They were sketching the many different shapes of leaves. A sketch is a fairly quick drawing done to capture certain important information. In this case, the shape of a leaf. This cricket was found in his little cave in a stone wall. It was the stone wall back under the first grade windows , the one nearest the loading dock.
Crickets are shiny.
Mrs. Taylor's gourd hanging from the tree got every class excited as they thought it was a hornet nest. We looked at it and saw it was not. The giant grass, miscanthus , amazed kids with its soft, glowing flower heads. Mulleins big fuzzy leaves are always popular. Here we are marching back to our classrooms.