By using Eric Carle's painting and then cutting out technique this version of The Hungry Caterpillar was created.  First we all painted different sheets of paper with different textures, movement, and colors for us to use when creating this.  We used Eric Carle's technique of drawing our piece first and then using it to trace around on the painted sheet to then paste it onto our paper to create our story.

Extension Project: Student could get put into groups to write a story of their choice.  Once their story is written students would then use this technique to add illustrations to their story.  By doing this there would be home made books created for the class and the students would use their writing skills and also their art skills to create something for the whole class to use and bring them back to when they have read Eric Carle books on their own.

My lei is pau!  First we used 2 different water color techniques to paint, I used crayon and dry brush.  Once we had painted our sheet we then cut out 20 different flowers out of colored construction paper.  We placed a hole punch in the middle of each.  We also cut out 4 flowers from out water color paper.  Once all of our flowers were cut out we cut short straw to put in between each flower.  After it was all strung we took a class photo with out lei's to show what we learned about Hawaiian culture.

Extension Project: This project could be connected to learning about other cultures in our classroom.  Each student could come in and talk about an aspect of their culture that means a lot to them and show us something that they would do to bring that piece of culture out more in their daily lives.  It could be something like lei's, food, or even animals.