This lesson can be modified for any lower school class. This PowerPoint comes with bells and whistles! As a whole class we watch and listen to The Polar Express by Chris van Allsburg http://www.storylineonline.net/ which is read by Lou Diamond Phillips and is about 9 minutes long. Each students responds to the book by typing in their “wish” for the world on a PowerPoint Slide and inserting their digital picture in their train car window. Students also are shown/modeled how to change the color of their car window. This lesson can be differentiated by having students change the font, size, and color.
Here is a link for the Powerpoint.
http://www.cobbk12.org/sites/literacy/fetc/ppt/Polar_short.ppt
