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It Looked Like Spilt Milk [With Hardcover Book]
Ages 3 to 6.Sometimes it looked like Spilt Milk. But it wasn't Spilt Milk.Sometimes it looked like a Bird or an Ice Cream Cone or a Birthday Cake or an Angel.But it wasn't a Bird or an Ice Cream Cone or a Birthday Cake or an Angel.What was it?Whether reading in a group or on your own, you'll be kept guessing until the very end.
Compact Disc, with hardcover book, Abridged, 32 pages
Published
April 28th 2006
by Live Oak Media (NY)
(first published 1969)
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This was a cute book to read! Great for new readers or younger that you are still reading too.
The funny thing is the other night, my son was getting ready for bed. He had testing at school the next day so he had an earlier bedtime. He had taken his shower and was still putzing around. So I said in my best Mommy voice "B, it's time to go night night, are you finished getting ready for bed? Do you want Mommy to read you a story?" I didn't hear anything, then all of the s...more
The funny thing is the other night, my son was getting ready for bed. He had testing at school the next day so he had an earlier bedtime. He had taken his shower and was still putzing around. So I said in my best Mommy voice "B, it's time to go night night, are you finished getting ready for bed? Do you want Mommy to read you a story?" I didn't hear anything, then all of the s...more
Simple, but very cute. This is a great book for story time and easily adapted to felt board. Shaw uses a repetitve verse which kids will easily be able to follow and they'll enjoy trying to guess what each white shape is. Todder, PreK.
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Charles G. Shaw's picturebook, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, is a simple, but original book that is fun and interactive for children of all ages. This book consists entirely of white images and text on navy blue pages. Each of the images is simply a white splotch on the page that resembles a, for the most part, easily recognizable animal or everyday object. Children will find great fun in guessing and attempting to identify what the white splotch looks like, only to realize that that is not what it...more
Encourages the reader to use his/her imagination to see spilt milk as something else (e.g. a rabbit, an ice cream cone) but the picture looks exactly like a rabbit or an ice cream cone.
I would use this book to introduce similes to students grades K-1. I imagine the book would also be fun to go through without reading the words. Just ask the kid/student "what does this look like to you?"
Some of the capitalization in the book doesn't follow conventional rules (e.g...more
I would use this book to introduce similes to students grades K-1. I imagine the book would also be fun to go through without reading the words. Just ask the kid/student "what does this look like to you?"
Some of the capitalization in the book doesn't follow conventional rules (e.g...more
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mothers of young children
Recommended to Eva by:
the little boy I was a nanny for 19 years ago
Encourages your little ones to stretch their imaginations. Lots of repetition makes it easy for little ones to help tell the story. Be sure to get the hardcover because your toddler will love it. A classic.
After reading, try playing the same guessing game outside. Read this to my 17 year old when he was less than a year old and we've been guessing ever since!
What this book has taught us? How to verbalize what we see and think to others. When we use our imagination, the...more
After reading, try playing the same guessing game outside. Read this to my 17 year old when he was less than a year old and we've been guessing ever since!
What this book has taught us? How to verbalize what we see and think to others. When we use our imagination, the...more
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"It Looked Like Spilt Milk" is a great classical picture book to read aloud to students K-3 to engage them in the reading. Throughout this book, there are lots of different white pictured illustrations up against blue pages, and includes repetitive phrases like, "It looked like a..." "but it wasn't a ..." This allows children to repeat the phrases, as well as make predictions about what they think the illustrations are. At the end, it is revealed that it was a whi...more
This is a very simple, but entertaining book that shows how a little imagination and some puffy white clouds can be a fun way to pass the time. The illustrations are very basic and look like Rorschach tests. We borrowed this book from our local library as part of a kit with an audiocassette. We listened to the story in the car while our girls followed along with the book. I read the story myself later to catch the effect of the illustrations. We enjoyed this book, although it's probably on the...more
The librarian read the big book version of this at story time, which was nice for seeing the pictures. This book had simple white illustrations on dark blue pages, which worked very well for the story. I liked the idea of this book. It was a simple concept, well executed. It would be fun to have a child guess what could look like all these things. The title is very unique, but I was a little disappointed that that flair was missing from the rest of the book.
ماذا ترين في السماء ياهدى؟
رأيت نفسي في هذا الكتاب، طفلة في السادسة
مستلقية في المقعد الخلفي لسيارة تجوب الولايات الأمريكية
كم تبدو تلك الأيام قريبة رغم بعدها
الحمدلله على نعمة الذكريات
رأيت نفسي في هذا الكتاب، طفلة في السادسة
مستلقية في المقعد الخلفي لسيارة تجوب الولايات الأمريكية
كم تبدو تلك الأيام قريبة رغم بعدها
الحمدلله على نعمة الذكريات
Great beginning reader with easy pattern for young readers to follow. Love to use it with children's writing as well. Fold a blue piece of construction paper in half. Open it up and drop a blob of thick white paint on the inside then close and press. Open it back up and have the child write what the white cloud looks like.
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw has the honor of being the first book Harriet has recommended to me to read. It's on her short list of favorite library books (tied, I think with The Book That Eats People by John Perry).
The book begins with a simple white blob and an explanation that "Sometimes it looked like spilt milk." From there the white on blue shapes take on other familiar forms: a tree, a duck and so forth. In the end of course the shapes are revealed to...more
The book begins with a simple white blob and an explanation that "Sometimes it looked like spilt milk." From there the white on blue shapes take on other familiar forms: a tree, a duck and so forth. In the end of course the shapes are revealed to...more
I really like how this book is repetitive. It's really easy for younger children to read. I found that preschoolers really enjoy this book. This book could be used to expand the students creativity and imagination. A follow up activity could involve the students painting with white paint as milk to create their own images.
This book is great for shape recognition and dialogic reading (asking open ended questions) as it allows the children to use their knowledge to determine the shape .
Early Literacy Skills:
Letter Knowledge
Print Motivation
Early Literacy Skills:
Letter Knowledge
Print Motivation
My favorite professor in college read this to us to explain the way children read. I have fond memories of this book, and Dr. Jimmie Russell. She was the biggest influence on me as a teacher. She left us way too soon! I miss her very much! :-)
Another wonderful book for the imagination. It starts out as spilt milk. But is that what it really is? Maybe it's a tree? Or a bird? Buuuuut, it's a cloud. Very easy read with endless possibilities of just how our minds can perceive things.
Genre: Picture Book
Reading Level: K-4
Topic/Theme: imagination, creativity
Summary: Each page has a different white shape against a white background. Students guess from page to page what the object might be.
Classroom Use: Entertainment
Reading Level: K-4
Topic/Theme: imagination, creativity
Summary: Each page has a different white shape against a white background. Students guess from page to page what the object might be.
Classroom Use: Entertainment
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Allow a child to use their imagination. I remember one day I was outside with my girls and we was looking at the clouds trying to guess what it looks like and that is exactly what this book is about
i had to read this book for a cloud unit for the kindergarten class that i was teaching in for a couple weeks. it was really fun to watch the kids try and figure out what was going on. very good.
This is a very cute book to read to young students. Teacher could create an activity similar to the story dealing with the types of pictures they (students) see when they look at the clouds.
The title of this book suggests a mystery, and the clues on each page will launch your child’s flight of fancy.
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This is a very simple book, but I love it. I like the idea behind it and doing an art project "It looked like spilt goop" and having the children tell me what THEIR pictures look like!
This was a very simple, easy to read book. While the focus is interpretations, the message is conveyed in a way so that kindergarteners can understand this concept.
We LOVE the books that Jordan can "reread" to her baby brother. The excitement of guessing the pictures was so much fun for Jordan (and yeah, me too).
a classic - must share at least once a year in either book or flannel board form - older children love telling the story as you show the shapes.
Appropriate for Pre-K through 1st grade.
Encourages students to use their imaginations through the exploration of cloud shapes.
Encourages students to use their imaginations through the exploration of cloud shapes.
Not the greatest, by any means. Its a long book about all the different things clouds could look like. Pigs, ice cream, etc.
When teaching preschool, my students always loved this book. It's also a great introduction to science for preschoolers.
Very simple guessing game book, but a storytime classic. I did this as a feltboard, and my storytime crowd had a blast.
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