teacher guide snow foxes
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Use Visual Thinking Strategies to examine the artwork below
Use Visual Thinking Strategies to examine the artwork below
Read Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
https://goo.gl/t6ghCX
What is the fox doing on this page of Over and Under the Snow?
About Red Foxes in Winter
- Grow thicker coats to stay warm in winter
- Instead of a den, red foxes will curl up in the open. The red foxes wraps its bushy tail around itself to stay warm.
Read a selected poems about winter from Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies
https://goo.gl/sX3lge
Who are the characters in the poems?
What are the poems about?
When do the poems happen?
Where do the poems happen?
How do the pictures help you know more about the poems?
How do you think the pictures in Outside Your Window: A First
Book of Nature were made?
Why do you think this?
The illustrator of Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature is named Mark Hearld. He used
special stamps he made, paint, and colored pencils to make the art.
N.C Wyeth is a famous artist who also illustrated books. He also has artwork of a fox that is in a book.
“Men of Concord” Endpaper IllustrationN.C. Wyeth1935
Winslow Homer is a famous painter. He often painted animals in nature.
Fox HuntWinslow Homer1893
How are these artworks alike? How are they different?
“Men of Concord” Endpaper IllustrationN.C. Wyeth1935
Fox HuntWinslow Homer1893
Fox IllustrationMark Hearld2012
Where you put objects in an artwork gives it depth
Foreground
Middle ground
Background
Where are the background, middle ground, and foreground?
Where are the background, middle ground, and foreground?
Background
Middle ground
Foreground
Using what you know about foreground, middle ground, and background: Create
an artwork of a fox in the snow
You will self-grade your artwork
Is your fox hiding from a another
predator?
Is your fox hunting?
Add any extras you need to tell your story now.
Look at the details of this fox by
Mark Hearld. Did he use 1 color or many colors to
make his fox look furry?
Writing about your artwork
Self grade your artwork