The Counselor's Corner

 

Character Education Word of the Week:  Truthfulness means habitually telling the truth; a truthful person; faithful to the truth or to the facts.

According to The Changing Lives Character Education Program,       Truthfulness in School Means:

1.  I will tell the truth all the time.

2.  I will not talk bad about my friends.

3.  I will tell the story the way it happened.

Career in Focus:  Photographer use cameras to capture images that tell stories, paint pictures, or record events.

During classroom guidance, the students will:
Do the Character Education Play:  "What A Tangled Web ... A Play About Honesty"
and watch "The Berenstein Bears and the Truth".

Additional Books to Read:
Don't Tell A Whopper on Friday!  by Adolph Moser
A Children's Book About Breaking Promises by Joy Berry
A Children's Book About Lying by Joy Berry
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Honesty:  Values to Live By   by Jane Belk Moncure
Pinocchio
Cheating  by Joy Berry


PBS for Kids:  "Adventures from The Book of Virtues:  Honesty"

Quotable Quote:  "A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth appear like falsehood."               William Shenstone