Giraffes Can't Dance

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You have now finished your toy! I hope you found my free crochet giraffe pattern easy to follow and enjoyed making the giraffe! ACTIVITY: Ask students to think of a problem they've solved. They should identify the cause of the problem and how understanding it helped them find a solution. Take advantage of this AMAZING OFFER! Open an Etsy shop using this link and list your first 40 items FREE! ACTIVITY: Discuss emotions as causes and their effects on our actions. Students can provide examples from their own lives. Write a report about giraffes. Where do they live in the wild? What do they eat? Do they have any special adaptations?

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. We’ll cover all that Exeter is talking about, every day. We will keep you in the know about what’s happening seven days a week - but there’ll be so much more than just news. We’ll cover all that Exeter is talking about, every day. Giraffe looks at the moon and says how beautiful he thinks it is. Can you draw your own beautiful night scenes?

Cause and Effect in Plot Development: The story's plot is driven by cause and effect relationships. Gerald's decision to dance in his own way (cause) leads to the other animals' admiration (effect). 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.

Ofsted Audit tool meeting expectations for Intent, Implementation and Impact through the SCARF coherent, sequential curriculum 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. Gerald assumed that because he was clumsy, he couldn’t dance. Is that a good assumption for him to make? Why or why not?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. He somewhat cares about himself being tall, but he is a nice friend. Gerald also appears to be a life-saver because he rescued Tiddles and a ball. He dislikes hide and seek and is very shy. 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? Use the dancing giraffe template to make your own giraffe with moving limbs. Can you make the giraffe dance?? (see Resources below) 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?

Place the cut out giraffes directly onto the wet paint. Extra glue can be added later (another time saver!)

Summary

Cut and paste sorting worksheet – sort Gerald’s character traits into beginning of the story and end of the story. ACTIVITY: Discuss with students why Gerald acts the way he does and what motivates him. Why does Gerald want to dance? What makes him keep trying even when others laugh at him? 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?

You may find these Amigurumi tutorials handy before you get started with this free crochet giraffe pattern. And don’t forget to watch my step by step video tutorials for extra help with my patterns. ACTIVITY: Create worksheets with passages or illustrations from the Giraffes Can't Dance. Ask students to write down their inferences and the clues they used to make them. Visit my free Amigurumi patterns for more crochet toys you will love! More Free Amigurumi patterns for you to enjoy: Inferring Character Traits: The story allows students to infer character traits based on characters' actions and words. For instance, students can infer Gerald's determination from his decision to dance in his own way. The author wrote ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ after a trip to Kenya. Can you find Kenya on a map / globe? How is it similar / different to where you live?ACTIVITY: Ask students to identify an action of a character and discuss what trait caused that action. This helps them understand the link between traits and behaviour. Cause: Gerald, the giraffe, believes he can't dance like the other animals. Effect: Gerald feels sad and different from everyone else. This Amigurumi giraffe reminds me so much of this book we used to read to our daughter when she was little. The story was about a giraffe called Gerald who could not dance and it was one of our daughter’s favourites. So, of course, I had no choice…I simply had to call my free crochet giraffe pattern ‘Gerald the Giraffe’! 🙂 Why don’t you have a go at making it and see if you can teach your giraffe dance the ‘Jungle tango’! 🙂 What do you see in this picture? (a group of animals playing music, dancing, talking, and laughing at a gathering like a party ) Warthogs’ and ‘walzing’ are examples of alliteration. Can you think of other alliterative phrases that feature an animal doing something unusual, e.g. ‘koalas doing karate, hopping hedgehogs).