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Week 03 · Story Characters

Tuesday

Character traits
// Feelings, traits and how characters respond
⏱ about 15 min

Tuesday: Character traits

Lucy the Ladybug counts her seven spots. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven!"

"A feeling can change fast," she says. "A trait stays."

"A trait is what you are like most days," says Ferris.

"Like kind or patient," says Lucy. "Let us look for traits."

Learn it: traits

A trait tells what a character is like most of the time.

Kind, patient, brave and funny are traits.

Look at what a character does again and again.

Read this: Bennie shares his apples with everyone, every day.

Lucy asks: What is Bennie like? He shares every day. Generous!

Read it

Read it
Hazel's Patient Garden
Hazel the Hedgehog planted sunflower seeds by the Story Stump.
Every morning, she gave them a little water.
Every evening, she checked the soil.
After one week, nothing had come up yet.
Samantha the Squirrel zoomed by. "Are they up yet? Are they?"
"Not yet," said Hazel gently. "Good things take time."
Hazel kept watering and waiting.
Then one morning, tiny green shoots poked up!
Weeks later, tall yellow sunflowers bloomed.
Hazel gave a sunflower to each of her friends.
Samantha gave Hazel a big hug. "Thank you for waiting!"
CHECK IT: TRAITS
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Which word best tells what Hazel is like?
Which clue shows Hazel is patient?
Hazel gave a sunflower to each friend. What trait does that show?
Which word best fits Samantha in this story?
SentenceTrue or false?
Hazel watered the seeds every morning.?
The shoots came up on the first day.?
Hazel spoke gently to Samantha.?
Hazel kept all the sunflowers.?
WHY THIS EXERCISENothing came up for a week. Hazel gave sunflowers to her friends.
PUT HAZEL'S GARDEN IN ORDER
  • What happened first?
  • Tap the cards in order.
1First
2Next
3Then
4Last
FEELING OR TRAIT?
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Hazel waited every day for weeks. Is patient a feeling or a trait?
Riley was sad for a moment. Is sad here a feeling or a trait?
Bennie helps his friends all the time. Which trait is that?
Try it
Pick one friend or family member.
Tell a grown-up one trait that person has.
Then give one clue that shows it.
Draw Hazel giving sunflowers to her friends.

Word Spot: don't, fast, trees

Here are new sight words.

Look at each word. Say it. Spell it.

Don't: D-O-N-T.

Fast: F-A-S-T.

Trees: T-R-E-E-S.

FIND THE WORD
  • Listen to the word.
  • Tap it.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
FILL THE GAP
  • Listen to the sentence.
  • Tap the missing word.
Please ___ touch the hot pan.
The water moves ___ in the river.
Tall ___ give us shade.

Wonderful! Tomorrow we see how characters respond to problems.

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