Peacock TK Art gallery

Last night I ran into the word "peacock" twice, as I was hashing out an idea for my TK class. We are studying birds, coincidentally, and I was thinking of our Thursday craft/art idea exhausted by the year,  trying to get an idea off the ground just a little too last minute. First in that search,  I ran into a blog with K bird art, and a masterful bunch of art pieces the blogger's students made about peacocks. Gosh. I can't find it now, darn,  which is driving me crazy and I'll include the link once I do find it.  (Their art blows mine away sadly)And so I refer you to a million amazing images that I did NOT see from the net.

This project used chalk, lovely chalks-pastels- so I was interested as we have really not done a chalk project this TK year, and I own a huge bags of pastels. Then later in the evening, on my private Facebook, I saw an article about a local peacock that was injured yesterday in a bad car crash. Fred's kind of famous locally.  I was looking at that news thinking-what a weird coincidence that I just thought of drawing peacocks and out of the blue-peacock news. It gets a little weirder too, as just now as I shared their drawings I brought home with my son -he shows me on his new phone a pic of Fred in actual surgery. Amazingly his friend's mother is the vet trying to save Fred. He's got a horrible looking broken leg. So I thought-how could this be happening?
And why?
A lot to share with my 5 year olds tomorrow morning, as I try to search out some writing link my little TK can handle on peacocks. Perhaps I'll make one up. Maybe something will plop down from the same coincidence this all spun from, as many of my lessons do evolve-or did- prior to a national obsession with standard and same pages. But this program allows me some room for invention and I love it.

So today my students tried to draw a peacock, just from here up-head and tail. To be honest I was trying this just as a way to show a few peacock feathers I have, and talk about feathers on birds, to extend into something they could do. I wanted them to observe the feathers. And I didn't really talk enough to do this project well...sometimes my timing is off. I need to rehearse and I can never rehearse. Here at home tonight I am thinking about how I did as the teacher. Just c-.
The kids though made very nice artwork. They've come a long way. A lonnnggggg way.