Fifth graders practiced posing for each other and making quick gesture sketches to capture the action of a figure. Next, we looked at the pictograms of the upcoming Winter Olympics and drew the figures using the same steps as our gestures - a quick stick figure with a squiggle drawn over, as if a string were wrapping around the body. Then we finished it off with a black silhouette, and we reviewed our knowledge of the color wheel with our painted backgrounds.