Winter Stories Sent with Love

Mindy McNeal's Winter Stories

What were the students working on?
WeVideo Holiday stories for the Children's Hospital. Each student chose a Laura Numeroff story and created a video. They had to practice their fluency (part of their IEP goals), create a video including a title page, pictures, and ending page. They recorded their voices through vocaroo.com to incorporate in the video. 

What do you want the students to learn from this activity?
To improve on their fluency, use technology (WeVideo) and use their lifeskills outside of school. (Sharing the stories with the Children's Hospital) 


How does this activity tie to your standards?
The students used these standards to incorporate with their WeVideo projects.

Grade 2 (4.1) Students are expected to read text with purpose and understanding (4.2) Students are expected to read orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, intonation, and phrasing on successive readings.
Grade 3, 4, and 5 (4.1) Students are expected to build upon and continue applying previous learning. (4.2) Students will read prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, intonation and phrasing on successive readings. 

How does this lesson connect to the 4 C's of the 21st Century Learner?
Collaboration- working with the TLC, teacher and students in a small group, one-on-one basis.

Communication- TLC, teacher and students had to communicate about the project to figure

out how to create it.

Creativity- WeVideo was new to most of these students, finding images that related to the story and fit in with their reading.

Critical Thinking- Figuring out how their voice fit in with the pictures through the presentation.


Check out the finished product!