illustration of the day

As they were finishing their tests on weather and seasons today, my fifth grade students were getting rowdy (well, more rowdy than normal) so I told them all to draw a picture for teacher Michelle on the back of their test. I got pictures of cats and bunnies and flowers and asian cartoon characters.. a couple brown nosers drawing an asian me ("beautiful teacher", they write) and rainbows and I LOVE YOUs. Other kids haven't got the fine motor skills down, so I got some black and grey blobs which maybe resembled cars, maybe radishes, hard to tell. One kid, though, drew me an elaborate scene in which an elephant wearing a top hat is targeted by a band of poachers wielding machine guns and grenades...

Mr. Elephant
(I've edited out most of the gratuitous violence)