Dear Crayola, Please add to your color choices.

Before the winter break, I asked my students to work on a project to showcase their knowledge of text features.  We'd spent the month of December analyzing graphics, bolds, italics, charts, and text structures in different articles, and I wanted them to create their own magazine or web pages.

One student was writing about our class and had sketched a picture of her and me in the classroom.  She had colored almost everything in the picture and had her hand up insistently, so I went to her desk.

"Mrs. Carlson, what color do I use for this, and this?" she pointed to my neck and arms.  She was already a beautiful chocolate color, and my clothes were all shaded in.  I had to tell her that orange or yellow were her best bets, given the limited option in the Crayola 10-count marker box.

I love the questions students ask.