- colored pencils or chalk
- drawing paper
- Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant (book)
- direction
- down
- illustration
- illustrator
- left
- night
- right
- slant
- straight line
- stroke, up
MA Standards:
Writing/W.PK.MA.2: Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Colored Pencil Night Drawings
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Show children the illustration of the raccoon and her babies in Night in the Country. Talk about how the illustrator made the lines in the illustration with the strokes of a colored pencil. Many of the strokes are very short lines that slant in different directions. Move your finger along some of the pencil strokes. Encourage children to draw a night scene using colored pencils. Ask children to tell you about their drawings.