Tattling

Tilly!
Grades K-3rd

Found this one while perusing the internet. Our friend, Mary Keesling, let me borrow a turtle puppet that worked perfectly. I then laminated the turtle and put him on the board in every classroom so the kids could have a visual and the teacher could just give a nod and ask "Telling or tattling?"...which I can't find the picture of right now, but I'll post it as soon as I do.

Tilly's Poem

You tattle on your classmates that is what you like to do,

It's right to tell a grown up if there's something very wrong,
But tattling is different, you are doing it all day long,

If someone hurts your feelings then you have a right to tell,
When someone's causing danger it is right to tell as well.

But tattling on others which will make them really sad,
Is not at all a good idea, it's really kind of bad.

Oh Tilly, little Tilly, you most certainly will find,
That many kids will like you when you 're acting kind