Honesty The Honest Canada Goose Honk! Honk! If that noise is coming from over your head instead of from a car, it These bird in front of it. Geese take turns in the different kinds of vocalizations and use body Canada geese depend on honest communication for long journeys. CANADA GOOSE
WHAT S THE BIG IDEA? THE BIG IDEA FOR TEACHERS - demonstrate honesty every day because you know THE BIG IDEA AND THE BIG 3 K-2: Are straight with kids. You accept responsibility for your mistakes. You are real, not perfect. them. You teach them that life is about choice. You choose honesty. - THE BIG IDEA FOR KIDS Honesty - Choosing to be truthful in whatever you say and do. 3-5: May: THE BIG IDEA AND LIGHT GREEN Green comes in more shades than any other color. LOOK FOR KIDS SHOWING HONESTY BY: consequences for it HONESTY 02 MAY 2015
HONESTY QUOTES Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. - Albert Einstein THE BIG IDEA IN THE COMMUNITY when we show others how valuable they are by how we treat them. This month we have been - raise the money themselves or use their own al- THE BIG IDEA AND THE STAFF Give each teacher a note that says, Honestly, this year wouldn t have been the same without you! YOU are essential! People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. - Georges Braque No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare ( All s Well that Ends Well ) If you tell the truth you don t have to remember anything. - Mark Twain CELEBRATING THE BIG IDEA IN THE SCHOOL use as drawing entries. Celebrate these kids and the end of the year with HONESTY 03 MAY 2015
K-2 Lesson Plans Whisper to a neighbor what you think it means to be honest. were similar or different to the one written on a better idea of what the word really means. Honesty isn t just a virtue we see in people. Can you think of an animal that shows honesty? Discuss the ways a Canada Goose can remind and Sometimes it can be hard to decide whether or not to be honest. Choose two students to come to the front of the room. One student acts out dropping or leaving Discuss what the student who found the item do and why. You may not be the one to initiate or encourage dishonesty. Have you ever been in a situation when a friend wanted you to be dishonest? one, discuss honest ways to respond. I didn t have time to do my homework. Can I I think the cafeteria lady gave me back three dollars more than she should have. truthful in whatever you say and do. Honesty can be tricky. Sometimes we convince ourselves that we are being honest when we aren t being totally truthful. Like saying you don t have any homework due tomorrow but not saying anything about the huge project due the next day. Look up images of forced perspective appropriate photos to the class. In order to get the whole truth about a situation, you have to hear from different people. One person s perspective isn t always true. HONESTY 04 MAY 2015
K-2 Lesson Plans Honesty can also mean being true to who you are being yourself. If time allows, look up a little about the life of Oscar Wilde, best known for authoring the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde or write it on the board for everyone taken. Today we are going to see how being dishonest can have lasting effects. Ask students if they have ever eaten black licorice and if they know what it does to your mouth. your black-colored mouth. away. We lose friends. That s why it s always best to be honest. Honesty means more than just what you say. It s also about what you do. And honesty is for everyone: kids, parents, teachers, even grandparents! Let s take a look at all the different angles of honesty. slides on your own before class and determine if all the activities are appropriate for your classroom. If not, feel free to skip over certain ones. Have students come to the board to write, draw Telling a one lie is easy. The problem is, all the little lies you have to tell to cover up the big one. into the water. Tell students that represents the original lie. Now, ask students to come up and drop smaller coins, chips, or sinkable objects into the water and try to cover it up. Graph how many times a smaller object lands on and covers the bigger one. All the smaller objects represent the smaller lies you have to tell to cover the big one. HONESTY 05 MAY 2015
K-2 Lesson Plans Today we are going to read a story about a boy who told a lie and had a hard time hiding it! A Big, Fat, Enormous Lie by happened to the lie when the boy tried to hide bigger and bigger and the pressure that builds Make sure you address that our lies won t turn into monsters but discuss how our lies can be just telling a lie. Sometimes asking for help can save us from having to decide between being honest and Too Many Tamales by Gary make tamales from rolled and twisted paper. Together, count the tamales and use them in story problems. Using one object to represent a diamond ring, discuss the probability of each tamale having a ring inside. Let s discuss some practical ways to show honesty. Ask students to come up with scenarios in which they tell you the scenarios, write the situation on one index card and the honest response on another. As the students come up with ideas, memory matching game with the class to see who can match the scenario to the honest act. HONESTY 06 MAY 2015
3-5 Lesson Plans The problem with not being honest, is that it will always catch up with us and trap us. that you re going represent a student and model they did their homework before playing outside, to someone who is not standing next to you. Play until each student has had a chance to pass the yarn. Look at the web of yarn created by the lies. the class to remind students to be honest. Would it cause you to be more honest if there were physical consequences? the consequences are for dishonesty. You can t get away with just telling one, little lie. Being dishonest usually requires you to continue being dishonest until you eventually get caught. For this activity, you will need a large bowl or pan container of water. Now that the lie has been told, you have to keep lying to cover it up. One by one, let students stand above the container of water and drop their penny in trying to cover up quarter, point out that it s not completely covered and the lie is still exposed. always the better choice. Being honest always pays off in the end. The Empty Pot [Show an image of someone with their hand on a book swearing in at a court case] What is this person doing? Do you know what it means? image and what can happen if a person lies while under oath. The oath that is recited can be HONESTY 07 MAY 2015
3-5 Lesson Plans We ve talked this month about how lying will always catch up with us and that we will eventually be caught. The problem is we can never predict when we will be exposed. the soda represents that place where we try to buttons represent the lies that we may tell. Tell students that they are going to drop their buttons into the soda. This represents when we try to hide our lies. They will sink to the bottom but should pop back up to the top. students divide the soda into small bathroom [Hold up a mirror] How is this like honesty? Let students share answers of how a mirror is like create their own similies where they have to compare honesty to an object. Have students share their similies. We ve been talking about how to be honest this month, but in real life how easy is it to put honesty into practice? boys who had the opportunity to be dishonest, college-athletes--remarkable-honesty-caught- for the boys to take their stuff and leave without Have students create their own scenarios of A popular fable about honesty is The Boy Who Cried Wolf. As we watch this version, decide for yourself if the shepherd was lying on purpose or not and does that change the outcome? HONESTY 08 MAY 2015
3-5 Lesson Plans There are lots of different ways to look at honesty. Students will do the activity together as a group Station 1 Students will write the word honesty in the middle of a piece of paper. Around the word, they will write as many synonyms as they can for the word honesty. Station 2 Use the following website to choose on separate slips of paper, fold and put in a cup. Students will draw one of the quotes, glue it to a piece of construction paper and write their interpretation of what the quote means. Station 3 On a piece of paper, students will write the word honesty down the left hand side and create an acrostic of the word. Station 4 This activity will require a computer and headphones. Show the following clip WCxSIfOYmAU. Towards the end of the clip, the mom says Sometimes when we lose, we win. people. People who are honest are well respected. They are trusted and therefore are looked up to by many Prior to this activity, print out a picture of each of the following or create a powerpoint slide with an answer to the following question: What do them the answer yet. Show the following video: shows several examples of people who showed importance of honesty as shown in the different examples in the video. have a monument built in their honor, they can Have students discuss what they think that means. and have them write what they have learned HONESTY 09 MAY 2015