Here is a new flannel board set for the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. This book, about a cloud that makes different shapes, will go well with a. To make these, I printed them on card stock paper, laminated and cut out, and added a Velcro tab to the back (the sticky side of the Velcro) to use on a flannel board. You could also put magnets on the back to use on a magnetic board or a cookie sheet. These cards could be used to retell the story, sequence the story, or match to beginning letter sounds. You could also use them for a rhyming activity by placing a few of the cards on the board: use 2 cards or as many as 6 cards, depending on the level of your group.
Call out a word and ask them to find the card that rhymes. For example, call out “jig” for the child to find pig.
Use silly words as needed. Examples:. rabbit: babbit, habit.
bird: word, heard. tree: bee, three. ice cream: mice dream. flower: tower, bower.
pig: wig, jig. cake: snake, lake. sheep: jeep, keep. owl: fowl, howl. mitten: smitten, kitten.
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squirrel: whirl, swirl. angel: rangel, zangel If you are looking for more flannel board sets, here is a resource page with links to all of the I’ve made so far. Download the Flannel Board Printable Note: This is a free printable, just click to download. Get the book here.
'Sometimes it Looked Like Spilt Milk' This is an adorable picture book with an easy to recognize pattern. It's perfect for a kindergarten or first grade class This book can be used in conjunction with a springtime, or clouds unit with great results. The kids will quickly begin to recognize the repeated pattern of 'Sometimes it looked like a , but it wasn't a.' This pattern is repeated throughout the book as cloud pictures change from one to the next.
Great for inspiring the imagination, It Looked Like Spilt Milk is sure to have a place in your classroom. Here are some lesson plans to help you. Buy the book.
Cooking Activity: 'Clouds in the Sky' You'll Need:. Berry blue jello, already made (sugar free is available). Cool Whip.
Plastic spoons. Small disposable bowls or clear cups This is a fun little cooking activity to go along with It Looked Like Spilt Milk. Have the students spoon the berry blue jello into their bowl or cup. This jello is a beautiful crystal clear blue that looks just like a springtime sky.
Next, the students will spoon some Cool Whip (clouds) over their jello. (sky) Have the students discuss what their 'clouds' look like in their 'sky'. This is just a fun snack activity to spark childhood imaginations. Clouds and Wind Science Fun Discuss the fact that wind is moving air. Talk about the clouds and changes their shape.
Go outside to look at the clouds. You'll want to choose a day when the sky is blue with puffy cumulus clouds throughout the sky for best results. There should be some wind blowing so that the clouds are moving. Bring beach towels with you or spread out some large blankets. Kids can lie down and gaze up at the clouds.
Talk about what is seen. Ask questions like: Are the clouds moving? What is causing the clouds to move? Do you see any fun shapes? Are the clouds changing shape? Explain that the clouds are moving and changing shape because the wind is blowing them in the sky.
Review the fact that wind is moving air. Create A Classroom Book Make a class big book of your own.
Read It Looked Like Spilt Milk. Next, give each child a large piece of blue construction paper. The students will use white tempera paint mixed with water and dish washing liquid. Simply spoon a few tablespoons powdered or premixed white tempera paint into a small disposable bowl. Add a small squirt of dish washing liquid and a little water.
This makes a bubbly mixture that appears really cloud-like. Download bryan adams anthology 2005 rar. The students will paint a cloud shape on their construction paper. Tell the students to make a picture of something of their own choice. Kids will finger paint or sponge paint the cloud picture onto the paper.
Either will make a good cloud picture. Have the student write the following sentence on the bottom of the paper: 'Sometimes it looked like a.' They will fill in the blank with whatever they chose to paint on their picture.
The teacher can assist in the writing, depending upon age and ability level. Underneath the sentence, write, 'But it wasn't a.' Fill in the blank with the object that was painted. Put the pages together and read your own version of the story.
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About the Book It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw, is a great book for preschoolers. This repetitive story about clouds changing shape sparks the imagination as the book shows different cloud pictures and repeats the line, 'Sometimes it looked like a , but it wasn't a.' At the end of the story the book reveals, 'It was just a cloud in the sky.'
This story is perfect for springtime, clouds, wind, weather and kites units. If you're looking for a story to build a spring thematic unit around, you can't beat. Preschool activities like the ones below will get you started. Sometimes It Looked Like A. Art/Bulletin Board Activity After reading the story, discuss with your preschoolers how clouds can take different shapes when the wind blows them and if we use our imaginations, we can see different objects in the clouds. Have students make their own cloud picture, which is a great bulletin board idea as well.
Using white tempera paint and sponges, students will make their own cloud picture on blue construction paper. While your preschoolers are sure to know what their picture is, you may not, so be sure to write what the picture is at the bottom of the page in magic marker. For an easy bulletin board, start with a kite border, and simply arrange the cloud pictures on your bulletin board.
Place some birds and kite pictures randomly throughout the bulletin board as well. A sun shining in the top right corner makes a nice touch.
Title the bulletin board, 'Sometimes it looked like a.' The labeled pictures serve to fill in the blank. Cloud Shape Patterning To prepare, use tracing paper and trace some of the various shapes from the story. Some of the shapes from the story include an ice cream cone, birthday cake, tree, bird and a rabbit. Make at least four of each of the shapes using white tagboard or other stiff paper.
Glue cotton to each of the shapes to make them look more like clouds (cotton gives the shapes a nice texture for tactile exploration). Using sentence strips and the patterns, make a variety of strips with different repeating cloud patterns on them. Use the cloud shapes and pattern strips for a math center activity. Adobe premiere pro cs6 hdv presets.
Students will choose a pattern strip and use the cloud shapes to copy the pattern on the chosen strip. Several students can do this center activity at the same time.
Preschoolers can also choose to develop their own pattern using the cloud shapes. Sing a Song about the Wind Sing the following song together during circle time to bring home the concept that the wind is responsible for changing the appearance of the clouds and moving them across the sky. The Wind Moves the Clouds (tune of 'The Farmer in the Dell') The wind moves the clouds, The wind moves the clouds, And when it does they change their shape, The wind moves the clouds. If you're planning a wind, springtime or kites unit, don't forget to include It Looked like Spilt Milk. Preschool activities like the ones in this article stimulate little imaginations and drive home basic preschool concepts.
This classic story is one that you won't want your students to miss.
This post may contain affiliate links. Thank you for your support. We got an awesome package in the mail recently from Devany at as part of the Love Books Summer Exchange, organized. This is a great program every year where bloggers team up and do a book & activity exchange! It was super fun and I am so glad to have been a part of it!
The book we received from was (Amazon affiliate link). As it turns out, my daughter and I had never read this book before, so we were very excited to read it! When I saw the title I thought this is perfect because my girls spill milk almost every day at our house! But the book is not actually about spilt milk. It is about clouds and how they come in many shapes and sizes and, with a little imagination, they take the form of many different objects, animals and familiar things! My daughter cracked up laughing the first time we read this book!
It is really funny because it leaves you guessing until the end. This is a perfect book for toddlers, as it is mostly pictures that toddlers can identify, and it teaches how to use your imagination to see objects within abstract images. After reading the book a few times, we couldn't wait to do the fun activities we received from. Here they are: 1.
Sent us these really cute parchment paper cut-outs (hand-made) in the shapes of a dinosaur, a train, a teddy bear, an airplane, an elephant, and several other animals and objects. My daughter played with the cut-outs on top of the blue tissue paper.
She loved the train shape and made up a story about how all the other animals and objects are riding the choo choo train! We turned the ceiling fan on and it started slowly blowing the shapes across the tissue paper, mimicking clouds being blown across the sky by the wind. She spent quite a while with this activity and really used her imagination! 'Cloud' & 'Sky' Sensory Bin.
This activity was especially fun for my daughter because we don't do too many sensory bins at our house. So she jumped at the opportunity for messy sensory play! This sensory bin was made with blue water beads, which is the 'sky', and soap foam for the 'clouds'. To make the soap foam, I just poured some liquid dish soap into a mixing bowl, added a bit of water, and mixed it with a hand mixer for a few minutes until the soap foamed up. It was really simple and my daughter had a blast! Melted Pony Bead 'Clouds'.
It Looked Like Spilt Milk Literature, level: Elementary Posted Mon Jul 20 13:12:41 PDT 1998 by Literature Chatboard. Materials Required: varied Activity Time: varied Concepts Taught: Literature Extensions IT LOOKED LIKE SPILT MILK Loved Peachy's idea Here's a new book to work on Posted by Becky, on 6/06/98 I loved Peachy's idea and plan to print out the ideas for Caps for Sale. One of my favorites is It Looked Like Spilt Milk.
It has a good pattern and is fairly easy for beginning readers (level 7 reading recovery). Read several times and familiarize students with the pattern. Make shapes out of white felt and let students use the book to sequence the shapes in the story.(There is a book with patterns and ideas: Literature Activities for favorite stories by Teacher Created Materials) Talk about clouds. Go outside and observe some. Make a cloud in the classroom using steam. Put a blob of white paint in the middle of a piece of blue paper. Let students fold the paper and unfold when it is dry they write: Sometimes it looked like but it wasn't.
These are great for the bulletin board. I used craft ribbon with suns and clouds for border.
Put up the words Sometimes It Looked Like. But It Was Just a Cloud. It attracted a lot of attention.
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Becky Re: Loved Peachy's idea Here's a new book to work on Posted by Djinn on 6/07/98 Have students create clouds using 'torn' paper instead of precutting the image - then they must look at their cloud and decide what it looks like. Read 'Little Cloud' by Eric Carle Go outside and lie down on the grass - watch the clouds go by and discuss what they look like. Take cotton balls apart and glue onto blue paper. Write It looked like. Make a cloud in the classroom - science experiment. Write a class poem - using C.L.O.U.D as the beginning of each line- have students brainstorm descriptive words that start with c etc.
Transfer your poem to a large sheet of butcher paper - cut out two pieces of paper to look like a cloud and stuff with tissue - hang your cloud poem from the ceiling. Djinn Re: Loved Peachy's idea Here's a new book to work on Posted by Joni, on 6/10/98 I got this idea for 'It Looked Like Spilt Milk' from the preschool Mailbox -can't remember which one. Spoon out a blob of whipped cream on waxed paper for each child. Have them shape it into a cloud with a spoon.
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This can get tricky! Next, put all of the clouds on a tray and freeze them. Voila- frozen clouds!
Here's a song that also came from Mailbox: to the tune of 'twinkle, twinkle little star' Floating clouds up in the sky, Changing shapes as you pass. Floating by without a sound. Won't you come and touch the ground? Floating clouds up in the sky, Changing shapes as you pass. Joni Re: Loved Peachy's idea Here's a new book to work on Posted by Grace, on 6/11/98 Read several times and familiarize students with the pattern. Make shapes out of white felt and let students use the book to sequence the shapes in the story.(There is a book with patterns and ideas: Literature Activities for favorite stories by Teacher Created Materials) Talk about clouds. Go outside and observe some.
Free 2009 building code. Make a cloud in the classroom using steam. Put a blob of white paint in the middle of a piece of blue paper. Let students fold the paper and unfold when it is dry they write: Sometimes it looked like but it wasn't. These are great for the bulletin board. I used craft ribbon with suns and clouds for border. Put up the words Sometimes It Looked Like.
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But It Was Just a Cloud. It attracted a lot of attention. Becky Becky, I have done a similar activity for 'It looked Like Spilt Milk' with my kinders, but instead of using white paint, I give each child a small piece (6x9) white construction paper, and they tear a cloud (after observing clouds outside). Then they glue their white paper shapes on blue paper, and we finish with the same sentence frame you used. I have then put the pages together into a class book. Re: Loved Peachy's idea Here's a new book to work on Posted by Nedra, on 6/15/98 My class has made big books using 18'x24' blue construction paper and painting the pictures to go along with It Looked Like Spilt Milk and Little Cloud. I made Little Cloud into and accordion book so it spread most of the way across the room when it was all opened up.
The kids loved it! For Spilt Milk I had the kids write the text. For Little Cloud I typed it on the computer and we added it to the correct page. We also made a memory game using the words from Spilt Milk.
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