Building Your Own Curriculum With Books (And Songs) For Children And Youth 8.0

Building and Maintaining Relationships

Vestuto, Rhoda Orszag. Kids Can Share: Creative Lessons for Teaching Compassion, Respect and Responsibility. Carthage, IL: Teaching & Learning Company, 2003. Kindness, compassion, respect, responsibility -- children need to understand how important these and other values are. The ideas in this book include stories, Mother Goose rhymes, crafts, role playing, and projects to involve children in discovering how to demonstrate positive values in everyday situations at home and school. Lessons include a problem, goals for correcting the problem, and ways of teaching children to reach those goals by practicing positive values.