|Don't let the picture fool you. This photo was taken at the
begin of the year before the dementors, er, students entered the
scene. Now there's a drum kit where the rugs were and the third
grader's half-painted sarcophaguses (sarcophagui?) drying all
over the floor.| Our year long theme is the study of Ancient
Egypt (really? I had to tell you that? I'm kinda like Mrs.
Obvious, if you've not noticed). I chose this theme because of
the Egyptian exhibit at the local art museum that the majority
of my students field-tripped to. |Portrait of the Ancient
Egyptian god Horus.| |Ancient Egyptian god Osiris who is often
depicted the color green. We're guessing it has to do with all
that suffocating business.| |Learning the fine art of metal
tooling.| |So I backtracked. I created a colored pencil coloring
sheet (don't stop reading, hear me out) that involved creating a
gradation of values. There was also a little review on color
theory. Some got it and applied it to their drawings and some
didn't. But it did improve th