Picture Book Marathon 2011 - Day 3

I'll let you folks decide what this one is about.

It's funny.  I didn't always hate Math.  We used to get along.  But somewhere in the middle of the 4th Grade we had a falling out.  It got really bad for a while; we couldn't even be in the same room without someone getting angry.

It's not like that anymore.  I don't really hate math, I've grown out of that.  Sometimes Math and I pass on the street.  We smile and wave but that's about it.  We both know that if we ever tried again to be more than just casual acquaintances it would all end in tears.  So we just steer clear of that pitfall.

And we're both much happier for it.

Counting in Chinese

Some more stuff from work. This is a book teaching counting from one to ten in Chinese. Who is more appropriate to teach this than the Monkey King? Nobody, that's who.

In the story the Monkey King is born from a rock and then, seeing he is alone, creates multiples of himself from his hairs. Then he has ten friends. Count them.

Pretty fun idea for a counting book.

A New School Year

Being married to a sixth grade teacher has it's advantages.  I regularly get to come into her class and teach art lessons, which is very fun.  I also get to do fun stuff like decorate the outside of her classroom.  If you read this blog regularly then you might remember this from last year.

This year Tiff decorated her room with monkeys so I drew a bunch of monkeys holding name tags.  I didn't have time to draw a big scene for the monkeys to climb around in so I made a huge piece of notebook paper.  It fits.

I think I draw better than I did at this time last year.  I had fun with this.  (Also, if you look closely at the names you will see that Tiff is teaching Donny Osmond's kid this year.  He's a cool kid.)