Character Building
Honesty
By Kelly Nelson ©2013 Owlinspireyou.blogspot.com
Books on Honesty Grades K-3
A Day's Work - Bunting
The Empty Pot - Demi
Ira Sleeps Over - Waber
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine - Ness
The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Potter
Too Many Tamales - Soto
What's So Terrible About Swallowing an Apple Seed? - Lerner & Goldhor
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Petunia - Duvoisin
Pinocchio
Ruby Copy Cat - Rathmann
Strega Nona - De Paola
Rooter Remembers: a Bank Street Book about Values - Oppenheim
The Berenstain Bears and the Truth - Berenstain
The True Francine - Brown
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock - Stevens
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - De Groat
I Did It, I'm Sorry - Buehner
Tales of Honesty
Name______________________Date______________
Who? Where/When?
What is the moral of the story?
What happened?
Honorable
Open heart Never tell a lie Ethical Sincere Trustworthy You should always try
Have students make an acrostic poem about honesty. Model how to use words and phrases for each letter.
Name______________________Date______________
H O N E S T Y
I am honest because
As Honest As George Washington
Using the story of George Washington and the cherry tree explain to your students the importance of being honest. There are many children’s books that have the story of George Washington or you can use the story on the follow-ing page. After discussing George Washington’s honesty ask your students why they think it is important to tell the truth. Finish the activity with by having each student create a cherry that can be placed on a tree bulletin board. To make the cherry the student should use the cherry template. First, the student should trace the cherry onto a piece of red paper. Second, the student should trace the cherry onto a piece of writing paper. Third, the student should trace the leaf pattern onto green paper. Have the student copy the front of the cherry onto their copy “You should always be honest because…” Then have him/her write their reason on the writing paper. Line up the two cherry pieces and staple at the top. Tape the green leaves to a green pipe cleaner. Fi-nally, attach the pipe cleaner to the cherry and hang from the class tree.
Cherry Tree Template
You should always tell the truth because...
You should always tell the truth because...
As Honest As George Washington
A Poem by Paul Perro
Little George Washington was a good boy So his mummy gave him a brand new toy.
It was a little axe, a real sharp one, And George thought that it would be lots of fun.
He took the little hatchet out into
The garden, where lots of plants and weeds grew. He chopped at some weeds, chopped them to the ground,
After that he began to look around.
He looked around for something else to chop, He was having a ball, and could not stop.
Right at the bottom of the garden he Came across his daddy's best cherry tree.
He chopped at it with his little hatchet
The tree was big, he could only scratch it. So he tried much harder, chopping the wood,
Until at last it fell down with a thud.
Then George was happy and put down his axe And he sat down and started to relax. Suddenly, a cry, it was George’s dad;
He’d seen the felled tree and was really mad.
“Who has chopped down my lovely cherry tree?” His face was red he was really angry.
George was scared to tell the truth but he knew Telling the truth was the right thing to do.
So George said “Sorry daddy, it was I, I killed the tree, I cannot tell a lie.”
At first dad was cross, then he realized
As he looked into his little boy’s eyes,
George’s behavior had been outrageous
But he’d been honest, which was courageous.
“My boy” said dad, “I’m very cross, but still,
Your honesty is quite admirable.
I cannot punish you because I’m so
Proud that you’re my son. I love you, you know.”
If you’re brave and honest, you can go far,
You can grow up to be a superstar.
Yes George grew up to be one of the greats
A President of the United States!
Honesty Talks Use the scenario cards on the following pages as a tool for discussing honesty. Cut the cards apart and laminate them for long-lasting use. Split your students into groups and pro-vide each group with a scenario card. Have the groups dis-cuss the scenario. Some of the cards are examples of dishon-esty and others are examples of honesty. They should talk about the following things, “Is it honest?”, “Would I do this?”, “What is a better choice?” or “It was a good choice because…” Then have each group read their card to the class and then explain what they thought about it.
Marco cheats on his spelling
test.
Susie budges in line because she
wants to be first to recess.
Honesty Talks... It isn’t her job, but Mia helps
Chan with the ball bin.
Lila asks her friend to do her homework for
her.
Cooper finds a backpack on
the bus and he keeps it.
Nick finds money on the floor so he
gives it to the teacher.
Honesty Talks... Sal finds a letter in the trash so
she delivers it to the teacher.
Dee walks to the water fountain instead of going
to class.
Leah does her homework with her brother’s
help.
Tim writes on the board
without asking.
Honesty Advocate
Honesty Advocate
Honesty Advocate
Honesty Advocate
Honesty Badges Print and cut out the badges. Give a badge to a student if they do something honest and honorable during the day.
Thanks and TOU The material and ideas in this packet were created
by me, Kelly Nelson. It is for your personal use only. If you share any ideas from this packet,
please place a link back to me at
http://owlinspireyou.blogspot.com
Lastly, I would like to thank the artists that help make my packets possible with their wonderful
clipart and fonts:
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