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Who is this blog for?
-Parents -Teachers

Children can learn through Clifford books.
¨Manners¨Seasons¨Colors¨Shapes¨Doctors¨Cleaning¨ABC’S¨Words¨The first day of school

Technologies used with my blog

•Felt board

•Camera

•Cutter

•Velcro

•Book binder

•Scanner

•Audio file

•website

•Printer

•Ellison

The characters in Clifford books

•Emily Elizabeth

•Clifford

•Cleo

•T-Bone

•Jetta

•Mac

•Mimi

•KC

•Mark Howard Elizabeth
 
Reference

Bridwell, Norman. "www.scholastics.com." Clifford The Big Red Dog. Scholastic Entertainments, 2008. Web. 16 Mar 2012. http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/index.htm.

Clifford and shapes

 

Children need to know their shapes what better way than to learn with their favorite Big Red Dog Clifford. There are many fun activities for children to do with Clifford to learn all the shapes.

Click for a fun video on shapes with Clifford

You can make a fun shape card game

 

Playing the card game!

Clifford has a fun workbook to help with shape learning!

Clifford's shape toy

Have the childen look for shapes in the house.

Have the children try and make shapes!

 They had a lot of fun using their bodies to make shapes.

 I gave them yarn and pencils to make the shape I gave them.

Learning shapes is so much fun!

Clifford Keeps Cool

 Clifford Keeps Cool

Clifford, The Big Red Dog, finds a place to keep cool in the summer. Emily Elizabeth and Clifford can’t wait till summer. Last summer it was so hot Clifford had to find different ways to stay cool. He drank water out of a swimming pool, caught a breeze on top a truck, jumped in someone else’s pool and even went on a ice skating rink to cool down. You can read the book to the children and then discuss how they stay cool in the summer.

How we stay cool!

We sit in front of a big fan to cool down!

Swimming cools me down!

 A nice water balloon fight does  the trick!

Even just a nice cold drink!

Clifford Goes To The Docotrs

This book talks about what goes n at the doctor’s office. Clifford goes for his annual checkup, and Dr. Smart has to be very creative to check Clifford's heartbeat, look into his mouth, ears, and eyes, because Clifford is so big. Clifford is very brave when he has to get his shot, and he gets a treat at the end! This is very helpful in getting little ones to like going to the doctors.

To get the children more comfortable with the doctor let them explore by pretending to play doctor.

 Checking Clifford's temperature!

Listening to Clifford's heart beat...thump thump thump!

Clifford's First Autumn

Clifford's First Autumn

Summer is over, and Clifford the small red puppy, is curious about the changes that are happening all around him.Emily and Clifford went to the park for his first autumn and Clifford chased the birds, ran through leafs, and even played some football. This book helps get the children ready for Fall. You can have the children go out side and collect different leafs, make orange juice, draw outside wiith chalk, or even make a paper bag pumkin.Talk about how Autumn, or Fall, is one of the most anticipated, colorful seasons of the year.

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"Orange" You Glad It's Autumn?

Squeeze It!: Supervise children as they make their own orange juice with a juice squeezer. Use this opportunity to discuss the nutritional value of oranges. Invite a producer grocer to come and share about orange varieties, etc.

click to see little kid making orange juice·     

We went to the pumpkin patch=)

Our Pumpkin Bags

Click to make paper bag pumpkin!

Clifford's Spring Clean-Up

Clifford wanted to help Emily and her family with spring cleaning. Emily's mom and dad didn’t like some of Clifford's methods. Clifford did his part in spring cleaning by helping with Earth Day projects. He helped recycle, clean rugs, plant a garden, and paint some benches.Discuss the concept of working together, also called teamwork! Share illustrations from Clifford's Spring Clean-Up by Norman Bridwell. Ask children to guess, or predict, what they think will happen when Clifford decides to help his friends spring clean. Read the story. Discuss the things that Emily Elizabeth's family did to clean their home and yard. What happened when Clifford pitched in to help? Help children identify that it was Clifford's help that turned the vacant lot into a beautiful garden. Talk to children about ways people spring clean: washing windows, sweeping, dusting, raking leaves, clearing vegetation, taking out trash, pruning plants, tilling garden soil, etc.

Spring Cleaning

Cleaning the windows!

Sweeping the floors!

Clifford's Manners

Emily Elizabeth taught Clifford everything he knows. Everyone loves Clifford because he has such good manners. Clifford says "please" when asking for something and "think you" when he gets it. Ask children to recall ways that Clifford used his manners in the story. Cooperatively create a list of good manners to use in the classroom. Display list and review each day by briefly role-playing each manner.

You can discuss definitions of words: courteous and polite. Have children role-play examples of friends being courteous and polite at school by taking turns, saying thank you, and sharing. Explain that friends have more fun working together and playing when manners are used.

Good Manners Book

I had the children create a “Good manners book” and then I put it all together for them to enjoy.

We added pictures of what good manners are. The children can color them and read them over and over agin.

Clifford's ABC's

This is a great book for children who are learning their ABC's. Each page has an alphabet letter on it with a list of words that start with that letter. The pictures on each page illustrate the words that start with that letter. The children can practice the alphabet, learn each letter, and put words with picture while enjoying a great book.

Here are Clifford's ABC's

 

There are so many ways to help children learn ABC's in a fun way. You can let the children make their very own ABC's book with them being the authors and illustrators. Have them play a game with flash cards. They can practice spelling or writing letters with magnets, puzzles, and even an iPad.

Clifford’s Word Book

The book has lots of labels and talks about what Clifford likes and it gets the children involved by asking what they like.  When the book talks about Clifford going for a walk it labels everything (flag, streetlight, traffic light, mailbox, sidewalk, etc.). This is great for the children to put pictures with words to help them with language and writing. In the back of the book it has colors and pictures of items that are of that color. You could have the children point out items and tell you what they are and the color of them.  Make labels and put them on anything the children want to label. They will learn the word because they already know what the item looks like.

These are some labels we did!

Window

Plant

Star

Clock

Anything can be labeled and the children have so much fun doing it!