The best part of this lesson based on the paintings of Monet, is that every child can work independently and achieve success in reaching the goals related to working with line, color, space, and symmetry. Using oil pastels, students explore line in creating trunks, branches and twigs of trees. The reflection of the trees in the water is done by folding the paper and burnishing the tree design with a wide popsicle stick. Finally the color of the ground, sky, and water are done with washes of watercolors. This lesson can be coordinated with science units of the seasons.