Thursday, September 26, 2013

118, monolingual second grade- I took half of the class to paint their portraits.  We went over many painting techniques and had a great discussion on the many shades of skin colors and eye colors in our classroom.

112, bilingual self-contained class- The students continued their inquiry about seashells.  I showed them Austin's Butterfly and they practiced observational drawing by drawing the shells. Three of the four students went from wanting to trace the shells to understanding contour line drawing.  I'm really pleased.  I will continue to work with the fourth student, but I'm thrilled that three out of four showed such gains in so little time.

116, bilingual second grade- Students went outside to find natural objects. They drew the objects, wrote about them and created compositions of glued objects.

Students in 102, the monolingual kindergarten, continued their letters and lines drawing. These will be part of the letter book for grades pre-k and k.