Sunday, October 11, 2009

"On the Pulse of Morning"

My gorjus (yes, this week she is) Child has to do a 'home learning' project for Black History Month. So me being me, I decided not to go with the flow. I picked one of my favourite authors, Maya Angelou, and pulled up a poem of hers on the internet.
Yes, good old internet saves the day, again.
I'd never read this poem before, but at first glance, I could see that it had some good imagery that could be used for drawing.
So this afternoon, we sat down at the table and I gave her the suggestion of drawing these words. We used the very first line.
"A Rock, A River, A Tree"
Child wrote this down at the top of a piece of paper, phonetically (always very interesting) and then proceeded to draw a corresponding image.
On the next page, she wrote the very last line, "Good Morning" and did the same thing.
The result of which, were 4 very lovely and individual pictures.
I'm curious to see what her teacher will think of this project.

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