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Learn Honesty with Leo Truth, Lies & Trust homeschool unit study cover: Leo in his yellow shirt in front of overlapping printable pages like 'The Trust Jar Challenge' and 'Why Do People Lie?'

Unit Study

Learn Honesty with Leo: Truth, Lies & Trust

Grow honest hearts, one true choice at a time

Hosted by Leo, your family's guide for the whole adventure.

Ages 4–9Over 40 pages5 lessonsEarly ElementaryCo-op & classroom friendly ✓

Ages 4–9, roughly preschool through 3rd grade.

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Leo is a regular kid who sometimes wants to tell a small fib to get out of trouble. He also wants his friends and family to trust him. This study walks him, and your kids, through the difference between the two.

What’s inside

  • What is honesty? Five short Leo stories about truth, lies, integrity, and what happens after a mistake
  • How trust is built and why a broken promise takes more than one good day to repair
  • Math with a message: the Trust Tower climb, a Pearl Hunt, a Feelings Graph, and Trust Score math chains
  • Reading, vocabulary, and handwriting on words like honest, brave, scared, trust, and apologize
  • Hands-on science: a paper repair experiment, cause and effect, and how our bodies feel when we’re nervous about telling the truth
  • Creative pages: a truth board game, Leo’s Feelings Heart, the Trust Jar Challenge, and an “I’m an Honest Hero” coloring page
  • Collectible badges and a certificate to celebrate finishing all 5 lessons

How families use it

One lesson a day for a week, or one a week for a month. Pair it with the free Kind Words handwriting pages for extra practice, or with our kindness conversation starters at dinner. Great for homeschool character education, classroom enrichment, or any house where “who did this?” has ever been met with silence.

Kid tested, kid approved. 💙

Honesty, explained the way kids actually get it

What is a lie? Why do people tell them? How does trust get broken, and how does an honest choice start to fix it? Leo works through it in short stories and real-life examples your kids will recognize from their own week.

Character that crosses every subject

Trust Tower math, a Pearl Hunt of number puzzles, a paper repair experiment, a Word Detective page, handwriting on words like honest and apologize, plus a board game and a Trust Jar Challenge for the whole family.

Badges, a certificate, and an Honesty Hero

Kids earn collectible character badges through the five lessons and finish with a certificate of completion. Over 40 pages, US Letter, ready to print the moment you download.

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What's inside this study

The whole adventure at a glance: every subject, page style, and happy surprise in the full Over 40 pages.

Cover graphic for the Truth, Lies & Trust unit study, a 5-lesson character-building study, with Leo waving in front of pages like 'The Trust Jar Challenge', 'Why Do People Lie?', and a 'Trust Tower' craft, labeled early elementary, ages 4-9, over 40 pages
meet Leo, your honesty guide
Reading pages 'Living With Integrity', 'Making Honest Choices', 'How Trust Is Built', 'Why Do People Lie?', and 'What Is Honesty?', each with a short Leo story and talk-about-it questions, with a mom in a pink cardigan presenting them
short stories, big conversations
Math pages 'Climbing the Trust Tower', 'Feelings Graph: Let's Count', 'Steer Into Math With Leo', 'Pearl Hunt Math', and 'Trust Score Math Chain', with a red-haired boy in a striped shirt pointing at them
numbers tell the truth
Language arts pages 'Word Detective', 'Right or Wrong? (Everyone Makes Mistakes)', 'Honest Words & Strong Hearts', and 'Trace, Write & Learn' handwriting for the words honest, brave, scared, trust, and apologize, with a dad presenting them
choose your words wisely
Science pages 'Science of Integrity', 'Science of Trust' with a paper repair experiment, 'Cause & Effect: What Happens Next?', 'How Our Bodies React to Big Feelings', and 'Making Good Choices', with Leo waving beside them
observe, think, learn
Creative pages: a truth board game, 'Fixing Mistakes', a 'You Earned a Badge!' page, 'The Trust Jar Challenge', 'Leo's Feelings Heart', and an 'I'm an Honest Hero' coloring page, with Leo and a friend cheering
badges, games, and a trust jar
'How It Works' graphic on a wood background walking through five steps: purchase the unit study, download instantly on Etsy, print at home or a local shop, learn together, and have fun
five easy steps to the fun
Leo waves beside a speech bubble thanking families for checking out Kind Street Library and wishing them days full of wonder and a sprinkle of magic
may your days sparkle with wonder

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Real pages from the study

Actual pages, up close. The little watermark rides along on previews only. Your download arrives crisp, clean, and ready to print.

Reading page 'What is Honesty? Leo Learns About Honesty': the story of Leo bumping a lamp with his toy cars and choosing to tell his mom the truth, with a watercolor illustration of Leo beside the broken lamp
the day Leo broke the lamp
Science page 'Cause & Effect: What Happens Next?' with Leo's lamp example, a match-it-up activity linking causes to effects, a try-it-yourself box, and a toy car ramp experiment
every choice has a what-happens-next
Math page 'Steer Into Math With Leo!' with toy car patterns to complete, greater-than and less-than comparisons of toy cars and trains, plus-or-minus word problems, and true-or-not equations to circle
toy car math, true or not?
Listening page 'Leo's Feelings Heart': a big outlined heart to fill with small colored hearts for each feeling heard in Leo's story (calm, brave, happy, proud, honest), with a count-and-think tally, and Leo making a heart with his hands
listen for the feelings, color the heart
Handwriting page 'Trace, Write & Learn' with the words honest, brave, scared, trust, and apologize, each defined and shown in traceable gray letters on writing lines
five words worth writing

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Common questions

Can I print it more than once?

Yes. Once it's yours, it's yours. Print it as many times as you like for the children in your own home or classroom, this year and every year after. Lots of families print a fresh copy for each child, reprint a page when the first try becomes a happy mess, or slip pages into a dry-erase sleeve to reuse them again and again. The only thing we ask is that you don't share or resell the file itself, but printing for your own crew, as often as you need, is exactly what it's made for.

Will it work for more than one child, or a co-op?

Absolutely. One purchase covers your whole household, and the pages are built to flex for mixed ages, so a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old can sit at the same table working the same topic at their own level. Here's how to teach a 5- and 8-year-old from one study. It's a favorite for co-op groups and homeschool pods, too: print a set for each child and run the lesson together. (If you're using it across a larger group, just print the copies your own group needs.)

What grade level is this?

It's written for ages 4–9, roughly preschool through 3rd grade. The magic is that most pages flex a level or two in either direction: a preschooler traces, colors, and points to answers, while an older child reads the longer passages, writes a few sentences, and tackles the "why" questions. That's how one study can carry a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old through the same week. If your child is a little older but loves the topic, they'll still have a great time; they'll simply go deeper into the reading and writing.

How do I get it after I buy?

It's an instant digital PDF download, with no waiting for the mail. US families can pay by card right here; the moment the payment clears, your download page opens and a copy of the links lands in your inbox. Those links stay good for 30 days, and you can ask for a fresh set any time from the find my downloads page. Families outside the US buy the very same study on Etsy, where the file waits in your Etsy account. Either way, all you need is a printer (color is lovely, but black-and-white works fine for most pages), regular paper, and the usual crayons or pencils.

What if something goes wrong with my order?

Email info@kindstreetlibrary.com and a real person will write back. A file that will not open, a download link that expired, or a charge you do not recognize all get sorted out by hand. The full details, including how refunds work for digital files, live on our terms of sale page.

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