Hughes School Students Learn About Character
Berkeley Heights Public Schools
At Thomas P. Hughes School, students in Mrs. Castellanos and Miss Bellardino’s third grade class recently learned about character traits with an interactive activity around the book, “The Paper Bag Princess”. The primary objective of the lesson was to engage students in an exploration of character traits through the read-aloud “The Paper Bag Princess” by Robert Munsch.
According to Miss Bellardino, “We wanted students to specifically distinguish between physical traits (what you can see) versus character traits (what’s on the inside). To begin the lesson we had students write one word that described them on a sticky note and place it on their head. As they turned to their partners we pointed out, as an example, how we can see someone is small but we cannot see if they are kind. After this, we read the story aloud to them. To end our lesson we partnered the students up in heterogeneous groups to work on a craft. In this craft, students were assigned either the Dragon or Princess Elizabeth from the book and they were tasked with identifying and sorting inside and outside traits. Students put the inside traits inside the paper bag and pasted the character traits on the outside of the bag. To celebrate all of our hard work each student received a crown at the end of the lesson.”
What a unique and creative way to help our students learn the importance of character! Well done TPH!
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