CHARACTER EDUCATION: Being Helpful

By the way, the character trait of "being helpful" fits so perfectly with a "Community Helpers" theme.

Group Time discussions might include:
*Have children name things they can do to help someone.
*Remind children that they have classroom helpers every day (review your classroom helper chart).
*How could you help someone on the playground?
*How could you help someone in the Art Center?
*How can you help mommy/daddy/baby sister at home?

Give examples of real life situations and have children tell what could be done to help:
*Alice spilled her juice at snack time and it dripped onto the floor and onto her chair.
*Billy was cutting with scissors when the teacher said it was clean-up time.  Billy was trying to hurry but his papers were all over the floor and table.
*Mrs. Grimes dropped her pencil when she walked into the classroom.
*Andy was trying to get the tricycle out of the building but the building door kept hitting the tricycle.
*Cindy was putting her puzzle away when, all of a sudden, she dropped it and all the pieces fell out.
*Johnny couldn't find one of his gloves.
*.......And so on...........

Having children create a mural of magazine pictures showing people (especially children) "being helpful" is a great way to reinforce this concept.