As a class we are reading the novel Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLauchlan - and we are LOVING it! In one of the chapters, the main character, Sarah, sketches the prairie using charcoal. I decided to recreate this experience for the students by allowing them to draw using artist's charcoal. We created sketch books and we drew the things that Sarah may have seen on the farm.
Drawing a windmill...
And a sheep...
And the prairie that rolls like the waves of the sea...
The kids worked so hard on their work and they enjoyed practicing different techniques with the charcoal.
Some of the techniques were rather, well, unique, but all of the art turned out beautifully!
Perhaps their favorite part was that it was allowed to be messy! Our hands were filthy afterwards and we looked like chimney sweeps! : )
Even better was the fact that today was our class picture day and the kids were wearing their best fancy clothes - yikes! But it just happened that picture day and chapter 5 coincided perfectly, so we had to be brave and go where most teachers dare not go- messy art work!
Next week we hope to take our charcoal sketchbooks outside to draw our own surroundings here at Coulson Tough. 
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