After reading Charles Shaw's book titled "It Looked Like Spilt Milk", students will create a page in a class book.
Intended Learning Outcomes
3. Demonstrate responsible emotional and cognitive behaviors.
5. Understand and use basic concepts and skills.
6. Communicate clearly in oral, artistic, written, and nonverbal form.
Process Skills
Symbolization, observation, description
Invitation to Learn
Make a “rainstorm.” Start at one side of the room, rubbing your
hands together. Have all the students in front of you do the same. Move across
the room. Have more students join in as you pass in front of them or their row.
When you get to the other side of the room, have students continue rubbing while
you return to where you started. This time, snap your fingers. Have the students
in the row in front of you join in. Move across the room again. As you pass
each row, those students should start snapping. Go back to where you started.
Repeat the process with slapping thighs then stomping feet. As the “storm”
dies down, repeat the process backwards going from stomping to slapping to snapping
to rubbing.
Instructional Procedures
Glue cotton balls on top of paint to make the pictures 3-D.
Have students work in pairs to produce pages.
Family Connections
Keep a journal of cloud observations at home. What did they look like? Did they
bring storms?
Can the student create his or her own original text in the style of the story?