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What Are Qualities of Good Citizenship?

Respect, responsibility, honesty, leadership and kindness are all qualities of good citizenship!

What are Qualities of Good Citizenship?

Honesty

Honesty means to tell the truth.  People can trust us when we tell the truth.  Being honest is being fair and helps us to all get along.

Responsiblity

Responsibility means doing what we are supposed to do.  This could be doing schoolwork, chores, and making good choices.

Leadership

Leadership means making good choices that are an example to others.  It means helping others to achieve a goal.  Listening to others, being kind to others, and showing a good example are all ways of showing leadership.

Good Attitude

A good attitude means being positive and cheerful about things.  A good attitude is being kind to others..  Being willing to try even when things are difficult is a good attitude.  A good attitude is working hard to reach our goals.  

Respect

Respect is treating others in a positive way.  Respect means treating others the way we would want to be treated.  Respect means things well, taking care of things and places.  

Problem Solving

Problem solving means to find ways to make things work.  We can find ways to reach our goals, do our responsibilities, and get along with others by problem solving.

Learning

We learn in school, at home and in life.  We can find out more about things, our country, history and people.  Learning helps us to make good choices and reach our goals.  It is good to learn!

Sportsmanship

Sportsmanship is being fair and respectful.  When playing sports r in life, it is important to be fair and respect others and to play by the rules.  This keeps things fair and fun!

Follow Rules

It is important to follow rules.  This makes things fair.  It also helps to keep things well organized and running well.  

Persistence

Persistence means to keep working towards a goal, even when things get difficult.  This way we can reach our goals!   

Participation

We participate by doing things as part of our day and life.  We participate by going to school, doing our work, joining in on activities like sports or clubs.  It is important to participate because it is our participation that makes things happen!  

Kindness

Kindness is showing others respect.  Kindness is being willing to listen to others and understand how they experience things.  Kindness is doing things to help others.  Kindness is understanding people might think differently than we do.

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