect and Responsibility

• Kindergarten: 
  Respect is treating others politely and kindly. 

• First Grade: 
  Respect is treating others with high regard regardless of their race, their place, or the color of their face! 

• Second to Sixth Grade: 
  Respect is treating others with high regard.
  
  

October: Diligence

• Kindergarten: 
  Diligence is working your very hardest and staying with it.

• First and Second Grade: 
  Diligence is steady, earnest, and energetic effort.

• Third to Sixth Grade: 
  Diligence is steady, earnest, and energetic effort.
  OR
  Diligence is doggedly doing your best.

November: Gratitude

• Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
  Gratitude is thankfulness for the gift of life and the gifts in life.
• Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
  Generosity is giving without thinking about getting. 

• Third to Sixth Grade: 
  Generosity is giving with an open hand and an open heart.
  
  

December: Generosity
     ●  Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
         Generosity is Giving with out thinking of getting.
     ●   Third to Sixth Grade:
          Generosity is giving with an open hand and an open heart.

January: Courage

• Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
  Courage is doing what is right in the face of fear.
  OR
  Courage is moving beyond fear.
  OR
  Courage is finding the strength to venture and persevere. 
  
  

February: Honesty and Justice

• Kindergarten - Sixth Grade:
  Honesty is truthfulness: loving the truth, telling the truth,and living truthfully in word and deed. 
  OR
  Justice is giving the other his or her due.
  OR
  Justice is making a space for the rights and needs of others.
  
  

March: Compassion

• Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
  Compassion is feeling what others are feeling and trying to help with their troubles.
• Third to Sixth Grade: 
  Compassion is feeling the pain of others, and acting to end their distress.
  
  

April: Forgiveness

• Kindergarten to Second Grade: 
  Forgiveness is having enough heart to let go of hurt.

• Third to Sixth Grade: 
  Forgiveness is finding it in your heart to pardon or excuse. 

• Fourth to Sixth Grade: 
  Forgiveness is freeing yourself from anger and the other from guilt. 
  
  

May: Hope

• Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
  Hope is finding the light in the darkness, and trusting in right endings.
  
  

June: Heroism

• Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: 
  Heroism is taking noble action for a good cause.