Wednesday, November 6, 2013

120- I pulled a small group to do portraits. Their portraits are looking really great for a first grade group. I think this is that whole concept of "Ethic of Excellence" at work.  If you expect high results and you give the students the time to work, you can get high results. Here is just one example. It's a little rough in the details, but he can fix that.  The proportion is excellent.

Pretty awesome for a first grader!

116- The mural group came in to work on the school and the church.  They are learning to layer colored pencils to resemble the bricks.

School #33

We sounded out "Bilingual Center" together. 

Drawing the church from a photograph on the iPad.

Full sized church.

Detail of the church window.

108- A small group came in again and we now have a salon for our community.  It has a counter and chairs for the customers and a chair for the salon worker when she or he calculates the sale.

Exterior of Salon

Interior of salon, with counters and chairs. 

118- My playground group came in again.  We are really moving along now. The children are learning to work together.  It's such a difference since this group first came in.  They have about half of the playground constructed.  They decided to let this one begin the drying process and make the other two parts in separate pieces.  They are afraid of putting too much weight together, as their original monkey bars crumbled as they dried. 

102- kindergarten.  We've been working on self-portraits.  I had them cut out the heads, since the background paper was pretty messy.  They were given glue sticks and their choice of paper and no instructions.  Some kids glued the heads in the middle of the paper.  One child glued her head to the top, like the paper was the body. Two others followed her lead.  I think it's cool that they took different approaches to the portrait lesson.  Next class, I'll give them beautiful stuff to decorate and markers, so if they want to draw more around their bodies or on their shirts, they can.  Then, I'm going to ask if they'd like to share adjectives about each piece, and perhaps we can incorporate writing into the portraits.

Happy little kindergarten faces. 

They look like they're in sleeping bags.

101, preschool.  I had them paint portraits on a large piece of paper.  We're going to go through the same process as the other preschool class and hopefully we'll have a great story to go along with the mural, like 103 came up with.