While I’d depended on August to be hot and dry, I hadn’t expected hot and wet. After canceling our art class one week because of a soaking downpour, I decided I should have an alternate plan for the next rainy art day. I communicated with mothers about the idea of taking the class to the Museum of Natural History to draw some of the animals on exhibit there. I provided hard-backed tablets and clipboards for drawing, along with assorted pencils, crayons, charcoal, erasers and plain white typing paper.
