WE'RE BETTER TOGETHER

Name: WE'RE BETTER TOGETHER
Author: Eileen Spinelli

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

★★★★★ Loved by families

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♥ This book teaches: Cooperation. choosing the group over the self.

Before, During & After Reading

Guiding Questions for Parents.

Definition of Cooperation for 4 - 7 year olds: Cooperation happens when two or more people help each other to make something good happen. It can also apply to animals or parts of a whole that need each other and work together. An example of this is the human body – all the parts work together to make you healthy. In a nutshell: Together we can do more. Summary: Examples of how we’re better together entertain and inform readers about the benefits of community and cooperation. Children get new ideas about how to contribute their actions to making life better. The narrator, a young girl, tells the story with confidence and excitement - she is a good role model! Lesson Objectives:

Students feel encouraged to try out some of the ideas in this book. They are reminded to contribute their actions and words to making life better, because it helps others - an added bonus is that the giver feels good, too.

Guiding Questions:

What does “we’re better together” mean?
Does everyone help clean up in your classroom and family? What are some of the ways you help out at school and home?
Do you have grandparents or other relatives, like aunts and uncles, who need your help? If so, what do you do for them?
Do you help take care of any pets? If so, what do you do?
Did you ever help someone find something that was lost?
Did anyone ever help you find something that was lost?
Did you ever make something with friends or family members?
Do you like to dance, make music with others?
Did you ever do something to help your community, like pick up trash or contribute to a food bank?
Have you ever been scared and someone helped you feel safe?

🌿 Virtue Connection: Cooperation means choosing to contribute to something larger than yourself.

About the Story.

This guide is part of the Values & Virtues library, a free collection of 400+ book guides and activities organized around 12 core virtues for children from pre-K to 6th grade. Each guide includes Guiding Questions designed to open a real conversation with your child in 10 minutes or less.