Last week was the first week of school. Every year during the first week, the classroom teachers read the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. This is a very adorable book about a mouse named Chrysanthemum, who was teased about her name on the first day of school.
To tie our artwork into this book, I had each student pretend that they were a mouse in Chrysanthemum's class. We then drew a mouse portrait of ourselves. I taught my students how to draw a mouse, which was drawn in black marker. Students then colored everything with crayon. Lastly, the students drew things about themselves in the boarder.
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These are just too cute!
Very gorgeous! I love the personalization :)
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