Camey Art (first day of school)

Our first day into the 2013-2014 school year. 5th/4th/3rd/2nd/1st are doing three things. 1) review the art room rules, there's only 4 so it takes all of 5 minutes. 2)our essential question "Why do artists use animals as their subject matter?" 3)look at some artwork throughout history based on animals and then create an artwork of an animal. Students have three ways to go about making their artwork, 1)they could just draw from their imagination 2)use idea sheets(old national geographic images)3)use how to draw books (purchased by me from 1/2 priced books)Photo below, if I knew how to flip it I would...I'll be posting some artwork and answers to the essential question later this week..keep posted!