Goldilocks Character Study

We are learning about characters. We read The Three Bears and came up with descriptive words about Goldilocks. We made sure to describe her physically as well as her actions and feelings. Here is the bubble map we created as a class and some sentences that the students wrote about Goldilocks.

 

Entertain/Inform

We are learning about purposes of reading and how to tell the difference between a book that is for entertainment and a book for that is to inform. First, we looked at some books for entertainment and discussed qualities such as talking animals, fun stories and pictures that were drawn. Then, we looked at some books to inform and discussed qualities such as photographs, table of contents or glossary and gives us information. Then we sorted the books by entertain or inform. Finally, we compared a the Three Bears ( entertain) to real bears ( inform). We created a Venn diagram to compare the characters in a entertain book to the characters in a inform book.

 

The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

We read The Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly and used an old lady puppet and animals to shove the animals in the old lady's mouth to help us re-tell the story. Then we used pictures of the characters to order the events in the story. Finally, my students illustrated the main character and the other characters to make a character map. Take a look at our illustrations below.

Silly Sally

We celebrated letter S by reading and doing activities with the book Silly Sally by Audrey Wood. On Monday we took a picture walk and made predictions from the illustrations. Then we read the book and found all the rhyming words. We also identified the main character and other characters and created our own character map. On Tuesday, we identified all the nouns and action verbs and acted out the story. On Wednesday, we learned about alliteration and the students created their own silly character using their name starting with an S instead of their letter. On Thursday, we used character pictures to create flow maps to re-tell the sequence of events in the story. On Friday, we are going to choral read Silly Sally to our 2nd grade reading buddies and write/illustrate our favorite part of Silly Sally. The kids really learned a lot this week and loved the book Silly Sally.