I am not going to be able to teach my next lesson on Nikolaus to the 3rd & 4th graders. The classroom teachers kindly agreed to work on it with the students while I’m away. They will review the Nikolaus legend I told them in the last lesson, but I needed a way for the kids to hear the German story. So my terrific tech-savvy husband helped me figure out a way to do just that!
I used a program called Explain Everything and was able to use a tablet to draw and record the story as a video that could be uploaded! Here it is….
After they watch the video, students have two options:
- Draw a picture of their favorite scene and find a sentence in the text to use as a caption.
- Illustrate a booklet of the story (can also be done in partner work).
A variation for the second option would be to print out individual pages from the booklet and have each student illustrate one page to make a collaborative book.
You can download the text and illustration page as a PDF here: Nikolaus und die drei Töchter Text. Download the booklet as a PDF here: Nikolaus booklet.
I hope to create more animated drawings like this for my students to use as review. Stay tuned!
