Moral Tales, Week #???

Sunday May 18th was the last day of RE for this year, and thus my last day teaching the Moral Tales curriculum -- probably ever! (We are switching to a workshop model next fall instead of the standard yearly/weekly model, you see.) Anyway, the conceit of this curriculum is to teach kids how to decide what the good and right thing to do is, in any given situation, and then how to actually do that thing even if it's difficult. So each lesson focuses around something like generosity, cooperation, respect, empathy, nonviolence, courage, perseverance, etcetera, all helpfully illustrated by the Moral Compass poster we kept up on the wall of the classroom.

So yesterday, we made small, portable versions of that compass for the kids to take home as a reminder. The compass needle does actually spin -- it's held on with a button and a bit of wire. I ended up with a slightly defective photocopy and had to write the label on the arrow myself, which is why that's in slightly different handwriting from the divisions of the compass.



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