Eric Carle as Mentor Author

We have enjoyed studying Eric Carle's craft and techniques over the past few weeks. We learned that he writes literary non-fiction books mostly about animals. 

In science we have been researching and learning about 4 types of insects: ladybug, butterfly, cricket, and honeybees. In reading we have been gaining more facts about these insects through Eric Carle books. In writing, we created our own insect literary non-fiction books with Eric Carle as our mentor. 

We learned that Eric Carle makes a tissue paper collage to crest his beautiful illustrations. Of course, we had to try it out!  We began by painting our paper:

Then, we pasted the painted paper into a collage to create the illustration:

The students worked so hard on these literary nonfiction insect books!