Spilt Milk

This week marks the start of our holiday and gingerbread units!  But before I got started this year, I wanted to have some fun with "It Looked Like Spilt Milk" by Charles G. Shaw.  If you aren't familiar with this story, each page shows a different white shape (bird, cake, squirrel, tree, etc.)  There is a repeating phrase on each page, "Sometimes it looked like a bird, but it wasn't a bird!"  At the story's end, you find out each of the shapes was a cloud in the sky.  After reading this with my students, we decided to make some of our own cloud shapes.

 

I gave each child a piece of white paper to draw and cut out their cloud design.  We then wrote our own story pages, modeled after the pages in "Spilt Milk".  The kids had a lot of fun with this one!

^ This one might be my favorite!  I love the clown drawing!! ^

Such creativity! =)