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Over the past 10 days the kindergarten students have been using themselves as inspiration and have been learning all about the elements and attributes that make them unique! In particular they have been working on drawing whole-body self portraits and using shapes to create their bodies. Shapes is a large part of the Kindergarten curriculum and while drawing with them student's were also able to further build upon their recall of shapes in Spanish. Ask to hear about shapes in Spanish at home!!!
Students started by building "MAT-MAN" on the carpet as a whole group (see picture below) and seeing how all of our body parts can be drawn using simple shapes. From there they moved into their visual journals where they began to use "Mat-Man" as a reference point to draw themselves.As we moved through the learning task of creating a self-portraits students used mirrors to look at the distinct features that truly make them a unique individual. Through drawing and colouring student's elaborated on their "Mat-Man" drawings to make them more representative of themselves. Students then moved into a final Self-Portrait Art project than will be on display on our bulletin boards for the next few weeks. Before completing this final project students created a visual bulls-eye rubric with their teachers to help establish targets for them to achieve when drawing their self-portraits (See Picture Below). Students enjoyed creating this rubric and were often found checking in with their work half way through to see how they could improve and complete their best work! Finally, in order to add to their final portraits students used literature to explore what they believed to be the most important part of their bodies and why! Below are a few quotes from our writing work about the things the student's believed to be the most important part of themselves: "The most important part of my body is my ears because the help me to hear my mom when she needs me" "The most important part of my body is my heart because it pumps blood through me" "The most important part of my body are my legs because they help me run fast and walk slow" "The most important part of my body is my nose because it helps me breath" "The most important part of my body is my belly button because it make me laugh" "The most important part of my body are my adult teeth because they do not wiggle" Through this multi-step learning task students were able to not only develop their drawing skills but take a a closer look at all their individual attributes that compile together to make them all the wonderfuly unique kids that they are! Next time you are drawing ask to see a drawing of "Mat-Man"
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