The word "gratitude" is interpreted as "expressing gratitude to others for their help" in Modern Chinese Dictionary. The Chinese nation is the most grateful nation, and gratitude is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. For thousands of years, the philosophy of "repay kindness and forget enmity, repay grievances short and repay kindness long" has been formed. The vast majority of contemporary primary school students are only children, and they are all little princesses and emperors at home. They only know how to enjoy, but they don't know how to pay. They take care of others for granted and do not know how to be grateful. In daily life, they are ungrateful and ungrateful for their parents' love; The dedication to teachers is also considered to be natural and indifferent; Helping classmates is often taken for granted, which leads to self-centeredness, willfulness, selfishness, laziness, ignorance of caring for others and poor sense of social responsibility. In order to solve the above problems, it is necessary to widely carry out gratitude education activities among primary school students. The ultimate goal of gratitude education is: through thematic education, make students learn to be grateful, enhance their gratitude consciousness and behavior, always be grateful to their parents, teachers, relatives and friends, and society, learn to be a correct person, develop good personality and morality, and be a noble person, a caring person and a person beneficial to society. In order to improve the pertinence, scientificity and effectiveness of gratitude education, in the process of implementing gratitude education, we should adhere to the educational purpose of "student development-oriented", attach importance to students' life experience and comprehensive training of knowing and doing, pay attention to mobilizing and utilizing all educational factors inside and outside the school, actively build a trinity gratitude education system of school, family and society, and constantly explore ways and laws of gratitude education under the new situation. The specific measures can be: 1, and schools should give full play to the leading role. Schools should make use of environmental culture, blackboard newspaper, publicity column, red scarf radio station, campus TV station, campus network and other publicity and public opinion positions, carefully create an atmosphere of "gratitude culture" in schools, compile school-based teaching materials such as gratitude education stories, gratitude behavior guidance and training, and carry out a series of special activities on gratitude education. 2. Families and all sectors of society should actively cooperate with schools to form a joint educational effort. Therefore, primary school students can be organized to carry out a series of thanksgiving education practice activities of "Thanksgiving for home, Thanksgiving for school and Thanksgiving for society". With activities as the carrier, guide primary school students to start from the life around them and find those who care about themselves and are grateful to others, starting with thanking parents, teachers, relatives and friends, from near to far, from shallow to deep, thanking all those who have devoted their efforts and sweat to their healthy growth, providing services and help, and then thanking life and society, and learning to repay parents, teachers, friends, others, schools, countries and society with practical actions.