Suzanne Parker’s second grade class had some fun while participating in the Positivity Project (P2), part of the social emotional learning program. The character strength they were studying was the love of learning.

As a class, they listened to the book, Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty. This is an excellent example of the love of learning for sure. Second-grader Rosie is an inventor of gizmos and gadgets whose dream is to become a great engineer.

 

Her great-great-aunt Rose comes to visit and, although she has had a brilliant and accomplished life, her one unfinished goal is to fly.

 

 

 

 

 

Young Rosie decides she will make her aunt’s dream come true and builds her a flying contraption. However, the invention hovers and then crashes. Rosie considers it a failure; she is embarrassed. But her Aunt Rose sees it differently: before it crashed, it flew! She can build on that success and not look at it as a failure at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosie’s love of learning was the topic for Ms. Parker’s class. Like Rosie, the students made their own flying machines out of paper after watching a video on how to make paper airplanes then went into the hall to let their inventions fly!

 

 

 

Jackson’s plane flew the farthest but the important lesson here was that they all flew, and that is a success!

The message from Rosie and her Aunt Rose: You can only truly fail if you quit.