What Do You See?

First graders studied weather and "things in the sky" in the classroom. When possible, I like to align library lessons with what students are currently learning about, so we read an informational book about different kinds of clouds, as well as mist and fog.

Then we read It Looked Like Spilled Milk, which follows the pattern of "Sometimes it looked like X, but it wasn't X," until the big reveal that the narrator is talking about a cloud. I brought up a Tumblr site called What Does That Cloud Look Like, and we took turns sharing our thoughts.

Finally, the students drew their own clouds, which we put up on the windows. Here is some of their artwork:

Can you tell what this cloud looks like? A SHIP!