Students complete activities with the story Spookley the Square Pumpkin. In this holiday lesson, students listen to the story and create their own Spookley pumpkin with Popsicle sticks and paints. They use their character counts traits...

Students help their community. For this character counts lesson, students discuss problems facing the world and their community. They come up with solutions to some of these problems. 

Students interview elderly people in a senior citizen community center. In this character counts lesson, students interview the elderly about how society can be more respectful.  They videotape and watch the interviews together. 

Pupils create a bio-poem for themselves or characters in stories they have read. They explore common character traits.