Clifford Unit
For Teachers and Parents!
Clifford Unit
For Teachers and Parents!
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Kohl's Cares For Kids is now (Feb. 2004) selling the above items for $5.00 each. I am loving this program!!! If you do not have a Kohl's you can order online (if the sale is still on) by clicking here. Of course I had to get everything. The plush Clifford is my favorite. He is very soft and so cute. I got one for my son and nephew too. I have decided to update this page with a few ideas in honor of Kohl's selling these cute items!!! Thanks Kohl's!!! Updated - March 13, 2004 Here you will find lesson ideas, literature activities, center ideas, free printables, crafts, and so much more to make teaching with Clifford an academic hit. A big thank you to all the teachers that have ideas on this page. Many of the ideas were posted on the Teaching is a Work of Heart Mailring & Chatboard. Also, may were posted on the TNet rings and boards. I just organized all the ideas and put them in one place for teachers to use! |
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Clifford Books and Ideas to Match Them!
Ideas To Use With Clifford's Good Deeds LISTENING CENTER - Have your students listen to this at your listening center. When finished they should make a list of things they can do to help out your community and neighborhood. READING COMPREHENSION - Provide patterns that symbolize Clifford's good deeds: leaf, paint brush, kitten, flat tire, newspaper, man on the ground, house on fire, a medal. Have your students sequence these symbols to explain the events on the story. This would make a great pocket chart center! MATH/TELLING TIME - Show a blank clock face and relate Clifford's good deeds to actual times in the day. Allow 30 min. for each deed and work as a group to figure out Clifford's schedule. CREATIVE WRITING - Make a class book of "Best Good Deeds." As a class, brainstorm good deeds that they have seen others do or good deeds they have done. Make a list of these deeds. Now that the students have some ideas, they can write about their best good deeds or the best good deed someone has done for them. When they finish the writing part, have them illustrate it. Collect and bind to make a class book! MAKE TEXT TO TEXT CONNECTIONS - Compare and Contrast Clifford's Good Deeds with Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Clifford was having a bad day. Discuss with your class a bad day you have had. Have your students tell you about bad days they have had. Then talk more about Clifford's bad day and why it was bad. Tell your class that you will read them another story that is about a boy named Alexander and he has a very bad day. Encourage the students to tell you what Alexander and Clifford have in common. Make a list of the things that were alike in the two texts and the things that were different. - Colleen www.teachingheart.net Pre reading: Construct a Venn Diagram (on red paper or in red marker?). Use this to compare/contrast things large pets and small pets can do well, and those that both can do well. If you haven't told the students what the new unit is about, invite them to guess a famous pet they will be learning more about. Ask students to add any details about large and small pets they may have left out before reading. After reading, have the students answer the questions below. If the answer is yes, students will answer "Woof, Woof!" Cliffords owner is Amy Elizabeth. (F) - Clifford is a big, red dog.(T) - Clifford is the biggest dog on the street. (T) - Clifford can ride on Emily. (F) Clifford brings a policeman back when playing fetch. (F) - We can always find Clifford in hide-and-seek. - When camping, Clifford roasts the hot dogs. (F) Clifford makes a good tent. (T) - Clifford can sit up and beg. (T) - Clifford is perfectly behaved. (F) - Clifford chases and catches cars. (T) - Zoo lions scare Clifford. (F) - Clifford chews shoes.(T) - Clifford is a terrible watchdog. (F) - Clifford gets a bath in a swimming pool. (T) Clifford wins first prize in the dog show. (F) Fold a large paper into three sections for each student. After reading both stories ask students to (1) draw a picture of Clifford as a small puppy, (2) a medium puppy, and (3) as a large puppy. I printed an open font which read; Clifford, the Small Red Puppy by Norm Bridwell. I then cut and pasted the heading to fit three on each paper. I ran enough copies for all my students. They colored the writing red and glued it to the top of their sequential drawings. have students brainstorm a list of pet care needs for Clifford as a grown dog. Help students to list good
manners. You might also want to turn these into a
class book by letting each child give you an example of
good manners, you write or type then print it out and let
the child illustrate. Bind together and place in
the reading area. I bought the scholastic book Cooking With Clifford which comes with 3 cookie cutters. I use the bone shaped cookie cutter to make sugar cookies and sprinkle them with red sprinkles. - Grace After reading Clifford's Birthday Party by Norman Bridwell, have students complete this story frame. I would get Clifford a __________ for his birthday. Illustrate the sentence. You could have children bring in a gift for Clifford wrapped up and have a real party for Clifford! |
Some great Clifford Products to make your theme fun - click on a
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Clifford
the Big Red Dog: Clifford's Singalong Adventure |
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Some Ideas From CDROM # 4
Estimate
Bones Is Snail’s or Clifford’s doghouse larger? __________________________________________ I think more bones will fit in _____________ doghouse than ______________ doghouse. I estimate that ______________ bones will fit in Clifford’s doghouse. I estimate that ______________ bones will fit in Snail’s dog house. After they have made their estimations, have them cut out the bones. Now they can see how many fit inside each house. You may want them to answer the following: _________________ bones fit into Clifford’s doghouse. __________________ bones fit into Snail’s doghouse. How many more bones fit inside Clifford’s doghouse than in Snail’s doghouse? _______________________________ more bones. How close were your estimates to the facts? Would you like the manipulatives and activity sheets to match this activity? They are found on CDROM #4 - Click Here to Learn More!!! |
Clifford's Bone Graph Would you like this activity sheet? This is found on CDROM # 4 - Click Here to Learn More!!! |
Clifford's Bone Match Center Would you like the manipulatives and activity sheets to match this activity? They are found on CDROM #4 - Click Here to Learn More!!! |
Clifford's
Good Deeds Classbook CDROM # 4 Includes a cover for your class book and a writing sheet for your student to share their feelings and ideas about good deeds. - Click to learn more. |
Clifford's
Good Deeds - sequence cards (k-2)
Would you like these patterns? They are found on CDROM # 4 - Click to learn more! |
HELP CLIFFORD FILL HIS DOG HOUSE! You can place the center in a pocket chart or in a Ziploc baggie. You can also give each student their own set and work with these as a group or allow the students to take them home for practice. The student must match a dog house to a picture. Each doghouse has a letter on it. The student must find a picture that begins with that letter sound. The student lays the picture on the dog house.
Would you like these patterns? They are found on CDROM # 4 - Click to learn more! |
Roll For Bones Dice Game - student rolls dice and colors in the rolled number of bones on their game board. First player to color in all their bones wins the game. Would you like this gameboard. It is found on CDROM # 4 - Click to learn more! |
The Missing Beach Ball Sentence Sequence Print the sentences below on sentence strips. Place them in a pocket chart. Use
them to retell the story. --Clifford,
Cleo, and T-Bone go to the beach. Would you like these on sentence strip ready to print? Would you like a center sheet to match this? You can get these on CDROM # 4. - Click to learn more! |
Great ideas from teachers!
I also bring in a box of dog bones for an estimation activity. The child that has the closest estimate gets the dog bones to take home to their dog..if they have a dog..if not..I have a collection of dog prizes (stickers, pencils, note pads etc they can choose from.) I teach first grade so I let my students partner read Clifford books on the floor...with Clifford...I have a collection of stuffed Cliffords so there is enough for partners to share one. We do a venn diagram comparing two Clifford books that we have read that day. We make clifford headbands (with floppy ears) and I paint their noses black. I also have a Clifford take home bag that we pass around during our Clifford unit. It has Clifford books, a stuffed Clifford, a writing journal and some take home activities. I bought it at www.backpacksbyjenny.com. We also wear red on that day and i cover their desks with red bulletin board paper and they are allowed to draw a big Clifford on their paper for morning work as they come in that morning. I model drawing Clifford for them so they have an idea on how to get started and I have a huge red clifford hanging in the room that says, "Hooray, It's Clifford Day!" - Grace |
Other things we did I made a sheet with little bones on it and at the top put one is red four are brown two are yellow six are blue etc. and then the kids had to color that number of bones to match the colors. - Posted by Lis/1 on 6/13/02 |
We made Puppy Chow- 1 stick of butter |
We made Clifford dog ears with sentence strip and two red ears on the sides and the kids wrote "I see big Clifford." (remember this was kindergarten) Those looked really cute. We did dog bone printing...dog bones dipped in tempera. Make sure you get the bones that are flat on one side. We also made paw prints by using palm of hand and fingertips for toes. We played Clifford, Clifford where's your bone? We made Clifford by folding a triangle shaped piece of red paper. If you fold each side over from the ends it looks like ears and the middle is the face. I had another picture with Clifford on it and at the bottom numbers. I had drawn sets of bones. The kids cut out the number words at the bottom to match the bone sets and glued them in a space. We didn't do this but you can also make dog houses out of popsicle sticks. We made yarn dogs. I had an outline of Clifford and the children cut yarn (some cut, some just made the yarn go around and around) to fill Clifford in. Posted by Lis/1 on 6/13/02 |
Each Clifford story starts with similar lines. “Hi, my name is Emily Elizabeth and this is my dog Clifford.’ Preprint one for each student; “Hi, my name is (student) and this is my (pet) (pet's name). (Pet's name) likes _____________. Glue these onto large sheets of paper and distribute to students. Assist them in the writing as needed and instruct them to draw a picture of themselves and their pet or a pet they would like to have if they don’t own one. Compile into a class book and place at the reading center. - Kelly/k/wa |
BULLETIN BOARD IDEA |
1. On my door, I have the caption 'A Dog-gone Great Class'. I put a schoolhouse w/ dogs inside (from Carson Dellosa) on my door and put either Clifford or another dog on the door by the schoolhouse. I put the children's names on little dog bones and paw prints. 2. On my calender, I have a Clifford decoration holding a flag. Beside that I have poems from Melissa's website (I LOVE her Clifford ideas!) that we recite in the morning. 3. I have Clifford books displayed on my chalkboard ledge for the kids to browse through. 4. I have a few stuffed Cliffords. The helper of the day gets to sit all day w/ Clifford at his/her desk. 5. I have a b.b. that says "Presenting Clifford". I have my kids to make a red construction paper Clifford head using an oval, ear cut-outs, & facial features. 6. For my home-school connection, I'm starting something new this year. It's called Clifford Packs. I use a 10 by 13 manilla envelop and decorate the outside of it w/ pages from Clifford coloring books (ex. Clifford w/ a birthday cake for the Happy Birthday Clifford Pack). Inside the envelop I include a Clifford story, poetry/songs related to the pack (ex. if the pack is about Weather, then there are poems about rain, etc. in that pack), little file folder games related to the pack (these aren't necessarily Clifford games, just something related to the pack), and lastly a student & a parent journal.The other idea isn't my own-it's borrowed. The second home-school connection is using a stuffed Clifford to travel to each child's home. Clifford is accompanied w/ a journal for families to record what adventures Clifford has while w/them. 7. This year, I'm very lucky to be participating in a Travel Buddy program w/ great teachers from this chatboard. Our class is sending guess who....Clifford!!!! I plan to have a lot of fun mapping Clifford's adventures to other parts of the United States. Should be a super learning experience. 8. I have a pocket chart that manages my literacy centers. I have colored Cliffords that designate each center area (ex. red Clifford is reading, blue Clifford is math, yellow Clifford is Phonics, etc.) Then in my classroom I have the same colored Cliffords in different areas to designate work areas for that center. Ex. The red Clifford might be by my desk to designate "the reading area" or the blue Clifford might be by the door to designate the math area. That way students have a particular work area to go to during literacy centers. 9. One thing I'd like to figure out is a way to incorpate Clifford into my behavior management. I use 'turn a card'. I was thinking about putting the children's names on colored bones, but don't know what to do after that...move the bones to a dish or something????? These great ideas are from - Laurie/1st |
Some of my favorite Clifford Books - click on a book to learn
more!
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Great ideas for centers
For a center I had pictures of Cliffords with numbers on them and dog bones (the biscuit kind that are real). The children matched that number of bones to the picture. - Posted by Lis/1 on 6/13/02 |
Dog Bones Use dog biscuits and two plastic “doggie” bowls to make addition practice “dog gone fun!” Program red, dog shaped cards with appropriate addition problems. Students choose a card, put the number of the first addend in the first bowl, and the number of the second addend in the second bowl. Then instruct students to count the dog bones altogether. You may want them to copy the problems and answers onto a piece of paper or whiteboard. - Carol |
Using red dog cards again, trace a given number of dog biscuit outlines on the cards. Students put the correct number of biscuits on each card. They may put the cards and biscuits in sequential order. - Carol |
Draw, duplicate or whatever pictures
of a doghouse on several sheets of construction
paper. I usually use half sheets. Also have a
supply of small dog biscuits or paper "dog
bones" available. Write a number and/or
number word 1-10 or whatever you want the children
to practice counting; one on each doghouse. You
could use the words 'first, second, third,
etc.". Laminate or cover the
construction paper if possible. Students put the
houses in sequential order and then place the correct
number of small dog biscuits or bone cutouts on the
paper. You can add patterning by using different
colors of construction paper, doghouses, or dogs. - Carol |
Match letters (on dog dishes) with clipart beginning sound pictures (on dog houses). |
I have a pocket chart that manages my literacy centers. I have colored Cliffords that designate each center area (ex. red Clifford is reading, blue Clifford is math, yellow Clifford is Phonics, etc.) Then in my classroom I have the same colored Cliffords in different areas to designate work areas for that center. Ex. The red Clifford might be by my desk to designate "the reading area" or the blue Clifford might be by the door to designate the math area. That way students have a particular work area to go to during literacy centers. |
Links To Clifford Printables or Activity Sheets!
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My Favorite Clifford Links - Sites filled with great classroom ideas!
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