Ozzie
NOTICE — *look around and see who could use a little help; kindness starts with noticing.*
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Ozzie is a little elephant with soft floppy ears and a gentle trunk. Ozzie lives in the Helping Garden, where friends grow flowers and play.
Ozzie has a special way of looking. While others hurry past, Ozzie slows down and looks around. "Who needs a hand today?" Ozzie wonders, ears wide and listening.
One morning, Ozzie looked around the garden. A little friend had dropped all her flowers, and they lay scattered on the path. Everyone else walked by. But Ozzie noticed.
Ozzie's heart felt warm and full. He walked over slow and gentle. "I see you need a hand," said Ozzie. "Let me help you gather them up." Ozzie's little rhyme is: "Look around — who needs a hand?"
That is Ozzie's kind secret. Before you can help, you have to notice. So look around, slow and gentle, and see who needs you. Noticing is where kindness begins.
The HelpPals ensemble
Ozzie is part of HelpPals's distributed-narrative cast. Each character embodies a different curricular primitive; together they teach the full subject.
