What is fluffy, white, and floats up high?

  Clouds, of course! 
  Charle$ $haw's book, It L00ked Like Spi1t Milk, is a great story to share with emergent readers.  Anyone can make their own story book with either of the following activities. First, take a piece of blue construction paper and pour a small amount of white paint into the middle of it.  You can either fold the paper in half, rubbing your hand over the top of the paper OR you can take a straw and blow the paint around the paper. (This is what I do.)  Next, have the artist tell you what their painting looks like to them. You will write "it looked like spi!t milk...but it wasn't spi1t milk" on the first page of your new book.  On each succeeding page you will write the words "it looked like ______(fill in what the child tells you their picture looks like to them)...but it wasn't ______(write the same word)."  Continue this step with each page the children made.  Your final page will say, "it was just a cloud in the sky!"

  Additional activities you can do to support this theme are to: look at clouds and discuss them together; make white felt pieces similar to those in the book and have children sequence and/or match them on a felt board; play with shaving cream (be cautious with this activity); dance around like clouds in the sky on a breezy day; say the following rhyme and riddle. 
  * Clouds
    Clouds in the sky all fluffy and white,
    Hide the sun that shines so bright!
    They float about the sky so blue,
    And form so many great shapes too!

  *Clouds Riddle
    What's fluffy, white, and floats up high?
    Like a pile of cotton in the sky?
    What doesn't seem to make a sound
    As the wind pushes them all around?
    What brings in the rain?
    What brings in the snow?
    And sends it showering on us below?
    When you look up in the sky,
    What are those things you see float by?
               CLOUDS!