Wonder of the Week - What does it mean to pay it forward? How can you pay it forward?

If you’re behind in taxes, you have to give back the money or you won’t be able to live in your house. - Nick

I think ‘to pay it forward’ means if someone pays you money for something, you have to pay it back. You pay it back with the money that they give you or if they just want to give you it they can. - Kaden

I think ‘to pay it forward’ means that you have to pay somebody back and you pay them a lot. - Nicole

I think paying it forward means that you are paying something that you earned to somebody that needs it. - Tucker

I think that ‘pay it forward’ means that you go to the bank and give the bank some money and then the bank gives some of the money back. - Thorsten

Wrapping Up Our Study of Characters

We have officially wrapped up our study of Characters! We learned how to describe characters based off of their actions, thoughts, conversations and feelings. We also learned that characters can change. Characters usually experience a turning point - a action / situation that causes them to have this change. 

The second graders did an outstanding job exploring character change and were even able to identify green or good character traits and yellow or not so good character traits!