What's so special about you? Use Crayola® Colored Pencils and Watercolors to display your talents and hobbies in words and pictures.

• 1.

  With Crayola Colored Pencils, write a list of activities that you do especially well. List the hobbies, topics, and ideas that you are most interested in, too.

• 2.

  On one side of a large sheet of paper, use Crayola Washable Markers to draw your profile (a side view of your face) as if you were speaking.

• 3.

  Design a large thought bubble coming from your mouth. Inside the thought bubble, draw pictures of your interests and skills.

• 4.

  Cover your work area with recycled newspaper. Use Crayola Watercolors and Watercolor Brushes to paint your picture. Mix colors to create tints and shades, intense and pale colors. Dry on a flat surface.

• 5.

  Add words to open areas using colored pencils. Introduce your tale to classmates.

Standards

• LA: Read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band independently and proficiently.
• LA: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• LA: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• LA: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).
• LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• LA: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• SS: Identify and describe ways family, groups, and community influence the individual's daily life and personal choices.
• VA: Intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of experiences and ideas.
• VA: Select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of ideas.

Adaptations

• Students use their "Telling My Tale" artwork to introduce themselves to classmates as an opening-of-the-year introduction.
• Have on hand in the classroom a variety of short biographies of famous persons. After reading the biographies, students create "Telling My Tale" artwork about their self-selected famous people. Classmates attempt to determine the identities of the famous people through the artwork.
• Using a large white board and Crayola Dry Erase Markers, students create a "Telling My Tale" template on the board with a female profile on one side of the board and a male profile on the opposite site. Sketch in 4-5 thought bubbles between the profiles. Provide students with the opportunity to introduce a classmate to the class by writing descriptors in the thought bubbles that help identify the unknown classmate. Examples could be, "This person is a terrific soccer goalie" or "This classmate has blue eyes." How many attempts will it take for someone to guess correctly?
• Use the white board/dry erase marker format to introduce various animals under study to classmates. In place of profiles, students may include a portion of the habitat that the animals live in.