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Sandy Kendell

Animate an Acrostic Animal Poem

Grades: 4th Grade, 3rd Grade, 5th Grade
Subjects: English Language Arts, Art, Writing

Student Instructions

CLICK THE SLOTH TO VIEW VIDEOS FOR EACH STEP OF THIS ACTIVITY NOTE: As you are working on this activity, if you run out of time to finish, click the draft Draft button to save it so you don't lose all of your hard work! SETTING UP YOUR ANIMATION 1. Tap add 2. Tap the label tool and type your poem. 3. Resize the text box so each line of your poem fits on one line and the first letters of each line spell your topic going down. 4. Tap the photo and then tap upload to add your animal picture to Seesaw. 5. Use the pencil, pen, and shapes tools to illustrate the FIRST line of your poem. Put your animal where it belongs in the picture! 6. Tap the pages button at the right of the screen. 7. Tap the 3dots at the bottom of page 1 and tap DUPLICATE PAGE to create page 2. 8. On page 2, illustrate the SECOND line of your poem. Move your animal using the move tool if needed. 9. Tap the 3dots at the bottom of page 2 and tap DUPLICATE PAGE to create page 3. 10. Keep creating new pages and illustrating each line of your poem until you are done. You will have one page for each line of your poem. (For your animation to work, you can't go back and make changes to previous pages!) RECORDING YOUR ANIMATED POEM: 1. Tap on Page 1 of your pages on the right side of the screen. 2. Tap the mic to record your poem. Read line one, then tap on Page 2 and read line 2, then tap on Page 3 and read line 3. Continue tapping on each page and reading each line until you finish reading the whole poem. 3. Tap check when you have recorded all lines and slides in your poem. 4. A NEW PAGE 1 with your recording will appear. You can click the arrow on page 1 to watch and listen to your recording. 5. If you want to redo your recording, tap mic and tap RE-RECORD to erase your previous recording. Then tap mic again to record again. 6. When you are completely finished, tap check to add your poem to your Seesaw journal and let your teacher know you are done.

Teacher Notes (not visible to students)

** Based on an acrostic poem animation activity shared with me by Mrs. Disch. Thank you! ** ** Link to Mrs. Disch's activity: https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_activity?share_token=ijIhBd2OQ7iiLibw_Tcm6A&prompt_id=prompt.d365f3a6-48da-4687-bb02-7ca449b5bc25 ** The written instructions are long and detailed. As an alternative, the sloth photo takes students to a YouTube playlist which demonstrates setting up the animation and recording the poem in small steps. Importing a photo of their animal is shown based on students using Chromebooks. You may wish to customize instructions to fit the type of devices your students are using and/or go over relevant instructions with students before they accomplish each stage of the activity. If you find animal pictures for your students ahead of time, search for photos with transparent backgrounds. Ex: "goat transparent background." You can also use the website remove.bg to remove backgrounds from photos you find. Older students can search for photos with transparent backgrounds or use remove.bg on their own.

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