The Smoke Jumper
The Smoke Jumper
“They were spread out along the back wall of the playground, all wearing their red and blue painting smocks. There was more chalk on their faces and smocks than was on the wall. It wasn’t every day that law-abiding junior citizens were given license to deface state property and they were sure making the most of it.
Julia had gotten the idea for the project after talking with Connor about her cave painting in the bedroom. The outside of the school was being redecorated and she asked Mrs Leitner, the principal, if her firstgrade class could do a little decorating of their own before the painters got there. They had spent the previous week talking about cave painting and looking at some reference books that Julia had found in the public library. She’d handed out photocopies of some Native American pictographs in Idaho and of some extraordinary rock paintings recently discovered in France.
Today came the climax, with the kids being let loose on the playground wall. Julia had divided the wa...ll into eight different ‘caves’ and the kids into eight ‘cave families.’ They had to imagine what they had been doing that day and depict it in colored chalk on their stretch of the wall.MoreLess
Julia had gotten the idea for the project after talking with Connor about her cave painting in the bedroom. The outside of the school was being redecorated and she asked Mrs Leitner, the principal, if her firstgrade class could do a little decorating of their own before the painters got there. They had spent the previous week talking about cave painting and looking at some reference books that Julia had found in the public library. She’d handed out photocopies of some Native American pictographs in Idaho and of some extraordinary rock paintings recently discovered in France.
Today came the climax, with the kids being let loose on the playground wall. Julia had divided the wa...ll into eight different ‘caves’ and the kids into eight ‘cave families.’ They had to imagine what they had been doing that day and depict it in colored chalk on their stretch of the wall.MoreLess
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