Kindergarten 100 Year Old Self-Portraits

 

Many kids often don't think of themselves too frequently at the age of 100. The last project was a self-portrait of the students today.  This project, paired with the 100 day of school celebration, challenged students to picture themselves at 100 years old. With their portraits students wrote a description about what they will look like and what they will do at the age of 100. One can't help but to smile when looking and reading at what they have came up with!  

 We discussed hair loss, hair color and wrinkles! Many laughs and surprised reactions to these common occurrences. 

New Years Self-Portraits

We discussed what the term resolution means and students asked themselves what they would do to improve themselves in 2014. Students learned about the basic proportions that make up the face and learned tricks on how to draw facial features. 

K & 1 Dancing Snowmen

Did you ever wonder what snowmen do at night? Well, They get together and dance!! Students were read Snowmen at Christmas (a book from the series Snowmen at Night). Students painted with cotton balls aka snowballs on their stacked circles. We discussed the movement of the body when it dances and how torso moves from side to side. Popsicle sticks were added to show how each snowman strikes their own pose. The snowmen were painted orange and blue to mimic the snowmen in the book and how the street lights can create a beautiful creamsicle glow.