In the Classroom: The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp Come Alive (sort of).

My 4th graders enjoyed my reading aloud Kathi Appelt’s latest, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (my take on it is here) and so when some of them were at loose ends, having finished a big project their peers were still working on, I suggested they make a mural of the book. (I love making book murals! See the one we did ofThe Graveyard Bookand this one of When You Reach Me.) After talking through a few ideas, I left them to it. After a… er…redolent day when they used undiluted mod podget...