P4C for the new year

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Give your students some time to think about new year’s resolutions.

For older students, the stimulus could simply be the words ‘new year's resolutions’.

For younger children, use this story about a squirrel who is having trouble thinking of a resolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPBk3xVRyk

What questions will your students come up with?

Possible questions include:

• Should we always make new year’s resolutions?

• If you make a resolution, how important is it to complete it?

• Is it better to make a resolution that is difficult to keep, or one that is easy to keep?

• What’s better – making resolutions once a year, or making them every month?

• Should resolutions be mainly about yourself or about others?