TITLE: It Looked Like Spilt Milk
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Charles G. Shaw
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins PUBLICATION
DATE: 1947
GENRE: Children's Picture Book - Fiction READING LEVEL: Second grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Sometimes it looks like spilt milk, but it’s not. Sometimes it looks like a rabbit, a bird, a tree, an ice cream cone and other familiar things, but it isn't what it looks like. The picture book keeps children guessing until the last page, where they find out that it is a cloud in the sky.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Cloud Blots -
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Blue construction
paper, and white paint
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After reading the
book have students make their own “spilt milk” by putting a drop of paint in
the middle of the paper and folding it in half
Have them write down what objects they see in
their clouds
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Jasmine Nall, Valdosta State University ECED)
LABELS: Animals, shapes, sky
