State Flower Component

 Hello, 4/5 families!
 The essays were tremendously good and I enjoyed reading them. We are taking a couple of class periods to share our trivia and props, and it's been very fun.
Now for the state flower:
This week's component is not too difficult, but it does require a certain thinking ahead.  The expectations are delineated very carefully for students with sequenced steps.  Following these steps is important to get the expected final product. If you find you need an extra paper, please let me know before Wednesday.

1.  Draw your state's flower freehanded.  While you can practice, no tracing of any kind is to be done.  The paper you'll use makes tracing even your own work nearly impossible. Go slow, use a light touch on your pencil and give yourself lots of time to get the picture you are happy with using.
2. Use only the white paper I give you for your flower drawing.  It's cut to the right shape and size.
3. Color with map pencils (colored pencils) only.
4. Outline your drawing with black fine point sharpie or uniball pen.
5. Mount your flower on the gray larger square supplied by school. It's cut to the correct size.
6. Glue your mounted flower on 8 1/2x11 white sheet of printer paper after you complete steps 8 and 9.
7.  Carefully and in smallish capital block letters write the name of your state's flower along all four edges of your mounted state flower on the gray part.  This creates a text border.
8.  Title your page:  name of your state State Flower.
9. At the bottom of the page: the state flower's name.
10.  For number 8 and 9 please use your computer to create the title and name.  It may be done in very neat handwritten thick Sharpie, carefully centered.  If you use Sharpie, use capital block letters.

There is a review the next two weeks for states and capitals.  March 8 will be a test using  their master list but concentrating on location. There will be a map put up which will be numbered differently and they will need to identify which states are which by location for #1-39.  Almost done!  11 more!

Thanks for all your hard work!