In First Grade social studies, students learn about how and why families are important. Connecting to this concept, in the Art Studio first grade students were asked to draw an intial sketch of their family. Students were introduced to the work of Mary Cassat, as the mentor artist for our unit, and students analyzed the different family relationships that could be shown,and how Cassat captured moments of connection in various way. They also brainstormed additional family relationships (such as pets, baby-sitters, honorary aunts, etc) and many different possible moments of interaction. We also made a literacy connection by emphasizing the idea of a small moment that they had learned about in writing. Students then went back to their sketchbook to develop a sketch that would capture a particular small moment between two to three family members. They were next introduced to the concept of "zooming in" as a way to use the space of the page more fully and create greater intimacy between the artwork and the viewer, and again worked to revise their plan in their sketchbook. They then experimented with the use of oil-pastels in their sketchbook, recreated their planned sketch on good paper using chalk to lightly block out their composition, and, finally, worked to complete their pieces by applying oil pastels using the techniques they had learned.