Giraffes Can't Dance

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Next, the kids painted the moon using white paint. They painted in a circular motion, starting in the center and moving outwards until they touched the blue paint. I encouraged the kids to paint over the blue, so the white and blue sky would mix. Find out about the history of dancing. Can you learn some dances that people have performed in years gone by? Carry out a survey in your class to find out which animal your friends think would be the best dancers. Use photos of real giraffes as a starting point for drawing your own illustrations (see Resources below). Ofsted Audit tool meeting expectations for Intent, Implementation and Impact through the SCARF coherent, sequential curriculum

ACTIVITY: Ask students to identify Gerald's feelings at different points in the story and explain what clues they used to make their inferences.

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Are there some things that you are good at right now that you may not be good at in the future? Can you come up with examples? Understanding Characters' Feelings: The book provides opportunities to infer characters' feelings based on their actions and words. For example, students can infer Gerald's feelings of embarrassment and, later, joy. These task cards are designed for first grade to third grade to provide your students with practice with identifying character traits, feelings and physical traits of characters in the story. These multiple choice questions will allow your students to make inferences about characters. Concidentally, when Madame Gazelle introduced Gerald, it was quite like the introductory of Emily Elephant, with their classmates discovering their long features during play. Cut and paste sorting worksheet – sort Gerald’s character traits into beginning of the story and end of the story.

Face embroidery: Embroider the eye lids, eye brows and nostrils as shown in the photos below. I embroidered the eye brows between R22 and R24 and the nostrils between R5 and R8 of the head.We are a fast-moving digital news channel which will keep you in the know about what’s happening in the capital of Devon seven days a week.

Identifying Cause and Effect: After reading the Giraffes Can't Dance book, discuss the causes and effects of the story. Ask students to identify what happened (effect) when Gerald believed he couldn't dance (cause) and then what happened when he found his rhythm (cause). Are there some things that you are not good at right now that you may be good at in the future? Can you come up with examples? The other animals assumed that because Gerald was clumsy he couldn’t dance. Is that a good assumption for them to make? Why or why not?

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Cut and paste worksheets - students cut and paste the qualities, feelings and physical traits of Gerald the giraffe at the beginning and end of the story. Ask children, “Who can guess which zoo animal is the tallest?” “Who knows where giraffes live?" Place a giraffe picture on Africa on a map or on a globe. Giraffe Rhyme Who can tell me the names of some of the animals in the picture? (lions, lizards, water buffalo, hyena, leopard, hippo, crocodile, zebra, etc.)