Sarah, Plain and Tall

"Outside, the prairie reached out and touched the places where the sky came down."

His first assignment was to take a description from the text and make a picture. I taught him the "rule of thirds" in the art world so that he didn't make his sky and grass meet half way. He got to experiment with making the grass small and the sky enormous using Prismacolor pencils.

In this version he made the sky a sliver and the prairie huge. Out of the two I like this one better. E9 likes the other one because this one reminds him of being like an animla on the ground. Either way it was a most enjoyable assignment!

These are the dividers for the different notebooking sections. There's a big focus on the ocean and the prairie during this unit so he'll be adding a lot to these sections. However, if they get too big we can always pull them out. The other sections are ELA (English/Language Arts) and Social Studies.

The new notebook- E9 likes it when I make a copy of the book cover and use the Xyron machine to get it to permanently attach to the front of the folder.