4K holiday program with Little Bird Tales

One of the Four-Year-Old Kindergarten teachers came to me wanting to do a short show for each of her class's holiday programs.  Last year we did a VoiceThread about gifts they would give their families.  This year, we decided on using Little Bird Tales to share what students think is inside of Santa's bag. 

Here is one of the programs: 

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In the classroom, the teacher and students learned about Santa and his bag.  Students then drew pictures of what they think is inside of his bag.  I took the pictures and scanned them all in, then recorded the students one by one.  As these students are four and five, it was not a script that they read, they just talked to me, telling me what they drew.  Many of them were very intimidated by the microphone!

Cynthia Rylant author study

Second grade students studied author Cynthia Rylant last month and wanted to do something with technology as the culminating activity.  Students learned about the author and her books in the classroom.  When they came to me, we:

- Watched the beginning of a BrainPOP Jr. video about Rylant:

- Created a Little Bird Tale as if we were the creators of a Henry and Mudge story.  Check it out here:

• Click to view my tale.

Students had a choice to use the Paint program to create their pictures or to draw them by hand.  Just over half of the class choose the computers while the others preferred their drawing tools in hand. 

I got inspiration for this project from the Van Meter Voice blog's Mercer Meyer author study.  Check it out!