Donald Crews (born August 30, 1938) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. In 2015, the American Library Association (ALA) honored him with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, recognizing his lasting contribution to children's literature. Common subjects of his include modern technology (especially travel vehicles), and childhood memories. His stories often include few humans. I found it interesting that these two reviewers had such different opinions of the book. While one found the book’s premise to be fun, vibrant, and interesting, the other thought it was contrived and unoriginal. Instruct them to use the pencil to draw a picture that uses some of the dots the way we have been talking about. (You can use all of them, but you don’t have to. Use as many as you would like for your picture.) When done, they can color drawing with markers. Crews was drafted into the army in 1963, and sent to Frankfurt, Germany. Their first daughter, Nina was born in Germany, and their second was born a year later in New York. Nina is also an award-winning children's book author.

I love to make class books and place them in our classroom library. Students feel like their work has a purpose. They see themselves as young authors! In art we call this using our creativity- coming up with new ideas or looking at the same shape or form and seeing it in many different ways. We are using our imagination to create images in our minds that we draw on paper.)As these emerging writers work/create, teachers circulate about the room adding student names along with short narratives from students about their work explaining what they chose to create and how the art piece achieves this goal. Students will be able to identify patterns among the different sets of addends used to equal the sum of 10. Supply sheets pre-printed with dots that can be used as eyes or other things with a little direction. urn:oclc:310394530 Scandate 20100414173803 Scanner scribe9.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Source Students are at tables communicating about the different combinations of two numbers needed to get the sum of 10. Students are using numerals to represent the different ways they have combined two numbers to equal 10 by recording each combination onto their recording papers. The teacher is moving around, asking questions, observing work, making suggestions, and guiding when needed. The groups will clean up their material according to the instructions.

Two of his works were runners-up, or Caldecott Honor Books, for the ALA's annual award for picture book illustration, the Caldecott Medal. Five minutes into lesson: Prompt any students having difficulty coming up with ideas to look on board, or help them with ideas. Walk around to see how they are doing and give anyone who is done a marker to outline their drawing.From a young age, his talent for drawing was encouraged by his family and his teachers. When he got into high school, one of his teachers became a mentor to him, and personally made sure that he got into art school. Description: Students will discover the various ways they can combine two numbers to equal a sum of 10. Students will also identify patterns among the different sets of addends. Assessment: Did students work cooperatively in their groups to identify, record, and communicate the various ways to use two numbers to equal the sum of 10? Collect students’ recording papers.

Creativity: to be original, expressive, to come up with new ideas and new ways of looking at something. Brainstorming: is when a group of people works together to think of solutions for a specific problem by creating a list of ideas from their imagination.

What made you make a different picture than your friend? What did you use to make your picture different?