Don't Squeal Unless It's A Big Deal

Don't Squeal Unless It's A Big Deal

This is a lesson that I do with second grade

 

Read the story "Don't Squeal Unless It's A Big Deal: A Tale of Tattletales" by Jeanie Franz Ransom. 

After reading the story, show students your poster with the pig on it (I just found a picture of a pig on the internet and pasted it into a word doc then printed it poster size on pink paper. Make sure to cut off the pig's tail) along with the two tails for the pig. One should say Tattle and the other should be blank. Students will then draw a pin the tail on the tattle tail card. If the card indicates a situation the student considers to be tattling then he will pin the tattle tail onto the pig. If the situation is a time when you should tell then the student pins the regular tail on the pig. I blindfold the students with a sleeping mask and let them use double stick tape to "pin" the tail so that it is not dangerous.