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Today read several cloud books and then learn how to make your own creative cloud book.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite things to do when I was a little girl was to lie on my back and look up at the sky. When I laid very still and looked up, I thought I could actually feel the world twirling. It really didn’t matter if it was day or night, I loved the sky. I loved the vastness of it. I loved the wide range of colors from light gray to black and all those lovely blues in between. Although I found the sky interesting no matter what was going on, oh how I dearly loved the puffy cumulus clouds drifting across periwinkle skies! To say I could watch them for hours was no exaggeration. As a child we often took cross country trips and it was always a treat when we were accompanied by cotton candy\u00a0masses of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere. My brothers and I would find shapes in the clouds and eagerly watch for them to morph into something else.<\/p>\n

Oh, who am I kidding? I still love to watch the clouds. Sometimes I imagine my grandma\u2019s gamboling across the sky on one, looking down and waving. Sometimes I watch for storms. Other times I just love to see shapes. When I’m feeling particularly introspective, I imagine the sky to be a giant teacup and I read the clouds as if they were tea leaves. The sky. What a treat!<\/p>\n

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Summer is a great time to do some serious cloud watching. If you are observing\u00a0the sky with wee ones, when you come inside, why not\u00a0read one of these “cloudy” books. All three cloud books are personal favorites of mine that I have shared with my preschool classes and own children. Check them out on Amazon or your local library.<\/p>\n

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The Cloud Book<\/em> can be found HERE<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
It Looked Like Spilt Milk<\/em> can be found HERE<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
Little Cloud<\/em> can be found HERE<\/a>.<\/h5>\n

These cloud books and the cloud craft are also scheduled in our Puddles and Ponds Homeschool Companion unit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When you are done reading the cloud books, make your very own book fashioned after It Looked Like Spilt Milk<\/a><\/em>. We made a class book every year when I taught preschool, and it was always a well loved activity and a much enjoyed class book. Must admit I had a lot of fun today when I was making the book for this tutorial. Shhh. I am sending it to Little Guy and Little Lady and asking them to make me their very own cloud picture.<\/p>\n

Materials for Cloud Book:<\/h3>\n