Oh my word, y'all. I. am. ready. for. Friday. No worries though, only one more school day until the weekend! Yahoo!
We trotted on today with cause and effect. Only with a minor delay- my voice is going out :(, so I could NOT have made it through another Amelia Bedelia book (they tend to be a little lengthy). Once my students were with me this morning, I knew I had to make a plan B. So, I went to one of my favorite resources, Storyline Online, to find a book to use with cause and effect.
That's when I saw, "A Bad Case of Stripes," and I knew that it would be perfect! We watched the story, and paused to talk about the different cause/effects as we read.
After we finished reading, my students wrote about the story using the cause/effects we talked about. This was a great transition from just listing the cause/effects like we had previously been doing. We used sentences like: "___________ happened because___________." The kids did really well with it. It was also a little bit of summarizing... I get extra points for combining 2 skills, right?!
As we were watching the video I drew up Camilla Cream's face and hair and made copies in a flash so that the kids could use them after they finished their writing assignments. I tried my best on the drawings, but I definitely did not do it perfectly! She looks a little like a crazed person, haha!
You can click {HERE} to download this project for free!
Happy Friday Eve... hope you all have a fast Friday and a wonderful weekend :)
30 comments:
I am so impressed with you! I sent a link to your post about Amelia Bedelia to my teacher team and they all LOVED it! Thank you soooooo much for sharing!
Hope you're feeling better soon!
~Maggie
Oh my goodness! I love this! I'm hoping I can squeeze it into our day tomorrow! :) Thanks! I wish I had any kind of drawing talent, I have zero! My kids loved Bad Case of the Stripes when it was in our listening center!
Lisa
Stories From Second
I love that book!
Jennifer
First Grade Blue SKies
OMG! This is adorable! I was actually trying to come up with a good lesson for cause and effect. Thanks so much! :)
Oh My Goodness....I love that book and I love your idea:) So cute!!! Thanks for sharing:)
Sheri
1st Grade ROCKS!!!
Love it!!
Thank you!
I absolutely love this book. I can't believe that you made up that activity on the spot. So cute!
Swimming into Second
WAIT WHAT!?!?!? I have never heard of storyonline before! How freakin' cool is that!!!!
Love storyline online! Use it all the time! Thanks so much for the great idea!
Kristy
www.cozartsclass.blogspot.com
This is my favorite story/lesson to teach my kiddos. We did this story in October, and they painted their pumpkins like Camilla. Love your freebies, and thanks for sharing :)
LOVE this! Thanks for sharing!
Super cute!!
Jodi
Fun In First
This is too cute! I love this story! Thanks for sharing!
I am in LOVE! You know this is seriously my kids all time favorite story! I dressed up as Camilla for our book character parade...it was a scream! This will definitely make its way into my classroom! You are awesome, friend! :)
Hope
I am so glad I found your blog! I LOVE this book and your activity is great! Thank you! I'm following you now. :)
Lori
Conversations in Literacy
You are truly amazing! I don't see how you can just whip things like this up! I mean I have definitely "taught from the hip" many times but you go above and beyond! Thanks for the freebie!
Loves!!!!!!
I just found your blog and I LOVE it! You have so many great things here. I just added way too many things to wish list on TPT. Thanks for all the great stuff!
Sarah
Sarah's First Grade Snippets
I LOVE this book! Thanks for the cute download!
Jenn
Finally in First
Love it!!! One of my favorite books =) thanks Clara
Super idea! This is perfect, since I don't have access to all these books. I can show the video instead. We read a few weeks ago The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash, for cause and effect (can't remember if the idea was from your blog). I also then made small cards with causes on them, and they had to decide the effect. Some examples, you leave the cookies in the oven too long, you step on a banana peel, you run over a nail with your bike, and so on. It was a bit hard for them to come up with some ideas of what the effect was. I will for sure make this a follow up activity next week! Thanks again!!
I'm your newest follower :). My first graders love this story. Thanks for the download!
Erin
Projects & Polkadots
Absolutely adorable....using it today!
I love this idea!! We did it in class the other day and the kids LOVED it!! I had one color her face like a flag so I thought that was cute to be different. You have me thinking of other skills to do like this such as problem and solution. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Thank you so much for sharing! My students loved his activity. Here's a shout out to you...
http://staplersstrategies.blogspot.com/2012/02/bad-case-of-stripes.html
Melly<><
Stapler’s Strategies for Sizzlin' Second Graders!
I love this story. Thanks for the freebie!
2B Honey Bunch
The Best Endings
I recently started a blog for teachers about the ways I use different books in my classroom. I recently shared about A Bad Case of Stripes on my blog. Then I found your site via Pinterest. I hope you don't mind, but I have posted a link back to your site to share how you have used the book in your classroom.
Kaylee
http://basketofbooks.blogspot.com/
I am so excited to use this with my second grade ESL students this week. Thank you for sharing this!! I love this book! It teaches students to be original and not worry so much about what others think. A life long skill combined with teaching cause and effect. PERFECT-O!!
love this idea!!! At my school we use imagine it but on our review weeks we plug in fun activities. Thank you so much for sharing ;)
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