This month’s family homework (she has daily homework but one big project a month to complete with your family) was to make a portrait of yourself in fall with encouragement to use 3D items such as puffy paint, felt, stickers, etc.  Brooke and I brainstormed and thought it would be fun to make her portrait with leaves and actual fall items.  We gathered and stored various leaves, acorns, pine cones, flowers from our yard and other places around town for the last two weeks and yesterday and today completed her homework.  I helped her by sketching her and lightly painting in the details so she could glue the leaves over herself.  She chose where things went and glued them down, came up with using crushed leaves for her hair, and designed her necklace and headband.  Brooke did a great job with her homework!