By exploring the concepts and vocabulary of philanthropy, the students will be able to better understand what it means to help each other and be altruistic.

In Lesson Six: Quilt to Freedom, students will identify a need in the school community. They will work as a group, along with an adult, to propose a solution and carry out a plan of action. In Lesson Eight: Friendly Neighbors, students will make a plan to do something kind for someone who needs a little bit of attention.

Copy-and Paste Class/School Newsletter Information Insert:
Our students are learning what it means to be a philanthropist. A philanthropist is someone who gives time, talent, or treasures to someone. We are reading a variety of books that provide examples of caring for others, sharing, being unselfish, and working for others in the community. Our books will take us to faraway places and times and to the world of make-believe, but the lessons will be real. We can make a difference in the world with our kind acts and unselfish behavior.

Interactive Parent/Student Homework:
In Lesson Eight: Friendly Neighbors, students will work with their parents to select one neighbor for whom they are going to do something kind. They may do the act anonymously or not. (See Attachment One, Lesson Eight: Being a Neighbor.)
In Lesson Ten: George Washington Carver and Sharing, students will bring home a blank rectangle and copy the label of their peanut butter jar. When they return to school, the class will make and discuss a graph showing what types of peanut butter they buy.