adverbs Next they had their D E A R Drop Everything and Read time Then they fi lled out their reading journals Finally it was time to go to art Raymond really liked art He said Art is my best subject besides lunch Raymond sat behind Daisy in class He had given her a special souvenir when they went to the museum After that Blanca said Raymond likes you Daisy Daisy thought Blanca was being tonta But then she started to notice that Raymond was always willing to share one of his lunches with her He never offered nachos or pizza to any of the other kids at the table Today they would have art with Min’s class Ms Browner was the art teacher She said You can always remember my name because it has the color brown in it Isn’t that great I just love colors She really did too 8
The art room was a large sunny room with lots of windows Ms Browner had painted two of the walls a sunny yellow and two of the walls a bright sky blue Pictures of famous paintings vases of sunfl owers and interesting sculptures were everywhere you looked Ms Browner liked to inspire young artists Maps of South America and Mexico were on the wall Daisy noticed on one counter there were small carved and painted animals She had seen them in Oaxaca Mexico when her family visited relatives there Ms Browner had written the words Folk Art on the whiteboard Under those words their art teacher had written the names Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo She explained that the artists were married to each other Diego painted murals Frida created paintings At the end of art class Ms Browner gave the students choices for an art project that 9
would be due the next Friday Students could work in a group on a mural or individually on a painting pot or carving I’m carving a frog Raymond said Madison Lizzie and Amber were going to paint a mural Daisy and Min decided to paint a picture I will make a pot Blanca said I think I might be the only kid making one Daisy said Hey that’s kind of cool I bet lots of kids choose painting Ms Lilly was at the door calling All of my superstar students come and line up for lunch Everyone was talking in the hall They were so excited about the Folk Art projects Ms Lilly stopped the line I would rather be a cheerleader than a cop so cool it kiddos The noise stops now she said in her toughest voice 10
Everyone stopped talking No one wanted to disappoint Ms Lilly not even Madison They stopped at room 210 and some kids went in to get their lunch boxes Daisy grabbed hers Blanca saved Daisy a place in line Then they walked down the hall to the cafeteria On the way Daisy saw another poster It said Come to the Annual Fall Festival Daisy pointed to it and Blanca nodded They would talk about it some more at lunch but right now they were trying to be super quiet 11
