Teacher guide snow foxes

2. Use Visual Thinking Strategies to
examine the artwork below

4. Use Visual Thinking Strategies to
examine the artwork below

6. Read Over and Under the Snow
by Kate Messner
https://goo.gl/t6ghCX

7. What is the fox doing on this page of
Over and Under the Snow?

8. About Red Foxes in Winter
- Grow thicker coats to stay
warm in winter
- Instead of a den, red foxes
will curl up in the open. The
red foxes wraps its bushy
tail around itself to stay
warm.

9. Read a selected poems about winter from
Outside Your Window: A First Book of
Nature by Nicola Davies
https://goo.gl/sX3lge

13. Who are the characters in the poems?

14. What are the poems about?

15. When do the poems happen?

16. Where do the poems happen?

17. How do the pictures help you know more
about the poems?

18. How do you
think the
pictures in
Outside Your
Window: A
First Book of
Nature were
made?
Why do you
think this?

19. The illustrator of Outside Your Window: A First
Book of Nature is named Mark Hearld. He used
special stamps he made, paint, and colored
pencils to make the art.

20. N.C Wyeth is a famous artist who also
illustrated books. He also has artwork of a
fox that is in a book.
“Men of Concord”
Endpaper Illustration
N.C. Wyeth
1935

21. Winslow Homer is a famous painter. He
often painted animals in nature.
Fox Hunt
Winslow Homer
1893

22. How are these artworks alike? How are
they different?
“Men of Concord”
Endpaper Illustration
N.C. Wyeth
1935
Fox Hunt
Winslow Homer
1893
Fox Illustration
Mark Hearld
2012

23. Where you put objects in an artwork
gives it depth
Foreground
Middle ground
Background

24. Where are the background, middle ground,
and foreground?

25. Where are the background, middle ground,
and foreground?
Background
Middle ground
Foreground

26. Using what you
know about
foreground, middle
ground, and
background: Create
an artwork of a fox
in the snow

27. You will self-grade your artwork

31. Is your fox hiding
from a another
predator?
Is your fox
hunting?
Add any extras
you need to tell
your story now.

33. Look at the
details of this fox
by Mark Hearld.
Did he use 1 color
or many colors to
make his fox look
furry?

43. Writing about your artwork

44. Self grade your artwork