The Gift Horse

I read a story to my first graders called The Gift Horse. This was a story about a young Lakota boy and his best friend/horse named Storm. The story tells of the Lakota boy and Storm's quest to become a Lakota warrior and how storm saves the boy's life in the process. From there, I taught the students how to draw a horse by breaking it down into simple shapes. Then I talked about tints and shades. The students were given black, white, brown, and blue paint. They could mix tints and shades that could then be applied to their horses. After they had dried, we used slick-sticks to draw symbols onto the horses and glued yarn on to make manes. Lastly, the students got to name their horse!