Respect and Take Care of Things

Name: Respect and Take Care of Things
Author: Cheri J. Meiners

A story that explores respect and opens a conversation with your child.

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♥ This book teaches: Respect. seeing the worth in every person.

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Guiding Questions for Parents.

Definition: Showing respect means to use words and actions that show we care about all people and things. In short: Value others, honor differences. Summary: The narrator, a young girl, shares examples of how and why she shows respect at home and outside of her home. Lesson Objectives:

Students apply what they learned about respect at school and at home. They demonstrate (a) an ability to put things away after using them because everything has a place, (b) a willingness to help clean up, (c) an awareness of what is safe to use without supervision, (d) a regard for leaving no trace behind when out in nature, (e) a heart to voluntarily participate in recycling, reusing, and cleaning up the environment, (f) respect for other people’s property and public property.
Teachers can reinforce these behaviors by creating a system that draws awareness to some or all of these points. Refer to the “Clothespin Respect Chart” in the activities if you need a useful tool.

Guiding Questions:

Look at the pictures on the first and second pages of the book. Can you see any differences between the two? What is different?
What does the girl in the story say about why she wants to put things away?
When we’re sharing things at school, what’s one reason to put things away after we finish using them?
How can we make sure that things, like pencils, and art materials last longer?
Do you need to wait until you’re older to use some things? What things do you need to wait to use?
When you’re taking a walk out in nature, you may have heard someone say “leave no trace”? Do you know what that means?
Do you ask permission when you want to play with someone else’s thing?
Do you let others play with or use your things? Does it feel good when they ask your permission? What if they don’t - how do you feel?
Do you leave things alone that belong to your parents or other family members, even though you may be curious about them?
Have you ever broken something that belonged to someone else? What happened? Were you able to apologize? Was it hard?

🌿 Virtue Connection: Respect means seeing the worth in every person.

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Respect and Take Care of Things

by Cheri J. Meiners

Guiding Questions

Students apply what they learned about respect at school and at home. They demonstrate (a) an ability to put things away after using them because everything has a place, (b) a willingness to help clean up, (c) an awareness of what is safe to use without supervision, (d) a regard for leaving no trace behind when out in nature, (e) a heart to voluntarily participate in recycling, reusing, and cleaning up the environment, (f) respect for other people’s property and public property.
Teachers can reinforce these behaviors by creating a system that draws awareness to some or all of these points. Refer to the “Clothespin Respect Chart” in the activities if you need a useful tool.

Guiding Questions:

Look at the pictures on the first and second pages of the book. Can you see any differences between the two? What is different?
What does the girl in the story say about why she wants to put things away?
When we’re sharing things at school, what’s one reason to put things away after we finish using them?
How can we make sure that things, like pencils, and art materials last longer?
Do you need to wait until you’re older to use some things? What things do you need to wait to use?
When you’re taking a walk out in nature, you may have heard someone say “leave no trace”? Do you know what that means?
Do you ask permission when you want to play with someone else’s thing?
Do you let others play with or use your things? Does it feel good when they ask your permission? What if they don’t - how do you feel?
Do you leave things alone that belong to your parents or other family members, even though you may be curious about them?
Have you ever broken something that belonged to someone else? What happened? Were you able to apologize? Was it hard?

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