This week we finished our self portraits. The students drew themselves and brought in photos of things that are important in their lives. They used magazines to add to their collages of pictures and used that to decorate their shirts. We made these portraits to be a visual helper for writing. We learned writers write about their own lives and passions, so we made self portraits to show our lives and passions! The kids were SUPER excited and they did a great job!
Check them out!
Her writing reads "I like me and my little brother because he was two years old and so tiny! Did my little brother tiny, yes? I love you." (love it!)
This friend learned the word "brunch" when making his collage. Yay for vocabulary!
My personal favorite portrait! He worked for three days making his hair! And he made his eye brows out of yarn. Obviously our resident artist. It looks just like him. Precious! Also, who doesn't love a good picture of a dinosaur??I've decided next year I will make these portraits at the beginning of the year when we do our community building part of writer's workshop. So fun, and the kids worked so hard! Couldn't be prouder!
We also learned about Groundhog Day together this week. The kids had listened to Substitute Groundhog in the listening center and we read Double Trouble Groundhog Day together. Then we made this graph to see who was Pro-shadow and who was for No shadow.
As you can see, we are ready for SPRING!!Then we made buttons to show our support for our Pro or No shadow cause. The kids really liked making and wearing the buttons. I told them that this year Phil did NOT see his shadow, so Spring should be coming soon. But while we were working on our buttons, it started to snow!! Our faith in Phil has faltered... But we still had a delightful day!
Gearing up now for 100th day on Tuesday! Can't wait to do all our fun activities. I'm working on getting permission slips so I can post pics and videos soon. Should be a great week.
