The Power of Thoughts
Thoughts -> Feelings -> ___
Actions/Behavior (LP 8)
In friendship, which matters more: how many friends you have, or what kind?
Quality over quantity. (LP 4)
Our team colour, and the name our whole group goes by.
Green!
Mindfulness asks you to live fully in which moment: the past, the future, or the present?
The present
A mother bit each apple to find the sweetest one for her child, who'd assumed she was selfish. The lesson: don't do this to people.
Judge or assume the worst too quickly.
Scientists estimate the average person has about how many thoughts in a single day?
A) 500–600
B) 5,000–6,000
C) 50,000–60,000
C) 50,000–60,000. (LP 8)
A kind act is a "deposit" in the friendship bank. A hurtful or neglectful act is this.
A withdrawal. (LP 4)
"Going green within" isn't about the environment — name one inner quality it means growing in.
kindness/calm/positivity/joy/helpfulness/love
Real listening means listening to understand — not just listening in order to:
A) Respond
B) Leave
C) Win the argument
A) respond
We cleared cola-clouded water with a nonstop stream of clean water. It showed that staying positive takes this.
Constant practice / repetition — not a one-time fix
In the tale of the two wolves, the one that wins inside you is the one you do this to.
Feed it — you choose which thoughts to nourish. (LP 8)
In our class video, the first-grader supported his friend with cancer by doing this:
A) Running a marathon
B) Shaving his own head
C) Writing a song
B) Shaving his head — a picture of empathy. (LP 3)
Our Day-1 symbol of growing together — giant trees whose roots intertwine to hold each other up:
A) Oak trees
B) Giant Sequoias
C) Banyan trees
B) Giant Sequoias. (LP 1)
The four-coloured-quadrant tool we used to check our mood at the start and end of class:
A) The Mind Map
B) The Mood-O-Meter
C) The Truth Triangle
B) The Mood-O-Meter
Maria's new hat seemed to change her whole life, but what actually changed?
A) Her luck
B) Her perception / mindset
C) Her friends
B) Her perception / mindset
To build a positive mindset, we said to see the glass not as half empty, but as half ___
Full (LP 9)
The heart of true friendship: feeling with a friend and standing by them, even when it costs you.
Empathy. (LP 3, 4)
(Daily Double) — In the blindfold rope game, on "FREEZE!" only one person could speak. This showed why every team needs this.
Clear communication & leadership
You are not your thoughts. You are not your emotions. You are just the ___
Observer
We labelled a bottle with emotions, added powder, and it erupted — a picture of what happens to feelings we do this with.
Bottle up / leave unmanaged
(Daily Double) — The deepest thought-lesson of the year: you can't always control what
happens to you, but you can always control this.
Your response / your thoughts / your attitude.
Of the five kinds of relationships we named, this one is the foundation for all the rest.
Your relationship with yourself. (LP 3)
The teamwork motto we kept coming back to: individual stars matter less than this.
Winning as one
Before you can calm any emotion, you have to do this first thing.
Become aware of it / recognise and name it.
Anthony Ray Hinton kept his joy through years of unfair imprisonment, proving happiness comes from here, not from circumstances.
From within.