Croftlands Junior School

After the assembly with the infants we crossed the car park and did the same assembly with the Juniors. So after singing Be Happy Sarah asked the children what sort of things makes them happy, a few put up hands to answer.  She then showed a picture of Grace and Martha and asked if they looked happy and if so how can you tell.  The fact that both a holding up their thumbs and have a big smile is a bit of a give away.  Sarah then said that she is so thankful for them that is what makes her happy.  I then displayed a picture of some carrots - plain ordinary carrots - nothing fancy about them - just carrots.  I then said that I am thankful for things like carrots.  The point was we all have things that we look back on a celebrate and are thankful for like birthdays, Christmas and other special times but most of the time we have carrot days - that is ordinary days which is great.  We do however have sad days so the next picture was a box of tissues and during our sad days we should think about those happy days to help us through them because we can look at them and be thankful for those happy times.  Following the talk we sang So Many Ways because it mentions about being thankful.  Then Sarah close in prayer.