This will be a social justice and activism focus year for the 5th grade class. My goal will be to impress upon them that they can have the power to affect changes in their own world and that art can easily be a venue for their message. For this unit children will create paintings of shorebirds (and pelicans) in their habitats. Their paintings will organized into 12 pages and will be professionally printed on 2011 calendars sold to the school community as a fundraiser for The international Bird Rescue Research Center to help with the affects from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf.
But right now, we are just at the beginning stages of this process.....sketches.
Children use photographs of these birds and draws them on a self-made sketchbook.
Please note, these are just samples of work done by the students. Some children forgot to put their names on their work.
We also looked at some facts about the spill.
I used reproduction images from this book as a resource. 
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Ms. Cutelis,
I am so appreciative of your thoughtful approach to art for our children. The fifth grade focus on social justice is powerful and -- I hope -- will have a very positive long-term impact on our kids. Thank you.
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