Looking closely at the detail in the autumn trees.

The girls stood on the verandah of the Foundation Class and looked around them.
I asked them if they could see any Autumn trees.

Immediately they noticed one off in the distance, so we set off to find it.

Once located, we engaged in a discussion about the colours of the leaves, the texture of the bark and the way in which the trunk was large and the branches got smaller and smaller
as they reached the leaves. 

The bark was a point of interest and the girls represented this in different ways on their sketches. They spotted a circle on the trunk where a branch had been cut off but they preferred to think of this as a fairy house. Keira, Eloise, Luca and Joyce's sketches captured the
fairy house on their tree trunks.

In our drawings you can see some of the detail the girls picked up on. Joyce included a sign that was at the bottom of her drawing as well as some leaves that she noticed sailing to the 

ground as we were talking.

 Joyce

 Kate

 Keira

 Luca

Eloise

 Zoe

The next step is painting them!