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 Self-Portraits

Students started the New Year out with creating a self-portrait. Students learned that a self-portrait is a drawing, painting or work of art created about themselves; particularly our faces. We also discussed the New Year and the term resolution. We talked about how starting a New Year is a fresh start for many, it can mean setting goals for ourselves to better ourselves. Each student wrote a resolution to be displayed underneath their portraits. They range from helping out mom and dad, to learning something new, to sharing with siblings. These works will be on display for the February open house. 

Pre K Self-Portraits

It's never too early to start studying yourself! 

3 Years Old Self-Portraits

Students responded well to this lesson. We took a round cardboard circle and traced it with a black marker. Then we added two vertical lines for our necks. We then drew a small curved line (like the letter "u") for our noses and two small vertical lines on each side of our nose. Then we added our eyes (a circle within a circle and a dot in the center) and our eye lashes. We could not forget our beautiful smiles! We then used a crayon to color in our faces and eyes with our skin and eye color. Then came the most fun part...we added paint to a tooth brush to "brush on our hair," that was funny! We talked about how important it was to brush our teeth twice a day and to comb long hair.  

Tim Burton inspired?! =)