Is Everyone Ready For Some Fun? Freebie

My friend Shelly just introduced me to this book. She found it in a recent Scholastic book order. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. The book is a great springboard for using speech bubbles, teaching verbs, using question marks and exclamation points, using onomatopoeia, and visual imagery through the text (words written in different sizes and fonts to show they are said louder or softer, etc. )

We focused on verbs for our lesson. We learned what verbs were. Then we acted out the verbs in the book and thought of other actions the cows could do on chicken's sofa. This book lends itself to lots of questions about the thoughts and feelings of the characters. 

My two most favorite ones...

Here is everything you need if you want to make the cows and use the speech bubbles. You can download the hair pattern and speech bubble for free here. 

Each student needs:

nose (1) 9x9 lt brown

head (1) 7x8 dk brown

ears (2) 2x6 dk brown

horns (2) 1 1/2x4 dk brown

eyes (2) 1 1/2x3 white

hair piece

Start with the head. Hold it upright so the short sides are at the top and the bottom. Clip the top corners and round. 

For the nose- clip all four corners and round. Use a black crayon to draw nostrils and mouth. Then glue onto head. Make the crayon lines first. They will smear if you draw them after there is wet glue on the face and nose. 

For the ears- Hold upright so the short sides are at the top and the bottom. Clip the top corners and round. Glue to the side of the cows head. 

For the hair- I precut these using the pattern. Have kids glue it on. 

For the horns- Hold upright so the short sides are at the top and the bottom. Clip the top corners and round. Glue to the top of the cows head, behind the hair.

For the eyes- clip all four corners and round. Use a black crayon to draw eyeballs. Glue onto the head.