The Big Idea for December is Compassion.  Compassion means caring enough to do something about someone else’s need.  For this character trait, students were divided into 6 groups. Each group was given one pair of shoes. The groups were given 5 minutes to construct a scenario about the person who might wear the shoes who has fallen on hard times or who is going through a difficult time.  After five minutes, one person from each group related the story to the class and how they could show compassion to that person.  When time allowed, students were given a bumper sticker sized sheet of paper to make a bumper sticker about Compassion.  As they were working, the following video was projected on the white board: