pumpkins&spooky+stories

=October 20th - 23rd=

Title: Pumpkins and Spooky Stories Objective(s): o  Students will read or listen to a spooky story o  Students will create a spooky cartoon o  Students will watch “It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” o  Students will complete the online quiz about the Charlie Brown movie Materials o  Spooky story o  Headphones at each computer o  Internet access o  White board/chart paper  o  www.bcdb.com  o  www.storytop.com o  http://www.peanuts.com/comics/peanuts/greatpumpkin/ MONDAY Procedure > >  i.   it takes place at night in the dark  ii. there is a bad guy  iii. someone is scared  iv. spooky noises happen  v.   there is a full moon  vi. monsters come out  vii. **make sure the students do not suggest violent or inappropriate things for the story. If they do, explain that they cannot include them in this story.** TUESDAY Procedure WEDNESDAY Procedure THURSDAY Procedure ANSWER KEY:
 * 1)  gather students on the carpet and review expectations for story time
 * 2) read the spooky story to the students
 * 3) after the story, ask the students these questions
 * 4) Who were the characters?
 * 5) Where did the story happen?
 * 6) What was spooky about the story?
 * 7)  explain to the students that they are going to create their own spooky story using www.storytop.com
 * 1) on the white board or chart paper, ask students to tell you some details or components that make a good spooky story
 * 2) for example:
 * 1)  tell the students that tomorrow they are going to use an online program to create their own spooky story, so tomorrow they need to come prepared with ideas for their story
 * 1) remind students of the spooky story from yesterday
 * 2) review the list of spooky things you made yesterday that the kids might want to include in their story
 * 3) model how to log onto www.storytop.com
 * 4) click “create a story now”
 * 5) at the top, click the green button “login”
 * 6) the user name is “bridge kid” and the password is “bridge”
 * 7) read the options in the “text” drop box on the left to the students (backgrounds, people, animal, fish, reptiles, plants, buildings, furniture, transport, weather)
 * 8) model how to choose a few different options from the drop box and drag them into the story space
 * 9) model how to use the arrows to make the picture bigger or smaller
 * 10) click the green right arrow button under the story space for a new page
 * 11) a box should pop up that says “enter story title”
 * 12) model how to write your name and then “Spooky Story” and click “save”
 * 13) for example, Margaret’s Spooky Story or Troy’s Spooky Story
 * 14) on the second page, model a couple other option and designs from the “text” drop box
 * 15) model how to access the students’ stories from the “my stories” tab at the top
 * 16) click on “my stories”
 * 17) click on “list my stories”
 * 18) model how to click on your story to access it
 * 19) ask for questions
 * 20) on the white board or chart paper write www.storytop.com and bridge kid, bridge
 * 21) this is the information they need to log onto the site
 * 22) have the students move to a computer and log onto www.storytop.com
 * 23) click “create a story now” and then click “login”
 * 24) point to the user name and password on the white board or chart paper
 * 25) monitor and assist the students while they create their spooky story
 * 26) make sure the students click save before they are finished
 * 27) make sure that their story shows up in the “my stories” tab at the top
 * 28) before students close the page, they need to click “logout”!!!
 * 1) explain to the students that they are going to watch a Charlie Brown pumpkin movie on their computers and then tomorrow they are going to quiz each other on it
 * 2) model how to log onto www.bcdb.com
 * 3) on the left side near the top, click “Login/Register”
 * 4) in the user name box, type “mbriggs”
 * 5) in the password box, type “bridge”
 * 6) on the top left side in the search box, model how to type “It’s the Great Pumpkin” and hit enter on the keyboard
 * 7) scroll down until you see “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966).”
 * 8) click on it
 * 9) scroll down to the heading “Download Cartoon Video”
 * 10) under that, click “Watch Cartoon Online”
 * 11) if an advertisement screen pops up DO NOT CLICK FREE DOWNLOAD!!!! Tell the students to wait until the correct screen comes up!!!!!
 * 12) show the students how to click the play arrow in the middle of the screen
 * 13) model how to click “logout” on the left side when the movie is over
 * 14) ask for questions
 * 15) have the students move to a computer and make sure they have headphones
 * 16) if students need to share a computer they may have the volume on low
 * 17) have the students watch the movie- remind them to pay close attention because they are going to quiz each other tomorrow  J
 * 18) when students are finished watching the movie, please make sure they log out
 * 1) ask the students to do a short retell of the movie they watched yesterday
 * 2) ask the following questions to the students:
 * 3) Who were the characters in the story?
 * 4) What were some of the costumes the kids used?
 * 5) Where did the story take place? (there is more than one answer)
 * 6) What was a problem in the movie?
 * 7) How did the story end?
 * 8) model to the students how to log onto http://www.peanuts.com/comics/peanuts/greatpumpkin/
 * 9) model how to click on the “trivia game” link (in the text next to the trivia game picture)
 * 10) read each question out loud and then the answer options
 * 11) as a large group decide the answer to each one of them (see answer key)
 * 12) once you have finished doing the questions as a group, divide the kids into partners or groups of 3
 * 13) have students move to a computer
 * 14) have them log onto http://www.peanuts.com/comics/peanuts/greatpumpkin/
 * 15) click on “trivia game”
 * 16) assist/monitor the students as they work in a group to answer the trivia questions
 * 1) the great pumpkin
 * 2) Sally
 * 3) rocks
 * 4) France
 * 5) Charlie brown’s head
 * 6) 1966
 * 7) a witch
 * 8) in the most sincere pumpkin patch
 * 9) bobbing for apples
 * 10) Snoopy
 * 11) sweet babboo
 * 12) the red baron